Character Makes a Difference: Where I'm From, Where I've Been, and What I Believe

In 1996, Mike Huckabee found himself at the center of one of the most politically charged moments of his career. As Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, he faced a constitutional crisis when his superior, Governor Jim Guy Tucker, refused to resign despite felony convictions stemming from the Whitewater scandal. In a moment that defined his public life, Huckabee chose principle over political convenience, leading the impeachment charge against his own party's governor before a national television audience. That same day, Tucker stepped down. Character Makes a Difference is the story of that defining moment and the convictions behind it. Drawing on his journey from pastoral ministry to the statehouse, and ultimately to the governor's mansion, where he would serve until 2007, Huckabee makes the case that character is not a soft or secondary consideration in public life. It is, he argues, the foundational requirement for any leadership worth trusting: in government, in business, in family, and in the daily choices that determine who we actually are. Part memoir, part call to civic seriousness, this book is both a firsthand account of political life at a critical moment and a lasting argument for why what a person believes, and how consistently they act on it, makes all the difference.