Rough Edges: My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington
by Rogan, James E
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0060580593
- ISBN 13
- 9780060580599
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About This Item
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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- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 602764
- 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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