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Publishers Weekly Review

Although published on the heels of many books by 2008 candidates, this latest by former Vice President Gore is distinctly different and doubtless. His candor and focus on details, compared with the mushier messages coming from declared Democrats and Republicans, are emblematic of what our current campaign system has done to meaningful discourse. Gore blames the Bush administration for much that is wrong now in the United States and in the world. He says up front that "a large and growing number of Americans are asking out loud: What has happened to our country? Yet for the most part, Gore speaks his mind with specificity and offers the history lessons, with end notes, of a true believer in research and in the intelligence of voters. His very use of the word reason hearkens to an age of enlightenment, questioning, and understanding that he wishes to renew. . Recommended ofr libraries with a large political science and U.S Government collection. [LJ 06/01/07] (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved All rights reserved.

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Politician and businessman Al Gore was born on March 31, 1948. In 1969, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Harvard College. He represented Tennessee in the House of Representatives from 1977-1985 and the Senate from 1985-1993. He was Vice-President of the United States from 1993-2001. He is currently the president of Current TV, chairman of Generation Investment Management, director on the board of Apple Inc., and senior advisor to Google Inc.

He lectures on the topic of global warming awareness and prevention and starred in the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. He was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their efforts to educate others about climate change and to find ways to counteract it.

(Bowker Author Biography)