The Politician

An Insider’s Account of John Edwards’s Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scan
 by Andrew Young



ISBN-13: 9780312640651
ISBN-10: 031264065X
Price: $29.99
Binding: Hardback
Pub. Date: Jan. 30, 2010
Status: AVAILABLE
Pages: 320
Category: POLITICAL SCIENCE
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Net Priced: N
Carton Quantity: 10

“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.


About the Contributor(s)
After earning a bachelors degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hilland a law degree at the Wake Forest University School of Law, ANDREW YOUNGwas a volunteer for John Edwards’ winning campaign for U.S. Senate. Hired in 1999,Young became Edwards’ longest serving and most trusted aide. He raised more than$10 million for the politician’s various causes and played a key role in Edwards’ effortsto become President of the United States. Now a private citizen, he lives in ChapelHill with his wife Cheri and their three children.

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