Description
| Product ID: | 9781859848036 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Al Gore |
| Subtitle: | A User’s Manual |
| Authors: | Author: Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St Clair |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, History of the Americas, History, Centrist democratic ideologies, Political structures: democracy, History of the Americas, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Political structures: democracy, USA |
| Description: | Al Gore distills in his single person the disrepair of Liberalism in America today, and almost every unalluring feature of the Democratic Party. What’s his real political record? This is the first unsparing look at the man whom his parents raised from birth to be president of the United States. Inside these pages, you will find: • How Al Gore and his father got on the payroll of one of America’s most ruthless tycoons, Armand Hammer • How Al Gore has relentlessly exploited his sister’s death and son’s accident for personal political advantage • How Al Gore violated the most basic journalistic ethics by helping the cops run a sting operation on a black politician in Nashville • How Al Gore played midwife to the MX missile • How Al Gore became a soul brother of Newt Gingrich • How Al Gore race-baited Jesse Jackson and introduced George Bush to Willie Horton • How Al Gore shopped his vote in support of the Gulf War to get prime-time coverage for his speech • How Al Gore pushed Clinton into destroying the New Deal • How Al Gore plotted to stop Democrats from recapturing Congress in 1996 in order to keep his rival Dick Gephard from becoming Speaker of the House • How Al Gore leached campaign from nearly every corporate lobbyist in DC, and broke pledge after pledge to protect the environment |
| Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
| Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2000-09-17 |
