Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
The gripping inside story of the 2008 presidential election, by two of the best political reporters in the country. “It’s one of the best books on politics of any kind I’ve read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22 .” — The Financial Times “It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true….More interesting is what we learn about the candidates their frailties, egos and almost super-human stamina.” — The Financial Times “I can’t put down this book!” —Stephen Colbert Game Change is the New York Times bestselling story of the 2008 presidential election, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the best political reporters in the country. In the spirit of Richard Ben Cramer’s What It Takes and Theodore H. White’s The Making of the President 1960 , this classic campaign trail book tells the defining story of a new era in American politics, going deeper behind the scenes of the Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin campaigns than any other account of the historic 2008 election.
My Review
It's a good story, I just wished it was written by someone else. My main gripe was the language. They fall into the pattern of using French or Latin to sound smart. Then they add to that a lot of jargon they refuse to explain. Coupled with the rest of their writing style this seems more like a very long tabloid article. Where it would be nice to go into greater depth of the mechanisms of the elections, the book just becomes shallower and shallower.