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Confessions of a Political Hitman
Stephen Marks
My Secret Life of Scandal, Corruption, Hypocrisy and Dirty Attacks That Decide Who Gets Elected
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February 2008
On Sale: January 22, 2008
416 pages ISBN: 1402208545 EAN: 9781402208546 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The most influential people in a political race aren't the
campaign managers, the strategists or even the candidates
themselves. In fact, you won't even find them on a
campaign's list of official members or volunteers. Enter the world of the political hitman. Few know that these
operatives exist, and campaigns go to great effort to
distance themselves from the people who dig up their dirt.
But political hitmen wield a secretly powerful position in
today's American politics, where scandals derail campaigns
and negative campaigning decides who gets elected and who
doesn't. For the past twelve years, Stephen Marks has worked silently
behind the scenes as one of the country's top opposition
researchers: a political hitman and an assassin of
reputations. Confessions of a Political Hitman is Marks's
intensely personal and explosive story through more than a
decade in the underbelly of American political campaigns. From his early days in politics through his rapid movement
into the secret world of opposition research, Marks
discovers a talent for digging up dirt and uncovering
political liabilities. His work involves a wide scope of
American politics, from state governments to presidential
elections to the Republican Revolution. But the exciting
work soon leads to disillusionment as candidates he believed
in turn out to be worse than expected, and hypocrisy abounds
on both sides of the political fence. Eventually Marks finds
himself living in the shadows, both politically and
personally, and searching for escape. In Confessions of a Political Hitman, Marks reveals the
fascinating and incredible details of what really goes on
behind the scenes in American campaigning-including the
political realities behind the campaigns, careers and attack
ads of some of Washington's heavy hitters, including George
W. Bush, John Kerry, Jack Abramoff and countless others. Confessions of a Political Hitman is one man's story about
secrets, lies, hypocrisy and influence-painting a troubling
picture of whom we elect and how they get elected.
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