"Drawing on newspaper articles written by National Post journalists Christie Blatchford, Jonathan Kay, Andrew Coyne, Chris Selley, Rex Murphy and others, an account of the precipitous rise and calamitous fall of one of the most controversial public figures in Canadian political history. From his early days as a crusading suburban city councillor to his reign as Mayor of Toronto and his eventual crowning as the city's clown prince, the National Post presents a history of Rob Ford with all the warning signs, red flags, enthusiasms, controversies and scandals that have led to our current mayoral mess"--Provided by publisher.