| The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore Contributor(s): Maraniss, David (Author), Nakashima, Ellen Y. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743210506 ISBN-13: 9780743210508 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2001 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Political - History | United States - 20th Century - Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads Of State |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2001278764 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.3" W x 8.75" (0.91 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Tennessee |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Maraniss, David: - David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s--Rome 1960; Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History). A Good American Family is his twelfth book. |