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"The goal of politics is never to defeat your opposition as much as it is to provide superior command and better ideas than the opposition." - Jack port Kemp The later 1970s were miserable for America. It had been the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate period, a time of high unemployment, ruinous inflation, gas lines, Communist improvements, and bottomed-out US morale. Within the 1980s everything converted around: "stagflation" finished, and nearly 2 decades of prosperity ensued. The Soviet Union retreated then collapsed. America again thought in itself. And around the world, democratic capitalism was deemed "the end of history". Ronald Reagan's procedures sparked the American renaissance, but the Gipper's leadership is merely area of the story. The monetary theory that underpinned America's success was pioneered by a celebrity professional quarterback converted self-taught intellectual and "bleeding-heart conservative": Jack port Kemp. Kemp's role in a pivotal period in American history is at previous lighted in this first-ever biography, which also offers lessons for the politics of today. Kemp was the congressional champion of supply-side economics - the idea that lowering taxes would foster development. Even today, almost no one advocates a return to a top tax rate of 70 percent. Kemp didn't just struggle the Democratic establishment. He also encouraged his fellow Republicans to be development (not austerity) minded, open their tent to minorities and blue-collar employees, battle poverty and discrimination, as soon as again become "the party of Lincoln". Kemp contacted politics the same way he enjoyed quarterback for the Buffalo Charges: with a refusal to simply accept beat. Yet he also was incapable of personal harm, arguing always on the level of ideas. He viewed opponents as adversaries, not foes, and often cooperated with those to get things done....
