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Mr. Loudspeaker! Denny Hastert is one of the very most powerful men in America-and yet chances are you know little or little or nothing about him. And Denny Hastert desires it this way. Not because he has anything to hide, but because he doesn't care about who provides the credit, he just needs to complete the job for the American people.In Loudspeaker: Lessons from 30 Years of Instruction and Politics, Denny Hastert breaks his silence to share a impressive American report: of how he grew up among the domains of North Illinois, made a name for himself as a higher school and collegiate wrestler, became a higher school wrestling and soccer instructor and civics educator...and finally found himself teaching, and studying, civics in the most crucial forum on the globe: in america Congress as Loudspeaker of the home, the third most powerful man in federal government. Loudspeaker is a genuine Mr. Smith Would go to Washington story, filled with lived-in wisdom, funny anecdotes, and upright talk about how are you affected in the "smoke-filled" rooms of congressional vitality. Along the way, you'll learn:

The magic formula of winning in politics: under-promise and over-produce (the reverse of what most politicians do)
• The Hastert method: Build a team, leave the limelight to others, be genuine, be fair, and stick to your objectives as tenaciously as a fullback hammering at the goal series
• Lessons from wrestling: there's no one at fault but yourself if you get pinned
• The impact of September 11-or actually, the non-shock: how Loudspeaker Hastert stored Congress running well during the crisis
• How the Vatican could never find time to get the Congressional Medal of Independence that was voted for the pope-until it became clear that then-President Clinton wouldn't normally be awarding it
• Loudspeaker Hastert's agenda for the next Congress

Denny Hastert grew up in the rear of a feed truck but still remembers, fondly, a boyhood spent of hard work and high dreams, of harvesting hay and of residing in circumstances of upstanding, well-meaning people. That same type of down home grit and conviction, idealism, and opinion in the goodness of America makes Loudspeaker one of the very most refreshing, exciting, and enlightening politics books of the entire year.