REBEL WITH A CAUSE GEORGE CRILE'S BOOK HAS ALL THE INGREDIENTS OF PAGE-TURNER FICTION - BUT THE STORY, WILDER THAN FICTION, IS TRUE.(Life and Arts)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | July 3, 2003| | Copyright

Byline: JOHN MARSHALL P-I book critic

The hero of this American story is a renegade congressman with a scandal-ridden past that includes an allegation of cocaine use in a Las Vegas hot tub and a hit-and-run accident in the nation's capital.

This unrepentent party animal named Charlie Wilson has a film star's rugged good looks under his 10-gallon hat and a well-documented fondness for Scotch, socialities and former beauty queens two decades younger. "Good Time Charlie" is a pro-choice liberal Democrat from a small town in the Bible Belt of East Texas who ...

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