Gore: A Political Life - Softcover

Zelnick, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089526241X ISBN 13: 9780895262417

Publisher: Regnery Publishing, 2000

This insightful and probing biography is the first to fully evaluate Al Gore's evolving political career. With frontline Washington experience, first-rate contacts, and unparalleled credibility, Zelnick delves into the following topics:
-- Gore's hypocrisy on tobacco, from a beneficiary of tobacco money to a vocal anti-tobacco politician
-- The true costs of Gore's "cosmic" environmentalism, and is it scientifically sound?
-- His intimate connection with the Chinese campaign contribution scandal
-- His flip-flopping of key issues, such as abortion, to gain party support and PAC money.

Gore: A Political Life is sure to generate nationwide media attention -- especially when Gore heats up his campaign for the 2000 presidential election.

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Summary of Gore: A Political Life
"This is a first-rate piece of even-handed reporting. With the Gore candidacy now a foregone conclusion, it should be required reading for those who care about Campaign 2000. Fortunately, it's also a great read." - Ted Koppel, Anchor and Managing Editor, ABC's NIGHTLINE

"This is the book ABC didn't want Bob Zelnick to write. What a loss it would have been if he had complied. GORE: A POLITICAL LIFE commands attention." - Stephen Hess, The Brookings Institution

It is always better to know all we can about a presidential candidate before he is elected rather than find out afterward, as the Clinton troubles demonstrate so clearly. Mr. Gore has been on the political scene in Washington for most of his life, most recently in 8 years of stage-managed events at the White House. We need to know more, much more. Bob Zelnick starts that examination. Gore accolytes will not appreciate all they find here." - Ken Bode, former moderator, PBS's Washington Week in Review

Finally, the comprehensive look at Vice President Al Gore. GORE: A POLITICAL LIFE charts the political career of one of the top contendors in the 2000 presidential race.

Here we see Al Gore, the plodding journalist-turned-investigative-reporter, suddenly catapulted into Congress by his political inheritance. We also see his relentless battle for the spotlight on Capitol Hill and the driving ambition that led to his first presidential campaign before he was forty.

And we see the Al Gore who until now has been masked by his famous wooden exterior.

Zelnick's Gore is a man of contradictions: highly principled, yet willing to cut political deals on the issues he cares about most--including the environment. He is a self-described "screaming moderate" who is also a man with a sense of blood-feud against his political opponents, or even apolitical scientists who disagree with his policies on "global warming." He is a family man of unquestioned virtue whose political benefactor, Bill Clinton, has provided a presidency of unprecedented personal squalor.

More than stunning revelations, GORE: A POLITICAL LIFE is a swiftly readable American drama of a new generation coming to power-and of the man poised to be America's next president.

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