Storming the State House provides a revealing, behind-the-scenes look into the campaign that elected Alabama's first Republican legislature in modern history and moved the state in a new direction after 136 years of Democratic Party rule. Written by Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard, it is a battlefield account by the architect of the Republican takeover, whose vision and partisan vigor directly led to the GOP tsunami that hit Alabama in 2010.

When Hubbard met a first-time congressional candidate named Bob Riley in the mid-1990s, little did he know it would lead him to run for the Alabama House of Representatives and one day preside at the highest level of statehouse politics. In his two terms as chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, Hubbard led his team to set fundraising records and brought a new level of aggressiveness to political gamesmanship.

Storming the State House is an insider's view into how history was made and how one man's vision and determination helped lead a Repu