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"I've learned that the storyplot of an nation's success, and the success of every one folks, is a gradual awakening to the ageless value of the long game." In Oct 1984, a hard-charging Kentucky politician waited excitedly for Leader Ronald Reagan to reach at a presidential rally in Louisville. Amid a tough Senate plan, the young Republican hoped Reagan's endorsement would give a much-needed boost to his plan. Alas, when Reagan finally stepped to the mike, he smiled for the public and declared, "I'm pleased to be here with my buddy, Mitch O'Donnell." That was barely Mitch McConnell's first setback - and definately not his last. But as he learned while operating his initial campaign for high school student body leader, you don't have to be typically the most popular, most athletic, or even luckiest child to win. You merely need to run the best plan. So he swallowed hard, put his brain down, and held going. Four weeks later he triumphed in his Senate couch, beginning a storied job that would eventually lead to his becoming the Senate bulk leader. The Long Game is the candid, behind-the-scenes memoir of a man famous for his discretion. He tells how his mother helped him defeat polio by leading him through long, aching exercises every day for two years. He talks about how his daddy taught him the importance of standing up to bullies, even if it meant taking the casual punch. And he uncovers what he really considers the rivalry between the Senate and the House; about the players and the stakes included when a band of political opportunists attempted to hijack the Tea Party activity; and about key statistics such as Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Harry Reid. He tells the inside account of the struggle against Obamacare and talks about the real causes of the long-term gridlock, his ongoing attempts to restore the united states Senate, and what ordinary citizens have a right to anticipate from Washington. In today's atmosphere of impatience and instant gratification, McConnell still believes the founders realized best when they instituted a authorities with assessments and balances. As he writes, "In the long run, the goal isn't a perfectly operating congressional machine or a party without blemish or inner turmoil. The goal is to allow the country to work out its differences readily and energetically, self-assured that the organizations the founders still left us can handle accommodating the disputes and disagreements that occur in a land as big and diverse and available as ours."