Now in a Spanish-language edition: the definitive biography of
Senator Marco Rubio, the youngest Speaker of the Florida Statehouse
and the biggest rising star in the Republican Party. SENATOR MARCO
RUBIO has been called the Michael Jordan of Republican politics and
a crown prince of the Tea Party. He is a political figure who
inspires fierce passions among his supporters-and his detractors.
From his family's immigrant roots to his ascent from small-town
commissioner to the heights of the United States Senate, The Rise
of Marco Rubio traces a classic American odyssey. Rubio's
grandfather was born in a humble thatched-palm dwelling in a sugar
cane-growing region of Cuba, more than fifty years before Rubio's
parents left the island for a better life in Miami. His father
worked as a bartender, his mother as a maid and stock clerk at
Kmart. Rubio was quick on his high school football field, and even
quicker in becoming a major voice on everything from immigration to
the role of faith in public life and one of the great hopes of the
Republican Party. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and documents,
Washington Post reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia shows how Rubio
cultivated a knack for apprenticing himself to the right mentor,
learning the issues, and volunteering for tough political jobs that
made him shine. He also has a way with words and the instinct to
seize opportunities that others don't see. As Mike Huckabee says,
Rubio "is our Barack Obama with substance." The Rise of Marco Rubio
elegantly tells us why. *** THE RISE OF MARCO RUBIO A POLITICIAN IN
THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME A slender, delicate right
shoulder knifed downward; a cane flipped sideways. Nancy Reagan was
crashing. But before the crowd's applause gave way to gasps, Marco
Rubio, his hair parted just so, a valedictorian's smile on his
face, tugged the aging icon toward him. He caught the
ninety-year-old almost parallel to the floor and bound for a
bone-chipping thud. Extraordinary political careers can build
momentum from an accretion of perfect moments, and this was just
one more for Marco Rubio. Rubio's reflexes had only sharpened the
impression that a party looking for heroes had found a figure with
great promise. American politics had never seen anything like him.
A FAMILY THAT FACED THE CHALLENGES OF IMMIGRATION In the summer of
1962 Rubio's Cuban grandfather Pedro Victor asked his bosses for a
vacation, and this time they granted it. And so it was that on
August 31, 1962, he took an incredibly risky step. He boarded Pan
American Airlines Flight 2422 bound for Miami. His troubles began
not long after the plane landed. A LEGISLATOR FULL OF AMBITION In
Marco Rubio's second year at the Florida capital, a committee was
formed to redraw voting district lines. As usual, Rubio's timing
was good and his instincts were spot-on. Redistricting was a
once-in-a-decade ritual, and it presented him with a
once-in-a-decade opportunity. Not yet thirty, he volunteered to
help. In doing so he took the same route he had traveled before,
making himself an apprentice in a good position to impress the
older generation. Volunteering for the task meant substantial face
time with the leaders of the state house. And the leaders noticed
him.
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