The Heroic and the Notorious: U.S. Senators from Illinois

An Uncertain Tradition: U.S. Senators from Illinois, 1818-2003, published in 2003, provides biographical and political portraits of the state’s senators, including Stephen A. Douglas, Richard Oglesby, John A. Logan, Everett Dirksen, Adlai Stevenson III, Paul Simon, and Richard Durbin. The second edition will bring the book up to date, with new material on Paul Simon, Richard Durbin, and Peter Fitzgerald, as well as completely new sections on Roland Burris, Barack Obama, and Illinois’s newest senator, Mark Kirk. To present this new material, Robert E. Hartley has given Durbin his own chapter--20. A Leader Among Democrats--and created a new chapter 21, ＂An Extended Period of Unrest,＂ that covers Fitzgerald, Obama, Burris, and Kirk.

, David Kenney served in the cabinet of Illinois Governor James Thompson and is a professor emeritus of political science at SIUC. His books include A Political Passage: The Career of Stratton of Illinois and (with Robert E. Hartley) Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters (both published by SIU Press). Robert E. Hartley is the author of a number of books for SIU Press, including Paul Powell of Illinois: A Lifelong Democrat and Paul Simon: The Political Journey of an Illinois Original. He was a journalist for Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers in Illinois from 1962 to 1979 and also served as executive editor of the Toledo Blade and as publisher of the Journal-American in Bellevue, Washington.,