El Ascenso de Marco Rubio
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Publisher Description
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.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio has been called the “crown prince” of the Tea Party movement and “the Michael Jordan of Republican politics.” Some might think that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but no one—not even his rivals in the Democratic Party—disagrees with the fact that Marco Rubio is going far in American politics.
Manuel Roig-Franzia delivers the story of how Rubio came up so fast and why. It’s a classic American odyssey: his parents left Cuba for a better economic life in Miami a few years before Castro came to power; his father worked as a bartender, his mother as a maid and then stock clerk at Kmart. When the cocaine cowboys were terrorizing south Florida, Rubio’s family moved to Vegas, where his father worked in a gambling hall. When they moved back to south Florida, the small but tough Rubio made the football team, became an expert on the Miami Dolphins, and raced to begin a political career minutes after graduating from law school. By the time he was sworn in as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives in 2000, he was the youngest person and the first Hispanic to hold that position. Mike Huckabee likes to say: “He is our Barack Obama with substance.”
Marco describes all facets of this policy wonk married to a former Dolphins cheerleader with whom he has four children. Rubio has the endurance, smarts and charisma to be a presence on the American political scene for years to come. This is a book his fans, and critics, must read.
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Fox News analyst Dick Morris opined that whoever wins the GOP nomination in 2012 "should choose for vice president, no question," adding that, "Rubio is a superstar." Readers in search of an in-depth and unbiased look at the young, dynamic Republican senator from Florida will be rewarded by this well-researched biography from Washington Post reporter Roig-Franzia. The author expounds on Rubio's personal and family history, and deftly parses his political acumen, detailing Rubio's facility with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube social media his older colleagues struggle to employ gracefully. Roig-Franzia also incisively outlines what some see as his largest asset, namely, his Cuban heritage; indeed, Jeb Bush, a mentor of Rubio's, wrote that in terms of who will control "the White House and the Senate in 2013, Hispanic voters will represent the margin of victory." Whether Rubio is the key to that margin is still up in the air, and perhaps one of the most pressing questions is how Rubio will balance his Latino appeal with his party's hard-nosed immigration policy. Roig-Franzia is a veteran journalist and it shows the writing here is crisp and the research thorough. Member of the Grand Old Party or no, readers will find plenty to root for or fear in Roig-Franzia's Rubio.
