Ruth Harkin memoir shows wit, retrospection of pathbreaking Iowan who…

When I pulled up to the Harkin home in Cumming to interview Ruth Harkin, a wave of nostalgia washed over me. It’s where Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin grew up and it reminded me of the home of my long-gone aunt and uncle who lived down the gravel road from us in “Dogpatch,” a semi-rural area between Des Moines and Johnston.

That’s where I grew up in the…