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Zusatztext "While McFadden's 180 pages would need to be tripled in length to cover Brown's long career! I have read two other Brown bios and Trailblazer is now the best work available." Informationen zum Autor Chuck McFadden is a veteran AP reporter who covered California politics in Sacramento for many years. He was also assistant to former CA State Superintendent of Public Instruction Wilson Riles. Klappentext “While the details of the governor’s life and career are well known, this book is an invaluable addition to what has been written about him. McFadden’s account of his lifelong intellectual and spiritual growth is detailed and perceptive. As the author points out, this combination of the intellectual, spiritual and political has shaped Brown’s life and explains the contradictions that have long intrigued America.”—Bill Boyarsky, author of Ronald Reagan, His Life and Rise to the Presidency "A thoughtful and enlightening contribution to the literature on one of California's "most idiosyncratic politicians," this book perceptively analyzes the tensions between the spiritual and the pragmatic that have shaped Jerry Brown's approach to, and philosophy of, governance and politics. McFadden vibrantly and accurately portrays the parallel evolution of California's "new/old governor" and the political system which defines him and which he helped define."—Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Sol Price School of Public Policy “If you still wonder if Jerry Brown was born on another planet, Chuck McFadden will set you straight, firmly grounding this political enigma in California’s peculiar, 20th century realities."—Joe Mathews, California editor, Zócalo Public Square "What makes Jerry run? Trailblazer offers a new generation of Californians a fresh and up-to-date look at the many lives, campaigns, and contradictions of their once-was and now-again governor, Jerry Brown—reckless and cautious, spiritual and pragmatic, reformer and status-quo stalwart—in all their chameleon glory."—Mark Paul, co-author, California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It Zusammenfassung Explores the unique persona of one of the most idiosyncratic politicians (Edmund Gerald Brown Jr) in California history. This title provides a portrait of the pugnacious, adept politician who has bucked national trends to become a leader of one of the largest economies in the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: The Comeback Codger 1. Early Years: Politics and Religion 2. Going Statewide: Learning the Ropes and Hunting Headlines 3. The Big Show 4. Romance! Flip-Flops! and Moonbeams 5. Back and Forth: Zen and Politics 6. The Governor-Turned-Mayor and Marriage 7. The Remarkable Election 8. Difficult Choices Afterword Appendix 1: Three Inaugural Addresses Appendix 2: Author's Note on California's Constitution: Bigger! but Not Necessarily Better Notes Bibliography Index ...
