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Rough Edges:  My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington

Rough Edges: My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington

Rough Edges:  My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington

Rough Edges: My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington

by Rogan, James E

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New York: ReganBooks/HarperCollins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to previous owner and signed on the free front end page. Closed tear (1/4") on back of d j. . Full number line. Protected in a removable archival cover. . . 352 pages. Jim Rogan was born to a single mother -- a cocktail waitress who was later convicted of welfare fraud; his bartender-father abandoned them both before he was born. After a rough-and-tumble childhood in San Francisco's hardscrabble Mission District -- where he was raised by his colorful extended family -- he became a political junkie at the age of nine, and once received help with his homework from Harry Truman. But Rogan traveled with a tough circle of friends; after years of borderline delinquency he was expelled from high school, became a porn theater bouncer, and then a bartender at a strip joint and a Hell's Angels bar. Along the way, a young Arkansas politician advised him to study law and become a member of a different kind of bar. In time Rogan scrapped his way through college and law school. He was appointed a Los Angeles County DA, prosecuting members of the notorious Crips and Bloods gangs; then became a judge, a state legislator, and finally a congressman from Southern California. And in 1998, as a Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, he found himself prosecuting the impeachment of the President of the United States -- Bill Clinton, the same Arkansas politician who advised him to go into law and politics two decades earlier. <I>Rough Edges</I> is a rarity among Washington tales: full of outrageous stories, wild humor, pull-no-punches candor, and downright fun. Replete with character and characters, and told in Rogan's engaging and unswervingly frank voice, Rogan's story is certainly the most freewheeling -- and perhaps the most honest -- political memoir ever written. .

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Title
Rough Edges: My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington
Author
Rogan, James E
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0060580593
ISBN 13
9780060580599
Publisher
ReganBooks/HarperCollins
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2004
Keywords
BIOGRAPHY, MEMOIRS, LAWYERS, PROFFESIONALS, HOUSE, GOVERNMENT, POLITICS
Bookseller catalogs
Political Science;

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