Book excerpt: "Far From Home" by Lisa Murkowski

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After losing a Republican primary in 2010, Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski – bucking party orthodoxy – ran for re-election with a write-in campaign, and won. That victory, thanks to a diverse coalition of Alaskans, instructed her service as a senator in an increasingly partisan Washington, she writes in her new memoir, "Far From Home: An Alaskan Senator Faces the Extreme Climate of Washington, D.C." (to be published June 24 by Forum Books).

Read an excerpt below, and don't miss Norah O'Donnell's interview with Lisa Murkowski on "CBS Sunday Morning" June 22!