Falling Up: How a Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting

The political consultant describes his life and career, first in Louisiana politics and then advising such presidential candidates as Gary Hart and Bill Clinton.

Raymond D. Strother is president of the firm Strother, Duffy Strother and lives in Washington, D.C., and Montana. He is former president of the American Association of Political Consultants, a former fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University, a member of the Louisiana State University Journalism Hall of Fame, the recipient of a 2001 Pollie Award for the Best Political Television, and the author of the political novel Cottonwood.