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"""As a child, Andy Maguire wanted to grow up and ""make a difference."" Despite only six years in Congress, he did just that, laboring passionately for six decades in the vineyards of the public interest—a frayed liberal concept that Maguire's eventful life story can help revive."" —Jonathan Alter, author of His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life and The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies ""In an early phase of his career, Andy Maguire served at the United States Mission to the United Nations. There he impressed all who knew him with his idealism, passion, energy, and dogged determination, all fired by a sharp intellect and all in the name of the public good."" — Ambassador Donald F. McHenry, former Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations; Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy, Georgetown University"

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Michael Takiff is the author of A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him (Yale University Press), awarded First Prize, Biography/Autobiography, at the Los Angeles Book Festival. His previous book, Brave Men, Gentle Heroes: American Fathers and Sons in World War II and Vietnam (William Morrow), was named a Washington Post “Critics’ Pick.” His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Salon, The Nation, CNN.com, and HuffingtonPost. Michael H. (Mike) Levin holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Oxford, and Harvard Law. He served with the National Labor Relations Board, as top appellate counsel for the Department of Labor’s Solicitor’s Office for Occupational Safety and Health, and as deputy director of a cabinet-level Carter administration task force convened to reform OSHA. Working with Andy Maguire, Mike designed multiple policy initiatives that meshed with Andy’s interests, including a bill to reform the Guaranteed Student Loan Program, legislation that for the first time advocated income-based loan repayment. He continued as fellow with, then consultant to, the Senate Judiciary Committee, then chaired by Senator Ted Kennedy, where his colleagues included Stephen Breyer (later justice of the Supreme Court) and Kenneth Feinberg (later head of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund).

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