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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
If you think this book will give you those juicy, sordid details of Sarah Palin's VP campaign a la the HBO movie of the same name, think again. This book heavily weighs on the Democratic primary race. It took me 271 pages to get to John McCain's race with name drops of Romney (foreshadowing his doomed 2012 presidential campaign) here and there. The book focuses on the rise of Obama and the fall of the Clintons. (See the plural usage? This book makes it seem like Hillary is half the person without Bill, and sometimes I couldn't agree more.) It also includes the truly juicy and sordid details of the Edwards campaign and the candidate's utmost fantastical delusion of "everything's gonna be okay." I felt a little unsatisfied at the end, seeing that there wasn't as quality comedy on the Republicans' race as I had expected. Nevertheless, it reads like a soap opera or an actually good episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians (hey, their PR operates in nearly the same fashion)--dramatic and engrossing but all the while, morally questionable to follow. "Really? Why am I reading about why Hillary hates Claire McCaskill? But wow, fascinating."
To note, Joe Biden is still my favorite politician ever. Nobody with that much experience and knowledge can still be as clueless as he is. "Who's Sarah Palin?" Golden.
This book is good enough if you skim it, unless you're a politics/news junkie. Other than that, watch the Julianne Moore movie as your "Sparknotes."
To note, Joe Biden is still my favorite politician ever. Nobody with that much experience and knowledge can still be as clueless as he is. "Who's Sarah Palin?" Golden.
This book is good enough if you skim it, unless you're a politics/news junkie. Other than that, watch the Julianne Moore movie as your "Sparknotes."