The World According to Gore
by Debra Saunders
$6.95 / paperback
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When Al Gore took credit for helping invent the Internet, it was not the
first story he told. There was also the claim that he and Tipper had
inspired Love Story; the insistence after his sister's death of lung cancer
that he would fight smoking "until his last breath," when in fact he
continued to cash checks from family tobacco holdings; the "no controlling
legal authority" fiasco; and other tall tales.
In The World According to Gore, nationally syndicated
columnist Debra Saunders sees Gore's attempt to create a more exciting self
as consistent with his attempts to prove himself as a "cutting edge"
diagnostician of our social ills. "Whether posing as the eco-guru battling 'consumptionism',"
she writes, "or the social theorist with a 'Livability Agenda' calling for
federally sanctioned communities, attacking the automobile as the scourge of
civilization, and proposing universal pre-school, Al Gore is a unique figure
on our political scene."
As one critic remarked after reading the first few chapters of The
World According to Gore, "Saunders gets inside Gore's head and takes
the reader on a fascinating tour of a man, who, for all his supposed
dullness, is the quirkiest politician in America today."
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