Rough Edges: My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington

Rough Edges: My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington

As one of the leading members of the House Judiciary Committee that impeached President Bill Clinton, JamesÂ Rogan's place in the pantheon of conservative heroes remains secure.Â But that is just part of an amazing life story that contains more drama than found in ten lives. Â Â Born to a single mother - a cocktail waitress and convicted felon on welfare - Rogan grew up without knowing his father who abandoned him before his birth. After a rough-and-tumble childhood in San Francisco's hardscrabble Mission District, he was expelled from high school, became a bartender on Hollywood's Sunset Strip and in a Hells Angels biker bar, and worked as a porn theater bouncer. Along the way he met a young Arkansas lawyer and politician who advised him to study law and become a member of a different kind of bar. Â In time, Rogan scrapped his way through college and law school, became a gang murder DA in Los Angeles prosecuting Crips and Bloods, and then became a state court judge, majority leader of his state legislature, and finally won a seat in the US House of Representatives from Southern California. Â In 1998, as a Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, he found himself helping to lead the impeachment of the President of the United States, Bill Clinton - the same Arkansas lawyer who advised him to go into law and politics two decades earlier. Â Rough Edges is chock-full of wild tales, humor, and fun. Rogan tells an engaging story that will make you laugh and cry, and is perhaps the most honest political memoir ever written. Includes a 16-page B&W photo insert.

Country	USA
Author	James Rogan
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Rogan James
EAN	9781936488322
Edition	2
Feature	Rough Edges My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington
ISBN	1936488329
Label	WND Books
Manufacturer	WND Books
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	336
PublicationDate	2014-04-15
Publisher	WND Books
ReleaseDate	2014-04-15
Studio	WND Books

Rough Edges: My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington

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