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The Politician

An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down

by Andrew Young
Kevin Foley
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Like a nonfiction version of All the King's Men, The Politician offers a truly disturbing, even shocking, perspective on the risks taken and tactics employed by a man determined to rule the most powerful nation on earth.


Idealistic and ambitious, Andrew Young volunteered for the John Edwards campaign for Senate in 1998 and quickly became the candidate's right-hand man. As the senator became a national star, Young's responsibilities grew. For a decade he was this politician's confidant, and he was assured he was "like family." In time, however, Young was drawn into a series of questionable assignments that culminated with Edwards asking him to help conceal the senator's ongoing adultery. Days before the 2008 presidential primaries began, Young gained international notoriety when he told the world that he was the father of a child being carried by a woman named Rielle Hunter, who was actually the senator's mistress. While Young began a life on the run, hiding from the press with his family and alleged mistress, John Edwards continued to pursue the presidency and then the vice presidency in the future Obama administration.


Young had been the senator's closest aide and most trusted friend. He believed that John Edwards could be a great president and was assured throughout the cover-up that his boss and friend would ultimately step forward to both tell the truth and protect his aide's career. Neither promise was kept.


Not only is The Politician a moving personal account of Andrew Young's political education, but it also offers a look at the trajectory that made John Edwards the ideal Democratic candidate for president and the hubris that brought him down, leaving his career, his marriage, and his dreams in ashes.

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    February 15, 2010

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      • ISBN: 9781400196500
      • File size: 327402 KB
      • Duration: 11:22:05

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      John Edwards might have been president, but, like Icarus, he flew too high and went down in flames. Author Andrew Young is the disgruntled Edwards aide whose greatest sin was blind loyalty. As Edwards's friend and go-to guy during his campaigns for the presidency and vice presidency, Young was so outrageously devoted that he pretended to be the father of Edwards's illegitimate child. Narrator Kevin Foley tries to portray Young as the sad-sack hero of the book, but in truth Young is almost as unlikable as Edwards because he lacked the courage to do the right thing. Foley sounds believable as politician Edwards and plaintive and pathetic as Young. Overall, Foley's skillful performance makes the story of the sad, sick world of politics impossible to turn off. M.S. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

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