Lessons and Legacies: Farewell Addresses from the SenateThis remarkable collection of original personal essays by the thirteen U. S. senators retiring in 1996 is a historic and intimate look into how our government works and isn't't working today. Not in our lifetimes have so many senators voluntarily left office all at once., among them our most able and distinguished legislators. Written in the spirit of Dwight D. Eisenhower's historic farewell address of 1961, these essays draw on the personal