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Everyone knows this kind of politician: a charismatic maverick who rises against the machine and its own ways, but considers he does not have to live a life by the guidelines. Using his experience as a speechwriter, Barton Swaim tells the story of an group of believers who add themselves to the sort of ambitious narcissist - what makes them spend money on these leaders, how these leaders do provide moments of enthusiasm, and then the way they let them down. The Speechwriter is a funny and candid advantages to the world of politics, where press assertions are purposefully nonsensical, grammatical errors are intentional, and better replicate means more words. Through his three years at work of an controversial governor, Swaim paints a family portrait of a guy so principled he'd rather sweating than use state money to pay for air-con, so oblivious he'd wear the same stained t shirt for two weeks, so egotistical he'd belittle his staffers to make himself feel better, and so self-absorbed he never once apologized to his personnel to make his supervision the laughing stock of the country. On the surface, this is actually the story of South Carolina governor Make Sanford's rise and fall. However in the end, it's a merchant account of the extremely human being staffers who go into politics out of conviction and figure out how to survive a broken heart.
