Race of a Lifetime
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141040677 (014104067X)
Publish date: June 3rd 2010
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Journalism,
Politics,
American History,
Presidents,
Political Science
The political wonk's version of US Weekly. Full of apparentlys, allegedlys and not a source in sight. It's extremely readable (how could multiple train-wrecks not be?) but I still have issues with the way the women are dealt with in the book. When Hillary Clinton talks, she is described as "whining"...
Sooo.... I'm thinking this was not a favorite book of Hilary Clinton. And McCain and Palin. And John Edwards. Obama came out of this smelling like a rose.It was just such an interesting juxtaposition of the Obama and Clinton campaigns. Clinton's seemed to be in disarray and full of infighting with n...
I found it very interesting. It's easy to get caught up in the public personas and forget that these folks are just people. Well done and entertaining as well as informative and interesting.
I found it very interesting. It's easy to get caught up in the public personas and forget that these folks are just people. Well done and entertaining as well as informative and interesting.
Catnip for a political junkie. Political sausage making in all it unglory with a fly on the wall perspective. Could not put it down. The movie should be great. The last comparable book I read was What It Takes: The Way To The White House by Richard Ben Cramer.