Enabler’s Revenge
David Runciman: John Edwards, 25 March 2010
The Politician: An Insider’s Account of John Edwards’s Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down
by Andrew Young.
Thomas Dunne, 301 pp., $24.99, January 2010,978 0 312 64065 1 Show More
by Andrew Young.
Thomas Dunne, 301 pp., $24.99, January 2010,
Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House
by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.
Viking, 448 pp., £25, January 2010,978 0 670 91802 7 Show More
by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.
Viking, 448 pp., £25, January 2010,
“... Young catches sight of Edwards opening the door of his beat-up Buick and picking up the old Diet Coke can that falls out to dispose of it in the trash. Not only is this a rich man who drives an ordinary car, but someone who deals with his own rubbish rather than leaving it for others to take care of! By the time Young discovers that Edwards has got BMWs and ... ”