Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
Book Signing Event
Neil Volz
Monday, January 30
11am-1pm
Into the Sun puts a human face on the business of
American politics. When Florida author
Neil Volz moved from small-town Ohio to Capitol Hill he was an idealistic
college student. A decade later, he was
one of the most powerful men in Washington and a key player in the biggest
corruption scandal since Watergate.
A former lobbyist and public official, Volz paints a
vivid and disturbing picture of his rise and fall. He ushers the reader in to the clandestine
world of Congressional deal making and lets them experience his journey down
the slippery slope of corruption. Volz
outlines important life lessons he learned from the scandal. He also raises fundamental questions about
the role of big money in politics. How
does corruption occur? Is it an
individual failure? Or the result of a
failed political system?
While examining such timely issues, the author describes
what it was like to be the target of a Justice Department investigation and how
it felt to help put his former boss, a Member of Congress, into jail. Into the Sun is a both personal
portrait of hope, loyalty, failure and faith, as well as a larger story about
how Washington works - and how it doesn’t.