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So it is a famous West Coast entrepreneur, rather than obscure Middle American hicks, to whom Simpson grants the chance to display a zealous ambition born of delusory innocence.
Seattle back then was like the small towns of coming-of-age novels--anybody with the slightest ambition longed to leave.
For all its currency, the carpetbagger charge only carries these days in parochial places and when it plays into other, more potent, liabilities: the naked ambition of Dawkins or Huffington, the Washington-insider image of Brock.
Critics agree that the novel lapses at times into "breathless overwriting" (David Wiegland, the San Francisco Chronicle ) but remains "a narrative of considerable ambition and complexity" ( The New Yorker ). (Read an excerpt and an interview with the author here.)
In November 1992, he was New York state's chief judge and a rising star in the Republican party, famed for his monstrous ego, his political ambition, and his jousts with Gov.