WASHINGTON • Jason Kander has written a book that is as much about his fealty to Taco Bell, baseball and pop culture as it is a paean to politics, the profession that he writes he will never apologize for pursuing.
“Outside the Wire,” which is due to be released Aug. 7 by the Hachette Book Group, is mostly about the 2016 Missouri Senate candidate’s life philosophy.
Those looking for an inside dish on his loss to Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., in that pivotal election will find little to chew on. But Kander, a Democrat who last month announced that he would run for mayor of Kansas City, makes it clear that his life’s vocation will center around seeking public office.
“Outside the Wire” refers to Kander’s tour in Afghanistan as an Army intelligence officer. He joined the military in the wake of 9/11, he writes, because of a “burning sense of obligation” to serve his country. “Outside the wire” is…
