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Rick Perry's three strikes


Rick Perry's presidential bid went on a deathwatch after his debate debacle. In speaking with the many who have known Perry over the years, fellow Texan Bryan Burrough discovers the surprising reasons behind the campaign's train wreck and how Perry, with an unbroken string of nine political victories, might yet stage a comeback.

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  • Bryan Burrough: special correspondent at Vanity Fair magazine and the author of five books, including the number one New York Times Best-Seller "Barbarians at the Gate" and the best-selling "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave" and the "Birth of the FBI, 1933-34."

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