True Believers

Former Vice President Al Gore has moved on. These days the two-term vice president and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize recipient maintains a schedule almost as busy as when he was in politics: Generation Investment Management CEO, on the board of directors for Apple Inc. and senior adviser to Google. In 1976, Gore abruptly left law school to run for Congress at the age of twenty-eight. His decision to enter politics signalled the beginning of a long illustrious political career that included two terms as Vice President of the United States. Author Troy Gipson met Gore in 1976, a chance encounter which created a lifelong friendship that has provided Mr. Gipson with rare access to one of the most influential figures in modern American politics. Providing a detailed, personal account of Al Gore's life and career, Gipson includes a behind-the-scenes accounting of the man and his actions that allows readers to discover a different side of Al Gore: the man himself; his motivations; his character, and his insatiable appetite to make a positive difference in our country-and the world. Breathtaking in scope and moving in intimacy, From Carthage to Oslo is the definitive insiders look at one of the most influential politicians of the last century.