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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - Nonfiction Books | | | Author: | Bill Turque | | Category: | Biography & Memoir | | | Publisher: | Mariner Books | | | | | | ISBN-10: | 0618131604 | | | | | | ISBN-13: | 9780618131600 | | Condition: | -- | | | Format: | Softcover | | | | | | Publication Year: | 2000 | | | | | | Special Attributes: | -- | | | | | | |
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Buy SKU: 30669800Why did Al Gore, after angry opposition to the Vietnam War, submit to the draft? What happened in Vietnam that made him sullen and bitter? After renouncing politics, what set him back on the track mapped out for him? What made him claim (falsely) that he invented the Internet? How closely is he allied with the tobacco industry? What is the real nature of his partnership with Bill Clinton? How was it altered by the Lewinsky affair?
INVENTING AL GORE addresses these issues and more as it unveils the true motivations, ideals, and idiosyncracies of one of Washington's most inscrutable men. Bill Turque, who covered both of Gore's vice presidential campaigns and the Clinton White House, draws on extensive access to Gore's key advisers, friends, and family. He unmasks a man who in private can sing and dance to George Strait's music but in public measures every comment and gesture with legendary caution. As Turque details, Gore's great political albatross -- a lack of empathy -- was hatched during his lonely childhood as the product of ambitious political parents who groomed him for the presidency. Turque's keen analysis also uncovers the genesis of Gore's questionable fund-raising and of a political platform laden with worthy but emotionally safe planks such as bioethics, global warming, and the Internet. In addition, Inventing Al Gore illuminates how personal tragedies have shaped his political life and the remarkable influence that women, from his mother to Naomi Wolf, have had on his career.
INVENTING AL GORE reveals Gore to be one of the most intelligent, idealistic men in Washington, yet one who is repeatedly prone to prevarication, exaggeration, and avoidance of hard issues.Turque offers a meticulously researched narrative filled with colorful, insightful details that sharpen the debate over whether Gore can outgrow his limitations and excel in the office he has prepared for all his life.| Shipping Method | Shipping Timeframe | Shipping Rate | | Other (Budget) | Usually Ships in 1 to 2 business days
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| Synopsis | Using access to Gore's inner circle, this examination of Al Gore by a reporter who has worked for Newsweek sees him as cautious to a fault when in public and always aware of the image he is projecting as a candidate. It reviews issues of fundraising and the credibility of some of his assertions, and it seeks to find just where Gore's true loyalties lie.
| | Size | | Height: | 9.0 in. | | Width: | 6.0 in. | | Thickness: | 1.2 in. | | Weight: | 19.2 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | Why did Al Gore, after angry opposition to the Vietnam War, submit to the draft? What happened in Vietnam that made him sullen and bitter? After renouncing politics, what set him back on the track mapped out for him? What made him claim (falsely) that he invented the Internet? How closely is he allied with the tobacco industry? What is the real nature of his partnership with Bill Clinton? How was it altered by the Lewinsky affair?
INVENTING AL GORE addresses these issues and more as it unveils the true motivations, ideals, and idiosyncracies of one of Washington's most inscrutable men. Bill Turque, who covered both of Gore's vice presidential campaigns and the Clinton White House, draws on extensive access to Gore's key advisers, friends, and family. He unmasks a man who in private can sing and dance to George Strait's music but in public measures every comment and gesture with legendary caution. As Turque details, Gore's great political albatross -- a lack of empathy -- was hatched during his lonely childhood as the product of ambitious political parents who groomed him for the presidency. Turque's keen analysis also uncovers the genesis of Gore's questionable fund-raising and of a political platform laden with worthy but emotionally safe planks such as bioethics, global warming, and the Internet. In addition, Inventing Al Gore illuminates how personal tragedies have shaped his political life and the remarkable influence that women, from his mother to Naomi Wolf, have had on his career.
INVENTING AL GORE reveals Gore to be one of the most intelligent, idealistic men in Washington, yet one who is repeatedly prone to prevarication, exaggeration, and avoidance of hard issues. Turque offers a meticulously researched narrative filled with colorful, insightful details that sharpen the debate over whether Gore can outgrow his limitations and excel in the office he has prepared for all his life.
| | Industry reviews | "...[T]houghtful...a carefully considered appraisal of Gore's career...[that] despite its judicious tone, draws an often damning picture..."
Turque
"Just like its subject, the Gore biography is generally sober, conscientious and thorough."
Austin
"I feel more kindly toward Gore having read this book than I did before. No, Turque has not written a cream-puff biography....What Turque has done, though, is probe the conflict between the public and private man with a subtlety and decency we don't often see these days."
Tomasky
"[Gore] emerges in Turque's study as a three-dimensional figure rather than the caricature that had been so widely accepted (with Gore's own ample assistance) and so assiduously promulgated both by his foes and lazy journalists."
Nelson
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