Carpe Diem! - A Memoir of the 2003 California Gubernatorial Recall Election: Dozens of aspiring amateur politicians band together in a hunt for support across California

Marc Valdez, one of the 135 official and 28 write-in candidates in the 2003 California Gubernatorial Recall Election, relates the (sometimes) heartwarming political tale of how, when faced with media scorn, the multitude of obscure candidates for governor banded together to enhance their visibility and advance each other's candidacies, despite vast differences in party, ideology, outlook and temperament.