It\'s My Party

\'My views were Republican, I voted Republican, I worked in a White House that was Republican. I had to admit it. I was as Republican as they come. That may have been obvious to you, but it came as a rude awakening to me.\'IT\'S MY PARTYAfter Ronald Reagan, after George Bush, after Bill Clinton, where is the Republican Party headed today? This is exactly the question former White House speechwriter and special assistant to the president Peter Robinson asked himself--and the answers he discovered surprised even him. IT\'S MY PARTY is part irreverent memoir, part \'travel diary, \' and part impassioned call to arms. In it, Robinson shows just what the GOP has got going for it--and how its most triumphant years are yet to come.Along with Robinson\'s personal, and sometimes hilarious, lifelong relationship with Republicanism, IT\'S MY PARTY takes us through history and geography to trace the party\'s roots. It pushes the hot buttons of headline issues that other political professionals are afraid to touch. It introduces us to both the party\'s leaders and its foot soldiers, from George Bush, Sr. to Rep. Chris Cox, from Newt Gingrich to Bret Schundler, mayor of Jersey City, N.J. It follows the surprising rite of passage of one gifted young African-American Republican and provides one woman officeholder\'s perspective, revolutionary in its simplicity, on the gender gap. And it looks up close at the two men most likely to carry the standard of the Republican Party into the new century: George W. Bush and New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.At the end of the journey, the Grand Old Party proves grander than Robinson had thought. Of course, it looms as the champion of the time-honored principles of self-reliance, limited government, and respect for the Judeo-Christian moral tradition. But ultimately, it stands for nothing less than the success of American democracy. For the author, it\'s been a love affair, messy and all-consuming, with an institution that became more fascinating the better he knew it, without losing its ability to infuriate and annoy. It\'s his party, he tells us. And it\'s still kicking.