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The maverick (and very funny) governor of Colorado says his storyline, from early reduction to college on the 10-season plan, to amazing business and later politics success. In just over ten years, John Hickenlooper has truly gone from a craft-brew entrepreneur to mayor of Denver to governor of Colorado, hailed by many politics analysts, The New York Times, and Fox News alike as a solid contender to be another vice president. It really is an unlikely story of success, quintessentially American yet absolutely exceptional. In The Reverse of Woe, Hickenlooper says his own storyline of persistence and daring, from business to politics, in his singularly pointed and often entertaining words. After taking a decade to graduate from Wesleyan School, Hickenlooper found himself let go from his first job in the essential oil industry. Lacking each day job, he rented an area in another of Denver's sketchiest neighborhoods and opened up a brew pub. Honest, likable, and functional, Hickenlooper turned out to be a natural at owning a restaurant; the pub was an enormous success and performed too much to revitalize a struggling neighborhood. In 15 years he blossomed from a small-business owner into a millionaire at the helm of an string of pubs in Denver. He was such an influential person in the city that he acted on the encouragement of many and ran for mayor, essentially on a lark. And then he won. So started an eight-year run among the most creative and successful mayors in america. Hickenlooper doubled down on his politics career by jogging for Colorado governor this year 2010, which he also won and then won again. He has tackled a host of pressing and volatile issues in a true battleground status: immigration, fracking, capital abuse, guns, the Affordable Health care Act, same-sex marriage, legalized marijuana. Over and over his supervision has persuaded ideologically opposed constituencies to acknowledge a middle way and progress - all while interacting with a tragic series of wildfires, "biblical" floods, shootings, and the assassination of an cabinet member. On display throughout is the uncommon candidness that has made him not only wildly popular every step of just how but amazingly successful at getting things done. Cowritten with journalist and cabinet member Maximillian Potter, The Reverse of Woe is a brand new - and relaxing - viewpoint on our politics landscape in one of its brightest growing stars.
