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Title: Down and Dirty : The Plot to Steal the Presidency by Jake Tapper ISBN: 0-316-83264-2 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: March, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.54 (48 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: I'm glad I'm not a politician
Comment: Jake Tapper has very little nice to say about either side in the farce that was the 2000 Florida election. He's obviously turned off by GWB and I get the feeling he really doesn't like Gore. But he does take some time to document both honest Repubs and honest Dems (believe it or not there are some) at the county-government levels of the election machinery. Reading this, I feel mostly for those isolated individuals that were mostly concerned with doing the right thing, and ended up screwed no matter what they did. There is a lot of text in this book that says what the players are thinking (as opposed to doing) which gets you closer to the characters but seems out of place in journalism.
Tapper documents perdify, misadventure, and out-and-out stupidity on all THREE sides: Dems, Repubs, and the media. For whatever reason the media clearly ended up influencing the events in favor of the Republicans, and had they not the result might have been quite different.
The fact is that the GOP simply out-manuvered the Dems all though the campaign, and right through the post-election mess. If you want to see how they did it, this book is a good view into it. A must-read for anyone to be informed on contemporary politics.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Primer on Doing Anything to Win
Comment: Jake Tapper had a distinct advantage over all but a few Americans, even those who share his level of interest in the political system; he was an on the scene reporter covering the debacle called the 2000 presidential election. His on the scene portraits of political players provide penetrating insight into them and the process of which they were a part.
The most fascinating aspect of this book, which contains character portraits etched from activity recorded by Tapper, is the manner in which Republican operatives, particularly James Baker, engaged in Orwellian doublespeak. Baker and others were clearly interested in winning an election and did not care how it was accomplished. Whereas certain Democrats appear concerned about the overall impact of a tragically messy result and how it would unfavorably redound on the nation, Baker, Dole, Sweeney, Hatch, Engler etc. had no such qualms. Democrats can and should be faulted for not calling their sometimes obvious bluffs more often.
Tapper's work involves an American tragedy. He writes about the election in that context, clearly no happier with the way the game was played or the results than are millions of other unhappy Americans.
William Hare
Rating: 1
Summary: Dull And Plodding: The Plot To Bore The Reader
Comment: This cliche-ridden, clunky collection of quotes from the author's favored sources offers nothing that wasn't covered ad nauseum in the newspapers and the cable shout shows as it was happening in December 2000. Tapper offers no new insights, which could be tolerated in a more qualified writer. But Tapper doesn't have the skills to handle the material, and the result is a poorly written screed with all the punch of a press release for the Gore campaign. Reviewers sometimes lament that trees were felled to produce a book. In this case, I feel sorry for even the ink and glue.
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Title: Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 by Alan M. Dershowitz ISBN: 0195148274 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President by Vincent Bugliosi, Molly Ivins, Gerry Spence ISBN: 156025355X Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Unfinished Election of 2000 by Jack N. Rakove ISBN: 0465068375 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean ISBN: 031600023X Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 06 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind ISBN: 0743255453 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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