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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime |  | Authors: John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
Publisher: Harper
List Price: $27.99
Buy New: $16.79
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: X
Pages: 464
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.7
ISBN: 0061733636
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.932
EAN: 9780061733635
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 The Making of the President 2008 March 9, 2010
G. Ware Cornell Jr. (Weston FL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Forty eight years after the race depicted in Teddy White's masterful The Making of the President 1960 (Harper Perennial Political Classics) we are given the second best inside look at a modern presidential campaign. From dreams to forays around the country to caucuses and handlers, aspiring candidates pressed forward trying desperately to stave off elimination as their poll numbers plunged or surged depending on events far beyond their ability to control. In the end there should have been only two that mattered, Obama and McCain but even those finalists were buffeted by external events.
Is this any way to pick a President? Had the founding fathers foreseen television, campaign jets and Saturday Night Live, perhaps we might have a king instead.
The fun part of this book, starts and ends with Sarah Palin, who does nothing to enhance her public perception, But it is the pre-Palin accounts, centered around amitious politicians all convinced that their time has come, which give this book its flavor.
 Game Change:Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime March 8, 2010
C. (central Wisconsin)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was new and arrived on time. The book was a great read and the authors claim that the material is authentic.
If it is the information is juicy, offering a picture of all the players and how they proceeded through the last
presidental campaign with no holds barred. The book was easy to read and perhaps presented TOO much insite into the
candidates, but it was a fascinating book that I could not put down.
Carol
 Definite Liberal Bias March 8, 2010
G. Dedman (Plano, TX United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't know what made me think journalists for "New York" and "Time" magazines would write a book without a liberal bias. Any misstep during the campaign by Obama was glossed over or blamed on someone else. Problems were quickly solved by the all-knowing "chosen one". John McCain was protrayed as an obscenity-shouting madman. Sarah Palin comes off in the book as being a few steps away from being committed. The book should be sold with a large bottle of Pepto Bismol.
Something's missing... March 7, 2010
Annova
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I got to the end of this book I said, "something's missing" and realized that one person came through "Game Change" unscathed: Michelle Obama. All of the other campaign '08 characters' poor behavior/shortcomings/personal warts, etc., were highlighted and yet there was no mention of Michelle's frequent & offensive public comments about her husband and his shortcomings. Back then even Chris Matthews was shocked at her nasty remarks about her husband and asked (on "Hardball") if possibly she was just jealous of him. Immediately after this she disappeared from the campaign for a few months and when she returned it was with a new and pleasant attitude. The authors sure didn't miss mentioning when any of the other spouses behaved poorly. Other than that, it's an ok read and provides a pretty good description of how grueling a campaign can be. As other reviews have pointed out, "Game Change" makes it all too obvious that we need a better system for finding good candidates and enabling them to adequately show the voters their beliefs and goals.
no kidding... March 7, 2010
Gary A. Camarano (Chicago, IL USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
An enjoyable read, although many will challenge it based on not enough research and unidentified sources and contributors. But, deep down I think we all know its true - really doesn't matter what party - nature of the beast.
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