BYRD OF LEGISLATIVE HALL

by Robert Lee Byrd

as told to Celia Cohen

paperback / $19.95 / isbn: 978-1-58790-502-5 / 283 pages /6” x 9" / photographs 

politics

ABOUT THE BOOK

Byrd of Legislative Hall details more than 40 years of Robert Byrd’s life as a Delaware legislator and lobbyist. He has been in the know on just about every deal that has gone down in  the back rooms and corridors of power in Delaware during those years. Not only has Byrd seen it all, he has seen who was in on it pulling the strings. He knows how to maneuver a governor into not vetoing a bill. He knows the reason people in Delaware can ride motorcycles with the helmet on their motorcycle and not their head. He knows why there were no Budweiser Clydesdales in a parade when Joe Biden was elected vice president.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert Byrd, Chief Executive Officer of the The Byrd Group, LLC, has spent a lifetime in Delaware politics, starting with his first election to the House of Representatives in 1974. He served two terms and chaired the Labor and Commerce Committee and was Majority Whip.  After leaving the state legislature, he worked as vice president, chief lobbyist, and chief financial officer for the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce from 1979 to 1988.

“Bobby Byrd has spent a lifetime in Delaware politics, starting with his first election to the House of Representatives in 1974, through his decades with the State Chamber and the Wood-Byrd Group, up to his current-day perch as ‘Byrdie,’ the most influential lobbyist in the First State.” —U. S. Senator Chris Coons

“There is nothing better than an informed insider’s view of politics. Bob Byrd, Delaware’s legendary insider, delivers all.—Rich Heffron, Retired Delaware State Chamber of Commerce President