{"product_id":"the-price-of-power-how-mitch-mcconnell-mastered-the-senate-changed-america-and-lost-his-party-9781668005842","title":"The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The year's most anticipated political book.\" --\u003ci\u003ePolitico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing an intimate look at the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the long history of American government, few senators have wielded as much power as Kentucky's Mitch McConnell. That's no accident; he worked his entire life to cultivate his dominance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Power\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning journalist Michael Tackett pulls back the curtain on one of the most influential figures to ever set foot in the American Senate, offering you an intimate, personal view of his life and career. Drawing on thousands of pages of archival materials, letters, and more than 100 interviews with associates, colleagues, and McConnell himself, Tackett pieces together the story of McConnell's early life, his formative battle with polio as a young child, and details his forty-plus-year career as one of the Senate's most impactful leaders. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A lifelong Republican, McConnell was known as a pragmatic moderate legislator when he joined the Senate in 1985. Tackett traces his steady rightward drift, as McConnell's politics evolved with his masterful ability to consolidate and wield power. But such success comes at a cost. The Trump years brought with them the rise of an almost unrecognizable Republican party, suffused with a reactive populism that even McConnell himself would struggle to control. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Featuring expert reporting, unprecedented access, and never-before-published revelations, \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Power\u003c\/i\u003e is an inside portrait of exactly that--what it takes to achieve power, maintain it, deploy it, and, finally, watch it slip out of your hands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Tackett is an award-winning journalist with more than three decades of experience covering national politics, including nine presidential elections. He is currently the Deputy Washington Bureau Chief for the Associated Press. Before that, he was an editor and reporter for \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Washington Bureau Chief for both \u003ci\u003eBloomberg News\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune, \u003c\/i\u003e and National Editor for \u003ci\u003eUS News \u0026amp; World Report\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a recipient of the White House Correspondents Association's Edgar A. Poe Award for National Reporting. His first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Baseball Whisperer, \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of a summer league baseball team in Clarinda, Iowa that helped shape dozens of major league players. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874832158994,"sku":"9781668005842","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a4cf532c-9022-4892-a283-bfb9bec2fce4.jpg?v=1738008064","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-price-of-power-how-mitch-mcconnell-mastered-the-senate-changed-america-and-lost-his-party-9781668005842","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}