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A review by mildhonestbonsai
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann
4.0
I actually ended up enjoying this book more than I thought I would. It has been a book that I was curious to read for quite a while and finally got around to it especially after seeing the HBO film adaptation.
The book, as I see it, was another form of portraying the ins and outs of politics the way that The West Wing, Armando Iannucci's The Thick of It, In The Loop, and now Veep portrays it on TV/Film. Being that I have watched all of these shows, I can say that the book does a very good job of shedding light on the political machine and written in a way that (to take Sarah Palin's own terminology) "Joe Six-Pack" is able to understand.
Being that I'm clearly reading this book with the luxury of hindsight, it was definitely really cool in remembering the events that are depicted in the book and then getting that new perspective of what was going on behind the scenes. It was all fresh in my mind being that this election was pretty major in my senior year of college.
The fact that people eat this book up and classify the book as political gossip does not give the book the justice it deserves.
The book, as I see it, was another form of portraying the ins and outs of politics the way that The West Wing, Armando Iannucci's The Thick of It, In The Loop, and now Veep portrays it on TV/Film. Being that I have watched all of these shows, I can say that the book does a very good job of shedding light on the political machine and written in a way that (to take Sarah Palin's own terminology) "Joe Six-Pack" is able to understand.
Being that I'm clearly reading this book with the luxury of hindsight, it was definitely really cool in remembering the events that are depicted in the book and then getting that new perspective of what was going on behind the scenes. It was all fresh in my mind being that this election was pretty major in my senior year of college.
The fact that people eat this book up and classify the book as political gossip does not give the book the justice it deserves.