{"id":219,"date":"2008-08-01T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/castingstones\/2008\/08\/ralph-reed-the-novelist-dark-h.html"},"modified":"2008-08-01T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T15:00:55","slug":"ralph-reed-the-novelist-dark-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/castingstones\/2008\/08\/ralph-reed-the-novelist-dark-h.html","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Reed the Novelist? — “Dark Horse” is a really good read"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, that Ralph Reed–the former executive director of the Christian Coalition–has written a novel about a three-candidate general presidential election–and it is a really good read.
\nFull disclosure is in order. I have known Ralph Reed for more than two decades and consider him to be both a good friend and one of the most gifted political minds in the country. What I didn’t know is that he has a considerable gift for spinning an entertaining and informational political yarn.
\nReed reveals in the acknowledgments for Dark Horse<\/em> that he originally began writing the novel in 1976, when he was 15, but put it aside, feeling that he “didn’t know enough to tell the story.”
\n<\/em>
\nWell, he does now. As someone who has been at the epicenter of many of the most compelling political moments in the nation’s life over the past quarter century, Ralph Reed takes us behind the headlines to the inside workings of political campaigns, with all of the intense and conflicting pressures that go with that territory.
\nDark Horse<\/em> will entertain you and also give any reader a better understanding of a world few people have seen as “up close and personal” as Ralph Reed has over the years.
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\nDark Horse<\/em> is that<\/em> good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, that Ralph Reed–the former executive director of the Christian Coalition–has written a novel about a three-candidate general presidential election–and it is a really good read. Full disclosure is in order. 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