ix, [3], 261, [7] pages, . Illustrations. Index. DJ somewhat worn with edge

ix, [3], 261, [7] pages, . Illustrations. Index. DJ somewhat worn with edge creases. Inscribed by the author (Parker). Inscription reads To Philly Hunn Thank you for come with best regards Bob Parker 6-10-86. Robert Parker, the primary author, was for many years a fixture in the Senate Dining Room, where he was Maitre d'. Richard L. Rashke (born 1936) is an American journalist, teacher and author, who has written nonfiction books, as well as plays and screenplays. He is especially known for his history, Escape from Sobibor, first published in 1982, an account of the mass escape in October 1943 of hundreds of Jewish prisoners from the extermination camp at Sobibor in German-occupied Poland. After working as a journalist, Rashke started pursuing his own topics. His first book, The deacon in search of identity, was about a deacon in the Roman Catholic Church, published by Paulist Press in 1975. He followed the widespread publicity about Karen Silkwood, her death, and the suit which her family brought against her former employer, Kerr-McGee. Her life and activism, and suspicious death, became the subject of his book, The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case, published by Houghton-Mifflin in 1981. The author was befriended by Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey, and worked at the Senate Dining Room from 1964-1975. In the middle of the world of high-power politics, he heard many scandalous secrets firsthand. For thirty-five years, Robert Parker had a uniquely intimate view of wheeling, dealing (and sometimes sinning) on power-hungry Capitol Hill. Born a sharecropper's son, he was befriended by Lyndon Johnson in Washington in the early 1940s. Helped by Johnson and Hubert Humphrey, Parker became maitre d' of the Senate Dining Rood in 1964, a post he held until his retirement in 1975. He moonlighted as a waiter for some of Washington's most influential people at their private parties. He saw and heard a lot (and a lot of what he wasn't supposed to), and it's all in this remarkable book. Full of surprises, Robert Parker's memoirs are the illuminating recollections of a shrewd, observant black man in an unusual, fascinating white world.