Falling Up: How a Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting

Media and Public Affairs

by Raymond D. Strother

This brash and rollicking autobiography is a potent primer of the rough-and-tumble world of political consulting by one of its founding fathers and preeminent experts. A cross between a patriotic redneck raconteur and a TV-savvy renaissance man, Raymond D. Strother is unafraid to name names and refuses to mince words in tales of what he calls "the beauty and gore" of American politics. From the crash course in Louisiana politics and corruption he received following graduate school to his compelling entry into the big-time senatorial and congressional races of the 1970s and early 1980s and his adventures with candidates Clinton, Gore, and Hart and famous consultants Dick Morris and James Carville, Strother offers a wildly entertaining, controversial, but finally optimistic political and media success story that will thrill and inspire anyone spellbound by American politics.

Genres: Politics

328 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2003

Reviews

[Victoria]

This book gives an amazing insight into political consulting. Highly recommended to anyone interested in politics!

[Jack Walsh]

Very interesting. Worth reading. The author was a ground breaker in this area.