A National Party No More by Zell Miller

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17 April 2007

Book Review of A National Party No More

The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat by Zell Miller

In A National Party No More Senator Zell Miller writes a non-fiction book that is something of a memoir of his political life as a lifelong Democrat and as well as being a diatribe against the Democratic Party In 2002 the Democratic Senator Paul Coverdell from Georgia died suddenly and the Georgia Governor Roy Barnes asked Zell Miller to fill in

until November of that year and then to run for the position to serve the time remaining in the late senator 's term of office . When Miller went to Washington D .C . he claims that he had hoped that he would find Washington to be "the place where great issues of the day are debated and solved , and great giants walk those hallowed halls " Instead he discovered what Washington D .C . was not at all like he had hoped and this angered him "on behalf of Americans (Miller 8

In his career Miller has served the State of Georgia as an administrator of a number of "vital agencies , as an assistant to two governors , as head of the State Democratic Party , as Lieutenant Governor , and then as Governor (Miller introduction no page number . He also served in the Georgia State Senate from 1965-1969 . He failed in his attempts to run for the U .S . House of Representatives from Georgia . In addition Miller served in the U .S . Marine Corps and has taught at four different colleges . It is worth noting that the majority of these positions are executive positions not legislative positions so serving as Georgia 's United States Senator put him into a relatively unknown form of government where he lacked extensive experience and on the national level . It appears somewhat incongruous that a marine would be a lifelong Democrat since military personnel currently tend to lean toward the Republican Party . Although Miller served only three years in the Corps it is clear that his experiences affected him greatly because he has written a book Corp Values : Everything You Need to Know I Learned in the Marines

Miller 's book was occasioned by his experiences in the U .S . Senate beginning in 2000 , in combination with his advanced age . Miller was born in 1932 according the reverse side of the title page . The book was published in 2003 so Miller was 70 or 71 at the time his book was published . This is certainly not an issue of itself , but one wonders if Miller would make the same claims he had entered the same Senate at the age of forty or fifty . Miller alludes to this when he writes that he has "arrived at a station in life where I hear the whistle of that moral policeman we all have to answer to (Miller 1 . He takes the occasion to advise "members of my Democratic Party and other...