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Product Details
Threshold Editions, September 2007
Trade Paperback, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1416525637
ISBN-13: 9781416525639
Description
If Washington politics is Hardball, Ed Gillespie shows how the game is really played!
With a fresh, new insider's perspective, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee draws from lessons learned in more than twenty years of campaign strategy and national policy debate -- most especially from his role at the heart of the historic and groundbreaking 2004 presidential election -- to reveal how the game of politics is played on its highest level. In a frank and engaging narrative, he looks inside the George W. Bush presidency and beyond, to discuss such topics as
- A political code of ethics and playing by the rules
- Successes and failures in campaign planning and execution
- The role of old and new media
- The battle for the Supreme Court
- Hot-button issues
- The future of the GOP -- and how to win right in 2008.
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Browse Inside Winning Right"Well worth reading if you're a political junkie....His book has the distinction of being intelligent, respectful of his opponents, and funny."
-- The Weekly Standard
"Both of us have benefited from Ed Gillespie's sage political advice and his commitment and loyalty. Readers of Winning Right will learn a lot about how politics works in real campaigns, and hopefully get a sense of the best values that motivate people who run for office and the people who work for them."
-- Senator Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee; and former Senate Majority Leader and Republican presidential nominee Robert Dole
"Regardless of your political persuasion, there is much to be gleaned from Ed Gillespie's candid and witty account of his dramatic ascent from Senate parking lot attendant in the U.S. Capitol to powerful chairman and one of the most prominent political strategists in America today."
-- Donna Brazile, former campaign manager for Gore-Lieberman 2000 and author of Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics
