The review about this product
Our country's central problem is its citizens do not trust its government, proclaims U.S. Senator Arlen Specter in "Passion for Truth". With people like Arlen Specter in government, who can blame them? This is a politician who has spent a career carefully taking the political center in most controversies, except the Kennedy assassination (where he is a leading defender of the single assassin theory). One cannot help but realize that Mr. Specter must have spent a career facing constituents expressing disappointment and distrust. By his own admission, Arlen Specter sees himself as a political moderate who won admiration from the liberal spectrum for opposing Robert Bork for the Supreme Court and then won admiration from the conservative spectrum for supporting Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court. Political activists can count on Arlen Specter to be with them half the time. Readers will see a politician driven by ambition. This may explain his ability to pick and choose ideology at will. Many political autobiographies announce a startling revelation to provoke sales. The great secret exposed in this book is the physician who performed the autopsy of John Kennedy burned his notes because he didn't wish to see them someday crassly displayed in a museum. In case you were losing sleep on this great mystery, now you know. This book doesn't offer any more great new gems. Instead, the reader follows Arlen Specter's life journey. Students of politics will appreciate the many experiences detailed in this book. The book shines when the Senator discussed his personal struggles with a brain tumor and overcoming being told, incorrectly, he had less than six weeks to live. Overall, this is a decent book. There are no flashy revelations. It is a good book, with much personal insight, for political and Congressional enthusiasts.
