Character Is the Issue

How powerful is integrity? Powerful enough to put a Republican preacher into the Governor's mansion in Arkansas. At 1:55pm on July 15, 1996, Lieutenant Governor Mike Huckabee was five minutes from being sworn in as the forty-forth governor of Arkansas. As he finished rehearsing his inaugural address, the phone rang. It was Jim Guy Tucker, the outgoing governor, who was resigning because of his two felony convictions in the Whitewater scandal - only now he wasn't resigning. In this contemporary memoir, Governor Huckabee recounts those historic hours, along with the rest of his journey from a blue-collar family in Hope, Arkansas, to ordained minister, Senate candidate, and a place in the national political stage. Through it all, he understood the power of honour, faith and integrity in our culture - and the dangers of turning away from them.