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Simon & Schuster
June 2012
On Sale: June 19, 2012
291 pages
ISBN: 1451675453
EAN: 9781451675450
Kindle: B006BAD8HU
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Non-Fiction Biography
SENATOR MARCO RUBIO has been called the Michael Jordan of
Republican politics and a crown prince of the Tea Party. He
is a political figure who inspires fierce passions among his
supporters—and his detractors.
From his family’s
immigrant roots to his ascent from small-town commissioner
to the heights of the United States Senate, The Rise of
Marco Rubio traces a classic American odyssey. Rubio’s
grandfather was born in a humble thatched-palm dwelling in a
sugar cane–growing region of Cuba, more than fifty years
before Rubio’s parents left the island for a better life in
Miami. His father worked as a bartender, his mother as a
maid and stock clerk at Kmart. Rubio was quick on his high
school football field, and even quicker in becoming a major
voice on everything from immigration to the role of faith in
public life and one of the great hopes of the Republican
Party.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews and
documents, Washington Post reporter Manuel
Roig-Franzia shows how Rubio cultivated a knack for
apprenticing himself to the right mentor, learning the
issues, and volunteering for tough political jobs that made
him shine. He also has a way with words and the instinct to
seize opportunities that others don’t see. As Mike Huckabee
says, Rubio “is our Barack Obama with substance.” The
Rise of Marco Rubio elegantly tells us why.
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