What makes politicians tick? Barton Swaim has an answer. He had a front-row seat to the career of one of the more infamous examples of the species in recent years: Mark Sanford. As a speechwriter for the South Carolina governor, Swaim watched Sanford transform from conservative rising star—a prospective vice-presidential or even presidential candidate—to a political pariah and learned that ambition cannot exist without vanity.
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