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A Kineño's journey : on family, learning, and public service
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A Kineño's journey : on family, learning, and public service / Lauro F. Cavazos, with Gene B. Preuss.
ISBN
9780896729681
0896729680
Publication
Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2016]
Physical Description
xiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes
Continues: A Kineño remembers : from the King Ranch to the White House. 2006.
Summary
"Story of Lauro Cavazos, former US Secretary of Education, his education, career in education and public service, and family"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Cavazos, Lauro, author. Kineño's journey. Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2016]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 24, 2017
Series
The Grover E. Murray studies in the American Southwest
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Author's note
Prologue
The view from Lauro's Hill
Secretary of education, 1988-1990
After Washington
President of Texas Tech
Educating myself
Peggy, the model of perseverance
Virginia and Tufts
Our family life
Manzanillo
On to Paris and Versailles
Administering a medical school
Alice Williams and our Nantucket journeys
The blizzard of 1978
Nantucket closure
Reflecting on faith and divine guidance
Epilogue: A life well led
Appendices: A Kineño's journey : a historical assessment; Two speeches by Lauro Cavazos.
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