Top Reads For News Junkies: ‘More Than They Bargained For’

Top Reads For News Junkies: ‘More Than They Bargained For’

Scott Walker’s rapid ascendance in the Republican Party begins here — with his 2010 election to the governorship of Wisconsin, and his subsequent gutting of the state’s public unions. The fallout threw Madison into a tangle of parliamentary gamesmanship and protests from labor unions, documented in More Than They Bargained For: Scott Walker, Unions, and the Fight for Wisconsinbut it also cast a national spotlight on Walker. Two elections later, his star is still rising, and he is now a frontrunner for the GOP’s 2016 presidential nomination.

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