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El Ascenso de Marco Rubio

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By (author): Manuel Roig-Franzia

Now in a Spanish-language edition: the definitive biography of Senator Marco Rubio, the youngest Speaker of the Florida Statehouse and the biggest rising star in the Republican Party.

SENATOR MARCO RUBIO has been called the Michael Jordan of Republican politics and a crown prince of the Tea Party. He is a political figure who inspires fierce passions among his supportersand his detractors.

From his familys immigrant roots to his ascent from small-town commissioner to the heights of the United States Senate, The Rise of Marco Rubio traces a classic American odyssey. Rubios grandfather was born in a humble thatched-palm dwelling in a sugar canegrowing region of Cuba, more than fifty years before Rubios parents left the island for a better life in Miami. His father worked as a bartender, his mother as a maid and stock clerk at Kmart. Rubio was quick on his high school football field, and even quicker in becoming a major voice on everything from immigration to the role of faith in public life and one of the great hopes of the Republican Party.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews and documents, Washington Post reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia shows how Rubio cultivated a knack for apprenticing himself to the right mentor, learning the issues, and volunteering for tough political jobs that made him shine. He also has a way with words and the instinct to seize opportunities that others dont see. As Mike Huckabee says, Rubio is our Barack Obama with substance. The Rise of Marco Rubio elegantly tells us why.

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THE RISE OF MARCO RUBIO A POLITICIAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME

A slender, delicate right shoulder knifed downward; a cane flipped sideways. Nancy Reagan was crashing. But before the crowds applause gave way to gasps, Marco Rubio, his hair parted just so, a valedictorians smile on his face, tugged the aging icon toward him. He caught the ninety-year-old almost parallel to the floor and bound for a bone-chipping thud.

Extraordinary political careers can build momentum from an accretion of perfect moments, and this was just one more for Marco Rubio. Rubios reflexes had only sharpened the impression that a party looking for heroes had found a figure with great promise. American politics had never seen anything like him.

A FAMILY THAT FACED THE CHALLENGES OF IMMIGRATION

In the summer of 1962 Rubios Cuban grandfather Pedro Víctor asked his bosses for a vacation, and this time they granted it. And so it was that on August 31, 1962, he took an incredibly risky step. He boarded Pan American Airlines Flight 2422 bound for Miami. His troubles began not long after the plane landed.

A LEGISLATOR FULL OF AMBITION

In Marco Rubios second year at the Florida capital, a committee was formed to redraw voting district lines. As usual, Rubios timing was good and his instincts were spot-on. Redistricting was a once-in-a-decade ritual, and it presented him with a once-in-a-decade opportunity. Not yet thirty, he volunteered to help. In doing so he took the same route he had traveled before, making himself an apprentice in a good position to impress the older generation. Volunteering for the task meant substantial face time with the leaders of the state house. And the leaders noticed him. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 306g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Aug 2012
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781451687125

About Manuel Roig-Franzia

Manuel Roig-Franzia is a writer in The Washington Posts Style section. His essays span a broad range of subjects including politics power and the culture of Washington as well as profiling major political figures and authors.

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