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The Notebook of an Amateur Politician: (And How He Began the D.C. Subway)

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“In my account of the 1965 election campaign of John Lindsay for Mayor of New York, I relate how Robert Sweet, later a pass judgement on but then a lawyer and Lindsay’s campaign manager, sent me to the Lindsay headquarters at 125th Street in Harlem on the day of the election. When he finished briefing me, Bob pressed a thick wad of $20 bills into my hand, and told me it used to be ‘election day money.’ When I got back to headquarters on the end of the day, I dutifully returned all of the wad. Only later did I learn that I used to be supposed to have spent what had to be spent and pocketed the remainder. Hence my title, The Notebook of an Amateur Politician.” Gilbert Hahn Jr.

The Notebook of an Amateur Politician is the full of life portrayal of a true Washingtonian, Gilbert Hahn Jr, and his life spent on the turbulent heart of Washington, D.C. politics. The chapters describe Hahn’s battles as Chairman of the D.C. City Council to build the D.C. subway system and keep down D.C. real estate taxes, and his work to first resurrect the fortunes, and later to expose the financial scandal, of D.C. General Hospital. Humorous tales of working with former D.C. Mayor Walter Washington, run-ins with “Mayor-for-Life” Marion Barry, and campaigning―as a staunch Republican―for Democratic Mayor Anthony Williams are interwoven with wealthy, poignant snapshots of Jewish life in Washington, stories of military service in Patton’s Third Army, and reminiscences about post-war life as an attorney and Maryland racehorse owner.

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