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Condition
Brand new: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the ...
Length
Abridged
Book Series
Police Lost
Type
Audiobook
Narrative Type
Fiction
Features
5 Hours, 4 Compact Discs
ISBN
9780739325445
EAN
9780739325445

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People on the right are furious. People on the left are livid. And the center isn't holding. There is only one thing on which almost everyone agrees: there is something very wrong in Washington. The country is being run by pollsters. Few politicians are able to win the voters' trust. Blame abounds and personal responsibility is nowhere to be found. There is a cynicism in Washington that appalls those in every state, red or blue. The question is: Why? The more urgent question is: What can be done about it? Few people are more qualified to deal with both questions than Joe Klein. There are many loud and opinionated voices on the political scene, but no one sees or writes with the clarity that this respected observer brings to the table. He has spent a lifetime enmeshed in politics, studying its nuances, its quirks, and its decline. He is as angry and fed up as the rest of us, so he has decided to do something about it-in these pages, he vents, reconstructs, deconstructs, and reveals how and why our leaders are less interested in leading than they are in the "permanent campaign" that political life has become. The book opens with a stirring anecdote from the night of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Klein re-creates the scene of Robert Kennedy's appearance in a black neighborhood in Indianapolis, where he gave a gut-wrenching, poetic speech that showed respect for the audience, imparted dignity to all who listened, and quelled a potential riot. Appearing against the wishes of his security team, it was one of the last truly courageous and spontaneous acts by an American politician-and it is no accident that Klein connects courage to spontaneity. From there, Klein begins his analysis-campaign by campaign-of how things went wrong. From the McGovern campaign polling techniques to Roger Ailes's combative strategy for Nixon; from Reagan's reinvention of the Republican Party to Lee Atwater's equally brilliant reinvention of behind-the-scenes strategizing; from Jimmy Carter to George H. W. Bush to Bill Clinton to George W.-as well as inside looks at the losing sides-we see how the Democrats become diffuse and frightened, how the system becomes unbalanced, and how politics becomes less and less about ideology and more and more about how to gain and keep power. By the end of one of the most dismal political runs in history-Kerry's 2004 campaign for president-we understand how such traits as courage, spontaneity, and leadership have disappeared from our political landscape. In a fascinating final chapter, the author refuses to give easy answers since the push for easy answers has long been part of the problem. But he does give thoughtful solutions that just may get us out of this mess-especially if any of the 2008 candidates happen to be paying attention.

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Publisher
Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0739325442
ISBN-13
9780739325445
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48254609

Product Key Features

Publication Year
2006
Topic
Political Process / General, General, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Book Title
Politics Lost : How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You're Stupid
Language
English
Genre
Political Science
Author
Joe Klein
Format
Compact Disc

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Item Height
1in.
Item Length
5in.
Item Weight
7.7 Oz
Item Width
5.7in.

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
PRAISE FORTHE NATURAL "No other book published on [Clinton] offers such smart analysis, judicious reporting, or accomplished prose. Klein's account of the presidency is remarkably balanced and intelligent." -Los Angeles Times "[The Natural] is a book with insight, balance, and bright writing . . . A century from now, some serious historian will be glad that Klein wrote this slender book . . . A mother lode of contemporary observations." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Funny, adroitly written, and, in sum, the first savvy synthesis of the Clinton Age." -William Kennedy, front page,New York Times Book Review PRAISE FORPRIMARY COLORS "An absolutely dazzling book, the best political novel in many years, one that manages to be simultaneously cynical and redemptive, funny and profound, reportorial, satirical, and thrilling." -Christopher Buckley,The New Yorker "Breaks all the rules and lives to tell about it . . . There is a wonderful honesty about [Primary Colors], a refusal to give in to the conventional interpretation of people and events that cripples so much that is written about politics." -Michael Lewis,New York Times Book Review "A delight to read. The author knows politics . . . and writes like a dream." -Alex Beam,Boston Globe
Dewey Decimal
320.973
Edition Description
Abridged Edition

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