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The Party's Over

How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat

by Charlie Crist
Ellis Henican
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Charlie Crist, the former Republican governor of Florida, spent years in the party’s inner circle. In this no-holds-barred memoir, he shows why he switched sides and became a Democrat.
After serving as a Republican governor—one who was on the short list for the vice presidency in 2008—Charlie Crist made headlines when he decided to run for the U.S. Senate as an Independent. He was on the front page again when he endorsed President Obama in 2012 and spoke at the Democratic National Convention—and yet again when he officially joined the Democratic Party later that year. In The Party’s Over, he’ll make even more news when he reveals:
  • The inside story of his 2010 Senate primary campaign against Marco Rubio, where he learned exactly how vicious the Republican leadership can be.
  • His journey from inner circle to persona non grata, thanks to his literal embrace of President Obama.
  • His very frank opinions on Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, and other top-tier Republicans.
  • Why he believes that Democrats have the right vision for Florida and the nation. • What he’s learned as a member of both parties and why he remains convinced that the two-party system can still work—with the right leadership.
    • Rather than just rehashing his career, in this book Crist offers a focused indictment of the failings of the Republican Party, naming names and identifying where things went wrong. The Party’s Over is as far from “politics as usual” as you can get.

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      February 4, 2014

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        • ISBN: 9780698148666

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      • English

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      • Kirkus

        December 15, 2013
        With the assistance of Henican (co-author, with Dwight Gooden: Doc, 2013, etc.), the former Republican governor of Florida explains why he is now a Democrat. Echoing the words of Ronald Reagan, Crist told the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, "I didn't leave the Republican Party. It left me." Many Republicans thought Crist's betrayal began about four years earlier. At a rally in support of the new president's economic stimulus package, Crist not only appeared on the same stage as Obama, but got a hug from him to boot. For Republicans, the embrace symbolized Crist's defiance of current party wisdom that Obama was to be opposed at all costs. For Crist, this Republican "tribalism" was "silly--and wrong," but his memoir gives evidence that he and his lifelong party had been diverging long before then. Crist was ashamed when the Florida fiasco of 2000 ended with the U.S. Supreme Court awarding the state's electoral votes and the whole election to George W. Bush, who happened to be brother of then-Governor Jeb Bush. As governor himself six years later, he would upset his party when he pushed to make voting easier for all Floridians, even for former felons. Still calling himself "pro-life," in practice, he has been loath to use his political offices to come between women and their doctors. As Florida attorney general in 2005, he steered clear of the Terri Schiavo case and was aghast when the Bushes and congressional Republicans tried to use the power of the state to force the comatose woman's husband to keep her on life support. Democrats, of course, will eat up Crist's self-presentation as common-sense populist, as well as his unflattering portraits of the Bushes, Karl Rove, Sarah Palin and many other GOP and tea party stars. Republicans will find little to cheer about here, but independent-minded readers might enjoy this front-row view of Florida politics at the turn of the millennium.

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      • Library Journal

        September 15, 2013

        In this political memoir, the former Republican governor of Florida explains why he became disenchanted with his party and ended up running for the Senate as an independent, endorsing Obama, and finally becoming a Democrat.

        Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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