An acclaimed journalist takes readers inside the battle for the White House and reveals once and for all who got away with what. Tapper paints vivid portraits of all the major players and delivers his wickedly perceptive insights into the two men at the center of it all: Al Gore, the cold, ruthless, and uninspiring technocrat, and George W. Bush, a brilliant schmoozer and deft liar with the intellectual inquisitiveness of the average fern.