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Title: Washington by Meg Greenfield ISBN: 1-58648-118-5 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.48 (21 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Washington by Meg Greenfield - A HUGE Disappointment
Comment: I have been in Washington since 1966, not long after Meg Greenfield arrived. I was press secrettary to a powerful Senator - a Senator incidentally that Meg Greenfield liked and respected. I was a producer at one of the networks, as well as a marketing director at one of Washington's luxury hotels. There is nothing in this book that one doesn't already know. I was surprised at Ms. Greenfield's low opinion of almost everybody she ever knew. I'm sure she must have been smart, but it takes more than that to run the editorial page at a major newspaper. After reading her book I'm surprised Kay Graham and Don Graham kept her on. Yes, Washington's a tough town and only the strong survive, but I would hope that the public could expect from it's major newspapers a voice with compassion and understanding and someone who is intellectually honest. Meg was none of these things and comes across as an embittered, down on life and people person. I'm glad I didn't know her. Perhaps she was tolerated at The Post because of her friendship with Kay Graham. She was a sad, sad woman who led a sad, lonely life. Washington is much more than Senators and Congressmen and White House staff. That seems to be all she knows and she doesn't know that very well. How could she? She never worked on the hill or at The White House. She never married or had children, how could she possibly know what it's like being married to Senator or Congressman, or to someone who puts in 18 hour days at The White House. Bottom line is that this book is a huge waste of time and money.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting -- yet one wants to know what was left out...
Comment: An interesting book, not least because Meg Greenfield's WASHINGTON teasingly promises more than it delivers, only hinting at the devastating expose that might have been. One wonders what information may have been in the many secretly coded files that Michael Beschloss edited into the finished manuscript. Did Greenfield name some names that Beschloss deleted? Did she tell some tales that he thought were better left untold? Unfortunately, Beschloss's essay doesn't give a clue. And neither does Katherine Graham's tribute.
What does come across clearly from the published work is that Greenfield knew many more secrets than she ever told, that she kept these secrets while working for Max Ascoli at The Reporter and Katherine Graham at the Washington Post, and that she may have taken some of her best stories with her to her grave.
One conclusion that occurs after reading WASHINGTON is that reporters and editors have a lot more information than they ever share with their readers -- and that the game of "I know something you don't know" is one of the favorite pastimes in our nation's capital.
To see that confession in print, Greenfield's book is well worth reading.
Rating: 1
Summary: It's terrible
Comment: I cannot agree more with the reviewer who panned this book. Meg Greenfield may have been a great journalist, but a great journalist does not a great author make.
She never gets to the POINT. While there are some mildly interesting stories about people in government, a far better book is (her former boss) Katharine Graham's Washington. Spend your money on it.
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Title: House and Senate, Third Edition by Ross K. Baker ISBN: 0393976114 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.20 |
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Title: Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today by Wendy Kaminer ISBN: 0807044113 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: How to Get a Job in Congress (Without Winning an Election) by Christopher Porter ISBN: 0970154607 Publisher: Blutarsky Media Pub. Date: 10 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Katharine Graham's Washington by Katharine Graham ISBN: 0375414711 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Commanders by Bob Woodward ISBN: 0743234758 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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