judge on the United States Court of Appeals, served in local elected office in Ohio, worked for major law firms, and taught election and voting rights law. Prior to law school, he worked in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. Pepper serves as Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, after being elected in December 2014 and reelected to a second term in 2018.[Q&A with David Pepper.]
At CrimeReads, Pepper tagged nine "fiction and non-fiction titles that most effectively portray the real-world drama of American politics—the good, the bad and the ugly." One book on the list:
All the King’s Men, Robert Penn WarrenRead about another entry on the list.
All the King’s Men, the iconic political novel, delves deeply into the complex characters that drive politics, both the politicians themselves and those behind the scenes whoguide, counsel and protect them. How they get their start, and how a rise to power changes them and alters their relationships. Seventy years later, so many aspects of this story remain relevant today.
All the King's Men appears on a list of six books recommended by Greg Iles, David Simon's six favorite books list, Ester Bloom's top ten list of books for fans of the television series House of Cards, a list of the eleven best political books of all time, Gabe Habash's list of ten of the biggest book adaptation flops, David Blight's list of five outstanding novels about the Civil War era, Heather Brooke's top five list of books on holding power to account, Melanie Kirkpatrick's list of her five favorite novels of political intrigue, and H.W. Brands's five best list of books on scandals...in truth or just in print; Robert McCrum called it a book to inspire busy public figures.
--Marshal Zeringue
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