bStar Parker holds nothing back in her memoir that explores how she went from a delinquent teenager to a conservative messenger.b pShe was a delinquent teenager, mixed up with crime and drugs. In the 1970s, Star Parker came to Los Angeles with a dream of dancing on iSoul Train--iand ended up an unemployed single mom, barely literate, and living on welfare. But life on county aid was far from impoverished--she was able to lounge in her own jacuzzi, party at Venice Beach, bring in extra income with under-the-table jobs, and take the system for all it was worth. pIt was the power of Christianity that turned her life around. But it was Star's no-excuses attitude of self-empowerment that firmly positioned her on the fast track of conservative politics, speaking out against welfare as the cause of urban America's moral and economic decline--and in favor of taxpayer vouchers for private school education, banning abortion, and condemning condom distribution in public schools. Guided by her fai