Download e-book for iPad: Starting Over: A Political Biography of George Allen by Edward A. Lynch

By Edward A. Lynch

beginning Over strains the awesome political profession of former Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator George Allen. as soon as thought of a probable presidential candidate, Allen grew to become a YouTube sensation after a slip of the tongue. however the Allen tale isn't over and his profession has featured a number of returns from seeming oblivion. the writer presents a balanced examine Allen's successes and screw ups. George Allen's occupation additionally parallels the ups and downs of recent American conservatism. Allen reinvented conservative political motion within the post-Reagan, post-Cold struggle period. the problems on which he had his maximum successes turned the problems that fueled the Republican comeback within the Nineties. In those pages, the reader will study as a lot approximately contemporary American politics as approximately Allen himself.

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