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Lobbyists. They’re everything that’s wrong about Washington DC. Plying the hallways of power, these operators cut backroom deals and arm-twist politicians. Instead of strengthening democracy, they undercut it by securing favors for corporate clients and foreign dictator paymasters. If that’s your perspective, then veteran lobbyist K. Riva Levinson’s new book will rock your world.
Choosing the Hero: My Improbable Journey and the Rise of Africa’s First Woman President is an engaging blend of personal memoir, Washington exposé, and, most of all, a tribute to a beautiful friendship. Levinson’s writing is raw and revealing. The story, like the author, jumps easily from a convoy in Baghdad to the halls of Capitol Hill. The book opens in 2011, in the dead of an Oslo winter, at a royal affair where the King of Norway is bestowing the Nobel Peace Prize on three remarkable women.
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