Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.
James McGreeveyAbout author
- Author's profession: Politician
- Nationality: american
- Born: August 6, 1957
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