Sheriff: Holding the Thin Blue Line in a Deep Blue State (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781917613422)

This is the true story of Alex Villanueva, who spent four decades in public service, rising through the ranks to become the 33rd Sheriff of Los Angeles County, the largest sheriff's department and the third largest law enforcement agency in the nation. It's a story of overcoming adversity from an early age, leading a career fraught with the danger of speaking truth to power, overcoming obstacles, and winning an improbable race to unseat an incumbent sheriff. This is a modern David versus Goliath story, but then Goliath discovered lawfare...