{"product_id":"2940013411265","title":"Fred Who?","description":"Fred Karger is not your average Republican candidate for president in\u003cbr\u003e2012.  For one thing, he's moderate.  For another, he's Jewish.  And\u003cbr\u003efor another, he's gay.  While he never hid his politics or religion\u003cbr\u003efrom the world, he did keep his homosexuality a secret for years.  He\u003cbr\u003ewas 41 when he finally came out to his family.  And in his 27 years at\u003cbr\u003eone of the most highly regarded political consulting firms in the\u003cbr\u003eU.S., he never told his peers.  Only after Karger retired in 2004 did\u003cbr\u003ehe reveal himself.\u003cbr\u003eThe revelations coincided with a new found social activism that\u003cbr\u003eblossomed in 2008 when Karger became involved in the effort to save\u003cbr\u003esame sex marriage in California (the battle over Proposition 8).  In\u003cbr\u003e\"outing\" the Mormon Church's secret funding of the campaign to\u003cbr\u003eeliminate same sex marriage, Karger found himself the subject of\u003cbr\u003einternational headlines; vitriolic condemnation by the Church and its\u003cbr\u003efront, the National Organization for Marriage; and even received a\u003cbr\u003edeath threat.  He also received numerous messages from gay men and\u003cbr\u003ewomen--many of them young--thanking him for his efforts.\u003cbr\u003eHaving worked on hundreds of political campaigns, including nine\u003cbr\u003epresidential races, Karger was energized to run for president.\u003cbr\u003eAs he makes clear in this book, crashing the party is nothing new to\u003cbr\u003ehim. In his youthfully exuberant days, he crashed the stage at the\u003cbr\u003eAcademy Awards twice, Hubert Humphrey's campaign plane, and, yes, even\u003cbr\u003ethe White House.  \"When you are a closeted gay person, you learn to be\u003cbr\u003ecreative,\" he explains.\u003cbr\u003eIn FRED WHO, Karger--with uncommon candor and poignant humor--answers\u003cbr\u003ethe question that everyone from Sir David Frost to Rachel Maddow, from\u003cbr\u003ethe New York Times to Politico, has been asking for the last several\u003cbr\u003emonths: Who the hell is Fred Karger? He painstakingly relates what it\u003cbr\u003eis like to live in the closet, afraid to tell family, friends,\u003cbr\u003ecolleagues, and the candidates for whom he works.  He shares the\u003cbr\u003elessons learned working for the likes of Ronald Reagan and George H.W.\u003cbr\u003eBush.  And he offers wonderful stories about life on the political\u003cbr\u003etrail and in Hollywood (where he was an actor before turning to\u003cbr\u003epolitics.  Sound familiar?)\u003cbr\u003eBy the end of this memoir, the reader will indeed know who Fred Karger\u003cbr\u003eis and have new insights into the many worlds that he has inhabited.\u003cbr\u003eYou may even want to support his candidacy.","brand":"Fred Karger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145819308272,"sku":"2940013411265","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013411265_p0.jpg?v=1763580888","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013411265","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}