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Title: Overtime! The Election 2000 Thriller by Larry J. Sabato ISBN: 0-321-10028-X Publisher: Longman Pub. Date: 27 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A rare impartial book on Election Day 2000
Comment: There are many books that have been written on the subject: from Bill Sammon's book "At Any Cost" on the right to Alan Dershowitz' "Supreme Injustice" on the left. Sabato's is a rare thing, a book that tries to be impartial, and succeeds.
It has chapters by legal advisors to both Gore's and Bush's sides in the legal wrangles that followed the election, as well as journalists and academics. If you want to know what happened, as seen by all sides, this is about the only book that will tell you that.
The only negative point I can make is a printing job that is somewhat careless; missing apostrophes abound, and my copy has two of one page and is missing another. But that does not bear on the book's merit itself.
Rating: 5
Summary: About Time: Overtime!
Comment: Not long before the chads stopped swinging in the last presidential election, pundits and pollsters were sharpening their wits and dusting off their finger pointing apparatus. Their goal was to isolate the who, what, where, why, and how of the controverial election results in Florida. That election brought everybody who was anybody, including the Supreme Court, to the edge of their seats for days. The indefatigable Sultan of Soundbites, UVA Professor Larry J. Sabato, had seen enough and done enough in politics to realize this was history, and deserved to be given a thorough investigation. So he collected a group of insiders and commentators to take their best shot at turning over stones and writing about what crawled out. The result was Overtime! The Election 2000 Thriller. No casual or serious student of US history should be without a copy. Congratulations to Dr. Sabato and Joshua Scott, his coauthor and editorial assistant from the UVA Center for Governmental Studies on a job exceptionally well done. Buy this book for yourself, and at the reasonable price, grab a couple copies for friends as well. It's guaranteed to reveal facts that even the media savvy US public has not to this point realized. Alyson L. Taylor-White, Editor, Virginia Review
Rating: 5
Summary: What the media didn't, and won't, tell us.
Comment: Will only political junkies or long-ago residents of Florida (I plead partly guilty of the first and fully guilty of the second), appreciate this book? I think not, but it does help to have given up excessive idealism ("Politics is so corrupt!") and excessive cynicism ("People are so corrupt!") in favor of an occasional visit to realism.
With the media giving us mainly--and often only--sensation, and seeing law as a struggle by imperfect human beings to create some justice in the world, I liked best the stories told by the attorneys for both sides.
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Title: Electing the President, 2000: The Insiders' View by Kathleen Jamieson, Paul Waldman ISBN: 0812218027 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Too Close to Call : The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election by Jeffrey Toobin ISBN: 0375761071 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Miami Herald Report: Democracy Held Hostage by Martin Merzer, Miami Herald, the Staff of The Miami Herald ISBN: 0312284527 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Unfinished Election of 2000 by Jack N. Rakove, Henry Brady, John Cooper ISBN: 0465068375 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Perfect Tie by James W. Ceaser, Andrew E. Busch ISBN: 0742508366 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (via NBN) Pub. Date: 04 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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