"The greatest political saga, the one that has it all, that gets
to the real heart of American politics, is the John Edwards
story... This isn't just politics, it's literature. It's the great
American novel, the kind that isn't written anymore." --Michael
Wolff on John Edwards's trajectory, on "VanityFair.com"
The underside of modern American politics -- raw ambition,
manipulation, and deception -- are revealed in detail by Andrew
Young's riveting account of a presidential hopeful's meteoric rise
and scandalous fall. Like a non-fiction version of "All the King's
Men," "The Politician" offers a truly disturbing, even shocking
perspective on the risks taken and tactics employed by a man
determined to rule the most powerful nation on earth.
Idealistic and ambitious, Andrew Young volunteered for the John
Edwards campaign for Senate in 1998 and quickly became the
candidate's right hand man. As the senator became a national star,
Young's responsibilities grew. For a decade he was this
politician's confidant and he was assured he was 'like family." In
time, however, Young was drawn into a series of questionable
assignments that culminated with Edwards asking him to help conceal
the Senator's ongoing adultery. Days before the 2008 presidential
primaries began, Young gained international notoriety when he told
the world that he was the father of a child being carried by a
woman named Rielle Hunter, who was actually the senator's mistress.
While Young began a life on the run, hiding from the press with his
family and alleged mistress, John Edwards continued to pursue the
presidency and then the Vice Presidency in the future Obama
administration.
Young had been the senator's closest aide and most trusted
friend. He believed that John Edwards could be a great president,
and was assured throughout the cover-up that his boss and friend
would ultimately step forward to both tell the truth and protect
his aide's career. Neither promise was kept. Not only a moving
personal account of Andrew Young's political education, THE
POLITICIAN offers a look at the trajectory which made John Edwards
the ideal Democratic candidate for president, and the hubris which
brought him down, leaving his career, his marriage and his dreams
in ashes.
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