Cross to Bear

The inside story of America's most watched election of 1991, the Louisiana governor's race of David Duke, Edwin Edwards & Buddy Roemer--a three-way contest whose issues & personalities foretold the 1992 American presidential campaign. The author, a veteran political journalist & author of THE LAST HAYRIDE (1984), uses dramatic, often hilarious anecdotes & insightful analysis to bring to life the cutting issues of racial discrimination, corruption in government & to the growing phenomenon of voter rage. CROSS TO BEAR reads like a fast-moving novel in developing the characters of David Duke, who tries to shake his racist & anti-Semitic past while inciting the voters' anger & raising millions of dollars; of the driven but aloof Buddy Roemer, who struggles to reconcile his stubborn idealism, with his dread of politics; & of the scandal-plagued Edwin Edwards, notorious gambler & womanizer, politicking for redemption in one last, improbable comeback bid. Along the way, Maginnis introduces the reader to the henchman, bagmen, Klansmen & girlfriends who make politics fascinating in America's last banana republic. Available in November.Maginnis, John is the author of 'Cross to Bear' with ISBN 9780961413828 and ISBN 0961413824.