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  Don't miss this timely - and INFORMATIVE - presentation!  Join journalist/author Ronald B. Scott (aka RB Scott) when he reads from and discusses MITT ROMNEY: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics.   Ron will address the big question:  Can a faithful Mormon really win his party’s nomination and then upset the popular if now struggling President, Barack Obama?  The author is also available to answer questions about Romney’s current political aspirations and past political positions, his family history, and the history and inner workings of the Mormon Church, including: •    Romney’s last-minute run for governor in 2002—and the behind-the-scenes activities that went on to essentially make him the de facto Republican nominee; his leadership of the Salt Lake Olympic Games and the situation he inherited when he took over the games in 1998; and his 1994 campaign against Senator Kennedy, including Romney’s initial shifting positions on abortion, homosexual rights, gambling. •    The Mormon Church’s steady, accelerating march toward the religious mainstream, and how Romney’s emergence as a political leader hastened the arrival of the “Mormon Moment.” •    Romney’s service as a church leader; the church’s recent (last 20 years) history of dealing with dissent and historical disputes; general background information on the church, its leaders and some of its key operatives; and Romney’s ancestors’ pivotal leadership roles within the church •    How the Mormon Church works and the Mormon network: how the network put together to support Proposition 8 in 2008 was exactly the kind of operation  Romney tried to put in place in 2008…and is likely in place in some form in 2011-12.  ABOUT THE BOOK: “Ronald Scott comes at his biography of Mitt Romney from a slightly different direction: He’s known Romney for decades. The result is honest, yet never a simple takedown. Through dogged reporting and his own personal recollections, Scott paints a broad-ranging portrait of Romney, from his college years through his missionary experience, his business triumphs and his time running both the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and the state of Massachusetts. It’s a look at the ideals he adopted from his father, former Michigan Gov. George Romney, as well as where he steered his own politics in a different direction. The image that emerges, as is true of any well-studied individual’s life, is more complex than you might expect. Scott highlights the personality traits that simultaneously made Romney a success in the private and the public sector, and a difficult-to-embrace enigma for many potential voters.” --Salt Lake City Weekly ABOUT THE AUTHOR:      Ronald  B. Scott has written for People, Time, Life, Sports Illustrated and Money. His work has appeared in USA Today, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Boston Globe, Salt Lake Tribune and Philadelphia Inquirer. R.B. Scott was the first to raise the “flip flopping” issue in 2005 when Romney changed positions on abortion and gay rights.  He has been following Romney for decades.