The price of power How Mitch McConnell mastered the Senate, changed America, and lost his party
Book - 2024
The first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history. Drawing on thousands of pages of archival materials, letters, and more than 100 interviews with associates, colleagues, and McConnell himself, Michael 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.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Biographies
- Published
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New York, NY :
Simon & Schuster
2024
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
- Physical Description
- xiii, 397 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-376) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781668005842
- Foreword
- 1. Polio
- 2. Dean and Mac
- 3. A Changed Man
- 4. Jim Crow South
- 5. Becoming Yankeefied
- 6. The Exercise of Power
- 7. "Antsy as Hell"
- 8. The "Lost Decade"
- 9. "Role Playing"
- 10. "Win or Die Trying"
- 11. Land of Giants
- 12. Research and Destroy
- 13. Mastery of Process
- 14. "First-Class Ass-Kicking"
- 15. "No Substitute for Winning"
- 16. Dream Deferred, Achieved
- 17. The Power of No
- 18. "Anybody … Know How to Make a Deal?"
- 19. "Scalia's Seat"
- 20. Power Base
- 21. "Not Very Smart, Irascible … Despicable … Beyond Erratic"
- 22. "The McConnell Court"
- 23. January 6
- 24. The Fall
- 25. Power
- Epilogue: "The Last Thing You Do"
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index