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Brown, Scott (Author/Model) & The Editors of Cosmoplitan Magazine : Against All Odds: My Life Of Hardship, Fast Breaks, And Second Chances

HarperCollins Publishers, New York City, NY, 2011

ISBN 0062015540

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 325 pages. Rare Scott Brown and Americana collectible set. A pristine copy of "Against All Odds" with a pristine copy of the very first Cosmopolitan Magazine "Centerfold" Issue, in which he is the Centerfold. The former is signed, dated, and inscribed by Scott Brown. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Scott Brown's "Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, And Second Chances". Only in America. His personal and political journey, whose title says it all. "Tells the story of his difficult, often nomadic childhood, shunted from house to apartment, and town to town, seventeen times over his first eighteen years. His rise was even more improbable: A first-year law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan Magazine's 'America's Sexiest Man' and was vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modelling at the height of the 1980's. Here are the secrets from the unprecedented Senate race that captured the country's imagination" (Publisher's blurb). The snobbish New York Review of Books gave the book a favorable review, praising its candor (particularly Brown's account of the relentless homosexual abuse he endured) plus the fact that Senator Scott Brown was a genuine anomaly: A more-or-less moderate Republican, more good-looking than most Democrats, who won in ultra-liberal Massachusetts, then lost partly because he would not obey the Tea Party's marching orders. Although he is now, just as improbably, Ambassador to New Zealand, this is essentially, and poignantly, his remarkable American life: A Senate stint, a well-written book, and the memory of his youthful virility as a Cosmo model. An absolute "must-have" set for Scott Brown and Americana collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed, dated (in the year of publication), and inscribed in black pen-marker opposite the title page by the author: "Keep the faith! Scott Brown XXI". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. There is no recipient named. It comes with a pristine copy of the Cosmopolitan Magazine "Centerfold" Issue, which shows that Scott Brown had it all. This title is a contemporary Americana classic. As far as we know, this is the only set available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, pristine beauties. A rare set thus. One of the best American autobiographies of our time. A fine set. . ISBN 0062015540.

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