Description: Young Henry Burton, a former Congressional aide of mixed race and the grandson of the legendary civil rights leader, is going through a precocious mid-life crisis. Tired of the back-scratching and back-stabbing and back-watching of the legislative process, he's wondering what to do next with his Beltway experience and abilities when Jack Stanton, the Governor of a small Southern state who has set his sights on the Presidency, half-flatters, half-shanghais him into a campaign-staff job. What follows for Henry -- and the listeners -- is an education in modern American electorial politics which in dramatic power, humor, psychological acuity, and insider knowledge beggars a hundred textbooks and a thousand lectures.

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