Piety & Power: Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House Audiobook (Free)
- Kaleo Griffith
- 11 h 31 min
- HarperAudio
- 2019-09-24
Summary:
A uncovering, in-depth biography of Mike Pence, probably the most secretive and ingratiating vice president in modern history, from a reporter with remarkable gain access to.
No journalist has covered Mike Pence for for as long or as closely as Tom LoBianco. The seasoned politics reporter was at the initial campaign rally governor Pence held in his hometown of Columbus, Indiana. He was there when Pence returned to Washington as Donald Trump’s vice chief executive. Drawing on his deep ties both within the Beltway and in about Piety & Power: Mike Pence as well as the Taking from the White colored House Indiana condition politics, as well as reams of analysis and deep usage of the vice president and his personnel, LoBianco gives a revealing portrait from the devout Christian who surprised many of his closest supporters when he joined the marketing campaign and became among the strongest champions of Donald Trump. He also explores the rumors-much debated inside the Beltway and among pundits in the media-surrounding the Vice President’s ambitions to achieve success as well as ‘overthrow’ Trump.
LoBianco dissects Pence’s entire political lifestyle, from his detours in the ’90s, to his fast ascension through the initial decade from the twenty-first hundred years, to the White House, and provides an inside accounts of how Pence nearly crashed and burned his career while governor, and then miraculously rise from your ashes because of the unlikely election of Trump. He also provides rare look in the ‘shadow federal government’ Pence has built-a traditional machine at Trump’s call for now, but one that could just like easily step in if Trump is removed from office.
Piety & Power slashes to the core of the country’s most enigmatic politician, and unearths new, important, and fascinating anecdotes about Pence’s faith, his relationship to Karen Pence, his bizarre, obsequious romantic relationship with Trump, his deeply buried character, his ascent to power under John Boehner, and his presidential aspirations and plans for America’s future.
Through the explosive revelations of the Russia investigation to the sea change affecting the Republican party and its own direction under Trump, it is vital that Americans learn about the person who could ascend to the Oval Office. Piety & Power provides insights and answers since it sheds light on this ambitious Midwestern politician, his past, and his feasible future.
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