Gore: A Political Life

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Regnery Pub., Mar 1, 1999 - Political Science - 384 pages
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Gore: A Political Life sheds revealing light on Al Gore's years at St. Albans, the prep school for Washington's power elite, and Harvard, where he roomed with actor Tommy Lee Jones; his service in Vietnam for the sake of his father's political career; his attending divinity school to "atone for his sins"; the plodding journalist-turned-investigative-reporter, suddenly catapulted into Congress by his political inheritance; his relentless battle for the spotlight on Capitol Hill and the driving ambition that led to his first presidential campaign before he was forty; the Al Gore who has been masked by his famous wooden exterior. It is an emotional - his critics would say hysterical - Al Gore who has written that America is a "dysfunctional civilization" whose abuse of the environment is comparable to the Nazis' genocide against the Jews; and who has, like an Old Testament prophet, visited homeless victims of natural disasters, only to lecture them on the vengeance of global warming.

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Zelnick (Backfire: A Reporters Look At Affirmative Action, Regnery, 1996), a conservative former ABC correspondent, presents a trudging portrayal of Vice President Al Gore, whom pundit Michael Kinsley ... Read full review

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