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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
John Heilemann
4.08 AVERAGE
299 reviews for:
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
John Heilemann
4.08 AVERAGE
Great recap of the 2008 election. The parts about John Edwards and Palin are awesome. Loved it.
An entertaining, informative, and highly readable narrative of the 2008 presidential primaries and campaign. Lots of cheeky behind-the-scenes gossip but not mean-spirited. Enjoyable.
If you followed the 2008 election the way I did, this book will hold few surprises, fact-wise. But it gives a great perspective, from a number of different viewpoints, of how the various news and noteworthy events affected the players, and gave a humanizing touch to all of them.
This was a book I didn't really want to put down and I liked all of the inside information that we weren't privvy to during the election. It is fairly tabloid (in an In Touch magazine kind of way), but that is part of why I liked it.
Not a very flattering portrayal of any the candidates, but the Clintons come off worse than I expected. I have no way of knowing if all the allegations are true, though.
Not a very flattering portrayal of any the candidates, but the Clintons come off worse than I expected. I have no way of knowing if all the allegations are true, though.
An absolutely fascinating look at behind-the-scenes of the Election that reignited the political passion of a nation. It's a very weird time to revisit the 2008 election with the country in such turmoil and lines so clearly drawn in the sand for or against. But I guess that's not really much different from any modern day, bi-partisan political race.
Game Change paints a very vivid picture of the personal struggles, doubts, hurdles, and antics of the major political players of the 2008 Presidential race. Beginning with the Democratic primaries, the book traces John Edwards' fall from grace, Hillary Clinton's tenacity (even when partnered with stupidity), and Barack Obama's meteoric rise to media darling. Moving on through, you see where Sarah Palin's lack of experience shine as she's plucked from obscurity and John McCain try and keep a crumbling bid in place despite surmounting odds.
As a person who has always had an interest in politics and the motivations behind races, this book was fantastic! To be a part of the most exciting presidential race of the past generation, and learn how the families, cabinets, and advisors all faired and planned...IT IS A MUST READ.
Game Change paints a very vivid picture of the personal struggles, doubts, hurdles, and antics of the major political players of the 2008 Presidential race. Beginning with the Democratic primaries, the book traces John Edwards' fall from grace, Hillary Clinton's tenacity (even when partnered with stupidity), and Barack Obama's meteoric rise to media darling. Moving on through, you see where Sarah Palin's lack of experience shine as she's plucked from obscurity and John McCain try and keep a crumbling bid in place despite surmounting odds.
As a person who has always had an interest in politics and the motivations behind races, this book was fantastic! To be a part of the most exciting presidential race of the past generation, and learn how the families, cabinets, and advisors all faired and planned...IT IS A MUST READ.
Really interesting look at the 2008 election. No surprise it was mostly focused on the democratic primaries. Very good read!
Hot damn. I knew that the 2008 election was full of drama, but I didn't know it was THIS full of drama! This book is 100% politics, but it reads like a novel: I couldn't put it down. It's all the more dramatic because it is all true.
Reread 9/10/11. Still just as gripping on the reread. Can't wait to see the HBO adaptation of it, but I just found out that they're only going to be focusing on the Republican parts of it, which is kind of a disappointment.
Reread 9/10/11. Still just as gripping on the reread. Can't wait to see the HBO adaptation of it, but I just found out that they're only going to be focusing on the Republican parts of it, which is kind of a disappointment.
Recommended by Nick Hornby.
Gossipy and fun. No-holds-barred on the swearing either. A lot more pages on the Dems (Clintons on particular) than the GOP, it seemed to me?
Gossipy and fun. No-holds-barred on the swearing either. A lot more pages on the Dems (Clintons on particular) than the GOP, it seemed to me?
covers the 2008 campaign & election. basically a really good summary of the first time i really cared about politics. there are some points in this where the book will have one sentence on a gaffe or interview or w/e and i'll remember having read 12 think-pieces on it ... makes you remember just how extensive the coverage was. a 500 page book on barely covers it, barely replicates the scale of all of it (too much gossip in this maybe ...) remember how close mccain came to picking lieberman as his running mate? that really happened
no Answers for the latest super tuesday, apart from the part where hillary asks "why don't they like me???" (according to my brother, the answer is 'she's going to take away my guns.' but i think it's a little more than that) i voted for her in the 2008 primaries because i felt like i had a Democratic Imperative. obama just wouldn't be able to beat mccain ... talk about history repeating.
no Answers for the latest super tuesday, apart from the part where hillary asks "why don't they like me???" (according to my brother, the answer is 'she's going to take away my guns.' but i think it's a little more than that) i voted for her in the 2008 primaries because i felt like i had a Democratic Imperative. obama just wouldn't be able to beat mccain ... talk about history repeating.