How Harry Reid Changed the Rules

When he was a kid, Harry Reid seldom left the small town of Searchlight, Nevada, without his parents. But the summer after his brother Dale had graduated from high school, he invited young Harry to join him in Ash Fork, a tiny dot in Arizona along Highway 40. Dale had found work at a gas station in the railroad town near an Indian reservation. Not much was memorable about the town, the railroad, or the people Harry met, but he never forgot one lesson he learned there.

Dale’s girlfriend had...