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Packed boxes lay scattered around Donna Brazile's Kennedy School office, where the former campaign manager for Al Gore `69 has served as a spring fellow at the Institute of Politics (IOP) for the last three months.
After graduating from Louisiana State University in 1981 with a degree in psychology, Brazile began her meteoric rise through the behind-the-scenes world of politics, working on 18 mayoral, 55 congressional and six presidential campaigns before becoming Gore's campaign manager last fall at the age of 40.
"I believe I climbed every step on the political ladder, from precinct captain to field director to campaign manager," she says. "I reached my goal of making it to the top."
"There's a part of me that wants to go back out there and give it one more try," Brazile says. "Not as a campaign manager, but as a voter and informed citizen who can work to educate and train other citizens."
To the rest of the world, of course, the fire (which resulted in four deaths, and lawsuits) was just more fodder for the irresistible tabloid spectacle of a former child star's long spiral downward. There were, first of all, those chilling tales of his domineering father and manager, Kit...