Golden: How Rod Blagojevich Talked Himself out of the Governor's Office and into Prison [Paperback]

Rod Blagojevich made international headlines in 2008 when the 40th governor of Illinois was arrested by the FBI at his Chicago home, accused of running the state government as a criminal racket and, most shockingly, of trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s US Senate seat. Revealing evidence from the investigation never before made public,Goldenis the definitive account of the Blagojevich story, written by two Chicago reporters who covered every step of his rise and fall and spent years sifting through evidence, compiling documents, and conducting over a hundred interviews with those who have known Blagojevich from his childhood to his time in the governor’s office. The authors dispense with the sensationalism around the case to present the facts about one of the nation’s most notorious politicians, detailing the mechanics of the corruption that brought him down and profiling a fascinating and frustrating character—serving a prison sentence since 2012—who embodies much of what is wrong with modern politics.