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Title: Deep Background by David Corn ISBN: 0-312-27263-4 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.69 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best political novel of the year
Comment: Combine the political acumen of Allen Drury with the plotmanship of John Grisham. Throw in some flashes of wit and plays on every political cliche of recent years (Governor-Presidential candidate personally oversees execution of retarded black man for campaign advantage; First Lady as co-President and ambitious candidate; Chappaquiddick-style drowning of appealing young woman; corrupt covert operations with high-level approval, etc.), and you have the flavor of David Corn's impressive debut novel, Deep Background. The President is killed, but not by a conspiracy. Even the cover-up isn't truly conspiratorial. But the killer's motive, and the lethal efforts of high officials to prevent its disclosure, drive this complex and (because it's so very plausible) frightening tale that will leave you hungry for real-world heroes like Corn's.
Rating: 2
Summary: It could have been a contender...
Comment: This book has all the elements for a highly charged political tour de force -- a presidential assassination, White House intrigue, deep cover hit squad, conspiracy at the CIA, don't ask-don't tell Marines, etc. Unfortunately, the elements are handled in too rambling and disjointed a manner to work. Even the foray into the wonderful city of New Orleans is stiff and wooden and, ultimately, boring. The central character, White House aide Nick Addis, just can't seem to catch a break. Everyone he comes in contact with while searching for answers about the assassination of President Hanover -- and whether a shady land deal back in Hanover's home state of Louisiana where he was governor has any bearing -- ends up dead, maimed, or missing. All of this should have provided fodder for some super-charged action and complexity of plot, but it just doesn't happen. How deeply knowledgeable about or even involved in the assassination plot is the widowed First Lady, or the Vice President-cum-new president, or assorted other Cabinet members and government officials? By the end of the book, I was still in the dark about exactly what happened, why it happened, or "who done it" all. At 370 pages, this was a good length to read in 1 sitting; instead, it took me 5 days, with 2 other books read in between. The author obviously has a deep working knowledge of the inner workings of Washington but, alas, that is not enough to make the concept of this offering work -- which is too bad, because it SHOULD have worked.
Rating: 4
Summary: very good
Comment: very well written, i liked how it jumped back and forth from the different people involved. It was one those books that I started reading and I couldn't put down and that is my way of knowing that it is a very good book.
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Title: The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception by DAVID CORN ISBN: 1400050669 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth by Joe Conason ISBN: 0312315600 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 25 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News by Eric Alterman ISBN: 0465001769 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Zero Game by Brad Meltzer ISBN: 0446530980 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 20 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman ISBN: 0393058506 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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