Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I noticed one reviewer roped in the Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." I think that is a good brush with which to paint this work. It mostly goes into the Democratic primaries and the Hillary-Barak contest and their personalities. It makes the case that Edwards' vanity (and philandering) and Clinton's inability to treat Barak as an equal caused those campaigns to founder. McCain-Palin is, justly, a third act and not gone into as much detail. Still, McCain comes across as even more of a loose canon unfettered by reality and Palin even more clueless than came across to me through news reports and debates of the time. Well, to go back to the quote, this is how electioneering is done in American today; more like People magazine than [b:The Federalist Papers|110331|The Federalist Papers|Alexander Hamilton|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1327865541s/110331.jpg|707252] and it should be told that way.
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