In the middle sections, they document PenceвЂ™s marriage an unfocused, meandering work history during his 20s and impatient attempts to join the House of Representatives by defeating an entrenched Democratic incumbent. The authors devote the final third of the book to the Trump-Pence partnership. When that became reality much later, Pence tolerated TrumpвЂ™s vitriol and scandals as preordained by God, simply a means to an end. Of course, at such an early age, he did not foresee that serving as vice president to Donald Trump would constitute part of GodвЂ™s plan. Pence came to believe that God decided the path of every human while still a student, he also adopted the notion that God would elevate him to the presidency. As for the religious component, PenceвЂ™s mainstream Catholicism morphed into evangelical zealotry with a heavy emphasis on the inerrancy of the Bible. 1959).ДвЂ™Antonio ( A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama, 2017, etc.) and Eisner ( MacArthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II, 2017, etc.) begin with PenceвЂ™s middle-class, Catholic, politically moderate Indiana upbringing before tracing how the ambitious, polite young man turned toward increasingly exclusionary politics during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Award-winning, veteran journalists collaborate on a well-researched and moderately toned yet searing biography of Vice President Mike Pence (b.

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