Al in the family: Gore plays to the base and beyond. (Gazette).
American Prospect, The, December, 2002 by Franke-Ruta, Garance
DOES AL GORE KNOW WHAT he's doing? Close readers of his two new books, The Spirit of Family and Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American Family, cannot help but wonder.
Certainly no other serious politician in America has written so honestly, so refreshingly and so, well, earthily, about the contemporary American family. Nor has any likely presidential candidate ever splashed his name across the front of an art book that opens with a family snapshot of himself, bare-chested, reading Snow White to his three girls. Or a book that, on page 50, displays a shot of a ...
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