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Solo para iniciados es un libro dirigido a los autodenominados consultores políticos. No es un manual de campaña, ni un anecdotario, ni una guía para convertirse en un consultor político. Es un análisis de la expansión de esta "industria" con la idea central de definir a este tipo de actores políticos, quienes, día con día, van multiplicándose a una velocidad inimaginable. La consultoría política, en estas páginas, se reconoce no solo como un mecanismo de comunicación o la aplicación de sus herramientas.

Blind Ambition is an autobiographical account of a young lawyer who accelerated to the top of the Federal power structure to become Counsel to the President at 30 years of age, only to discover that when reaching the top, he had touched the bottom. Most striking in this chronicle is its honesty. Dean spares no one, including himself. But, as Time noted, Dean survived, despite the opposition of powerful foe, because he had no false story to protect and he had an amazing ability to recall the truth.

This course examines the life of Benjamin Franklin and his influence on both American and world history. He remains the model of the American thinker - a man who was interested in nearly everything, and who pursued those interests with an admirable and contagious passion. To study Franklin's life is to learn not only the history of a single man, but to understand some of the most monumental changes in all of human history.