Now with a New Preface and Conclusion: 'Post-Truth: On Donald Trump and the 2016 Election'
Former Vice President Al Gore is chairman of Current TV, serves as chairman of Generation Investment Management, is a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc. and a senior advisor to Google, Inc. Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years. In 2007, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance and An Inconvenient Truth. He and his wife, Tipper, live in Nashville, Tennessee. They have four children and three grandchildren.
Powerful ... His writing represents a decency and an intelligence
in American political thought that has been missing in recent years
-- Nick Rennison * Sunday Times *
Part civics lesson, part political jeremiad, part philosophical
tract, The Assault on Reason reveals an angry, impassioned Al Gore
... This book shows a fiery, throw-caution-to-the winds Al Gore,
who has decided to lay it all on the line with a blistering
assessment of the Bush administration and the state of public
discourse in America * New York Times *
He provides in this book one of the most comprehensive indictments
of the Bush administration that has ever appeared in print * LA
Times *
A lucid, passionately argued book ... Through drawing upon his life
in politics and the expertise of skilled practitioners across a
broad range of disciplines, his clear-thinking, visionary book
packs a powerful punch * Good Book Guide *
As scathing as it is meticulous * Publisher's Weekly *
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