<div id="subtitle">Publishing co: Former GOP Sen. George Allen to write book about sports and politics</div><div><p>A publisher plans to release a book about sports and politics by former Republican Sen. George Allen next year.</p><p>Regnery Publishing in Washington says the former Virginia governor's new book will be titled "The Triumph of Character: What Washington Can Learn from the World of Sports." It's due out next June.</p><p>Regnery says the book will show what politics can learn from the world of sports, a meritocracy based on athletic achievement and teamwork, and how that can help America surmount its challenges.</p><p>Allen was a college quarterback at Virginia and is the namesake son of the late Pro Football Hall of Fame coach of the Los Angeles Rams and the Washington Redskins.</p><p>In 1993, cowboy-booted, tobacco chewing Allen's election as governor over a heavily favored Democrat launched eight years of the greatest GOP gains in Virginia history.</p><p>The senator was a serious prospect for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination before losing re-election in 2006 to Democrat Jim Webb. Allen's campaign imploded after he famously called a Webb campaign volunteer of Indian-American descent "macaca," a slur in some cultures, as the aide videotaped an Allen campaign rally.</p><p>Allen now heads the American Energy Freedom Center, a nonprofit advocacy group opposed to Democratic energy proposals such as cap-and-trade.</p><p>Regnery has published political books by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, actor Chuck Norris and political commentator Ann Coulter, among others.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=54451972&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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