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Title: The Votes That Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election by Howard Gillman ISBN: 0-226-29408-0 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Fast Production, Disappointing Results
Comment: The book is definitely biased, as the author admits. Some biased books are OK, but this one is really one-sided and employs such irrational discourse that you wonder how they accepted it as "academic." I think the topic was hot at the moment, and the publisher did not carefully read the whole thing. Also how can you explain that a professor committed so many grammatical errors, and the editor let them errors go? You thought that maybe they had real peer review and real editing before publishing. 'Guess a timely book can be published, even if it's biased and uses the style and grammar typically associated with writings of a struggling middle school student. All in all, this one's a mystery.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very good reporting, but poor editing
Comment: In this book, The Votes that Counted, Howard Gillman does a masterful job of reporting the facts that led up to the dispute, and the chronology of events during the aftermath of the Presidential Election in November, 2000.
Naturally, Gillman focuses on Florida, which was the state of most interest in the election, since its electoral votes would ultimately determine who would reside in the White House.
Gillman is, in my opinion, biased, with an evident fondness of the Democratic Party. There is, of course, nothing wrong with being opiniated, and Gillman does not let this interfere with his reporting of the evident facts.
Gillman's analysis of the election and the subsequent judicial participation is a good one, and certainly does correlate well with the title of the book; he explains well why he feels that the justices of the Supreme Court (all five of them that sided with Bush) determined who the next President of the United States would be.
As I was reading this book, I frequently found that I had to stop and re-read some sentences multiple times in order to understand the meaning; verbs were conjugated improperly, and improper tenses were used. I do not fault the author for these grammatical errors - I fault the editor for failing to catch and correct them.
I found this to be a valuable book, and one worthy of studying carefully as study of the Presidental election of 2000 and judicial intervention in that contest. I gave it four stars rather than five because of what I see as a lack of strong editing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Time to read it again
Comment: I first ran into this book at my college library and renewed it twice so I could take my time enjoying it. A year later I bought it. I play on reading it again on Spring Break.
Placing the reader inside the legal system so soon after the decision, the author was able to capture the feelings of the justices and judges while the emotions were still in the air.
The only major downfall of this book is the lack of logic expressed by the author several times to support his views. However, in any book in which the author admits a bias, I am inclined to assume there will be a slant to support his view when I read it.
I feel this book is so good, I still give it 5 stars.
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Title: A History of the Supreme Court by Bernard Schwartz ISBN: 0195093879 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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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 Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (American Politics and Political Economy) by Gerald N. Rosenberg ISBN: 0226727033 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited by Jeffrey A. Segal, Harold J. Spaeth ISBN: 0521789710 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 16 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The American Supreme Court (The Chicago History of American Civilization) by Robert G. McCloskey, Sanford Levinson ISBN: 0226556808 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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