Michael Tackett The Price of Power recensie, review en informatie Mitch McConnell biografie, de Amerikaans politicus en senator van de Republikeinse Partij voor Kentucky. Op 29 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Uitgever Simon & Schuster de biografie van Mitch McConnell. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de politieke biografie is nog niet verkrijgbaar.
Michael Tackett The Price of Power Mitch McConnell biografie recensie en review
- “Here is the story of arguably the most consequential leader of the United States Senate in American history. Drawing on remarkable access to Mitch McConnell and to the senator’s lifetime of papers, Michael Tackett has given us a clear-eyed account of a lawmaker and a politician who, for better or for worse, has fundamentally shaped the way we live now.” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer)
The Price of Power
How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party
- Auteur: Michael Tackett (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: biografie
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
- Verschijnt: 29 oktober 2024
- Omvang: 400 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $32,50
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de biografie van de Amerikaanse politicus Mitch McConnell
The first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing an intimate look at the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history.
In the long history of American government, few senators have wielded as much power as Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell. That’s no accident; he worked his entire life to cultivate his dominance.
In The Price of Power, award-winning journalist Michael Tackett pulls back the curtain on one of the most influential figures to ever set foot in the American Senate, offering you an intimate, personal view of his life and career. Drawing on thousands of pages of archival materials, letters, and more than 100 interviews with associates, colleagues, and McConnell himself, Tackett pieces together the story of McConnell’s early life, his formative battle with polio as a young child, and the teenage infatuation with politics that persisted through his four decades in the Senate.
A lifelong Republican, McConnell was known as a pragmatic moderate legislator when he joined the Senate in 1985. Tackett details his steady rightward drift, as McConnell’s politics evolved with his masterful ability to consolidate and wield power. But such success comes at a cost. The Trump years brought with them the rise of an almost unrecognizable Republican party, suffused with a reactive populism that even McConnell himself would struggle to control.
Featuring expert reporting, unprecedented access, and never-before-published revelations, The Price of Power is required reading for anyone interested in understanding one of America’s most influential legislators and the inner workings of our government.