Synopses & Reviews
After losing the closest American election in years, Al Gore remains a fascinating political figure, a man both revered and reviled. Drawing on documents, letters, and interviews with more than three hundred people, including six lengthy conversations with the vice president, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima look closely at the forces that have shaped Gore's life and career to explore the man behind the contradictory public persona. Beginning with Gore's earliest years -- when this son of a senator was torn between elite Washington and rural Tennessee -- one is struck by the image of a young American prince burdened by expectations of his likely political fate. With a new afterword written after the election, The Prince of Tennessee depicts Gore as an intelligent and competent man whose struggles with self-doubt and insecurity made him one of our least understood presidential candidates.
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"A fine, deep-mine biography...The authors come closer to the core Gore than any other biographies to date." Ben Macintyre, The New York Times Book Review
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"Grounded in strong reporting and honest perception. Sparkles with vignettes drawn from hundreds of interviews." Curtis Wilkie, The Boston Globe
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"Balanced, insightful, and highly readable." Steve Neal, Chicago Sun-Times
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"A great read. The authors do a masterly job of explaining [the Gore] paradox." Dante Chinni, The Christian Science Monitor
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Ben Macintyre The New York Times Book Review A fine, deep-mine biography...The authors come closer to the core Gore than any other biographies to date.
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Dante Chinni The Christian Science Monitor A great read. The authors do a masterly job of explaining [the Gore] paradox.
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Curtis Wilkie The Boston Globe Grounded in strong reporting and honest perception. Sparkles with vignettes drawn from hundreds of interviews.
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Steve Neal Chicago Sun-Times Balanced, insightful, and highly readable.
Synopsis
After losing the closest American election in years, Al Gore remains a fascinating political figure, a man both revered and reviled. Drawing on documents, letters, and interviews with more than three hundred people, including six lengthy conversations with the vice president, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima look closely at the forces that have shaped Gore's life and career to explore the man behind the contradictory public persona. Beginning with Gore's earliest years -- when this son of a senator was torn between elite Washington and rural Tennessee -- one is struck by the image of a young American prince burdened by expectations of his likely political fate. With a new afterword written after the election, The Prince of Tennessee depicts Gore as an intelligent and competent man whose struggles with self-doubt and insecurity made him one of our least understood presidential candidates.
Synopsis
An expertly reported and insightful biography of Al Gore from Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss. After losing one of the closest American elections in years, Al Gore remains a fascinating political figure, a man both revered and reviled. Drawing on documents, letters, and interviews with more than three hundred people, including six lengthy conversations with the vice president, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima look closely at the forces that have shaped Gore's life and career to explore the man behind the contradictory public persona.
Beginning with Gore's earliest years--when this son of a senator was torn between elite Washington and rural Tennessee--one is struck by the image of a young American prince burdened by expectations of his likely political fate. With a new afterword written after the election, The Prince of Tennessee depicts Gore as an intelligent and competent man whose struggles with self-doubt and insecurity made him one of our least understood presidential candidates.
Synopsis
The Al Gore who comes to life in these pages is an intelligent and competent man, struggling with self-doubt and insecurity that explain his bureaucratic obsession with facts and his tendency to exaggerate his accomplishments.
Description
After losing the closest American election in years, Al Gore remains a fascinating political figure, a man both revered and reviled. Drawing on documents, letters, and interviews with more than three hundred people, including six lengthy conversations with the vice president, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima look closely at the forces that have shaped Gore's life and career to explore the man behind the contradictory public persona. Beginning with Gore's earliest years -- when this son of a senator was torn between elite Washington and rural Tennessee -- one is struck by the image of a young American prince burdened by expectations of his likely political fate. With a new afterword written after the election, The Prince of Tennessee depicts Gore as an intelligent and competent man whose struggles with self-doubt and insecurity made him one of our least understood presidential candidates.
About the Author
David Maraniss, an associate editor at The Washington Post, is the author of critically acclaimed best-selling books on Bill Clinton, Vince Lombardi, Vietnam and the sixties, Roberto Clemente, and the 1960 Rome Olympics. He won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Clinton, was part of a Post team that won the 2007 Pulitzer for coverage of the Virginia Tech tragedy, and has been a Pulitzer finalist three other times, including in the nonfiction history category for They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967. Maraniss is a fellow of the Society of American Historians and a member of Biographers International Organization. He lives in Washington, D.C. and Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife, Linda. They have two grown children and three granddaughters.
Table of Contents
ContentsONE The Long Road
TWO Prince of the Fairfax
THREE Lost and Found at Harvard
FOUR The Tumultuous Summer
FIVE The War at Home
SIX The Obligation
SEVEN Private Gore
EIGHT The "Sordid Crusade"
NINE A Summer's Tale
TEN The Sting
ELEVEN Other Lives
TWELVE The Son Shall Rise
THIRTEEN The Information Man
FOURTEEN Bo Loses Nancy
FIFTEEN Hubris Alert
SIXTEEN Reporting Gore
SEVENTEEN Blown to Smithereens
EIGHTEEN The New World War
NINETEEN Tipper's Everyday Life
TWENTY Two Guys
TWENTY-ONE Being There
EPILOGUE: The Struggle WithinNote on Sources
Acknowledgments
Index