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Title: THEY ONLY LOOK DEAD: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era by E.J. Dionne ISBN: 0-684-82700-X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 20 March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Mr. Dionne Is Guilty of Wishful Thinking & so Is His Book.
Comment: Over and over again Dionne inappropriately attempts clumsily to parallel modern politics, circumstances and consequences with ancient history. The bridge he imagines is just simply not there. This book tends to over-think simple, basic concepts. Dionne offers up a weak case.
Rating: 1
Summary: DIONNE OVERTHINKS , MISUNDERSTANDS SIMPLE CONCEPTS
Comment: E.J. Dionne's central thesis that the new (new?) Republican majority's philosophy in Congress is a throwback halfway to America's colonial times is this book's first -- and most perplexing! -- wrong turn. It gets worse from there. The author's assertion that 1994 was a fluke has no rationale basis of any kind. Dionne proves to be a poor prophet in that he presumes a Democrat takeover in Nov 1996 or shortly thereafter. To date that has not occurred and it has been nearly 7 years. Over and over again Dionne inappropriately and clumsily attempts to parallel modern politics, circumstances and consequences with ancient history. The worst thing about Dionne's theories is that they aren't even very interesting. Clearly Dionne is living in the past when forward-thinking is needed to save the Democrat party from itself. This book like Dionne's columns and TV commentary over-thinks rudimentary concepts. Lastly, Dionne suffers from wishful thinking.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hope Springs Eternal
Comment: E.J. Dionne is such a fine writer and historian that one can be forgiven for believing, for wanting to believe, that the self-flagellating and pusillanimous lot that is the Democratic Party leadership these days can actually pull the country from the neo-conservative, bible-thumping swamp in which it is mired. "They Only Look Dead" was written before the Supreme Court selected a president for us, before Good King George took us to war on a pretext (with strong Democratic support), and before the popular "no millionaire left behind" program. Mr. Dionne is well aware of the cyclical nature of history and draws many apt parallels between the Gilded Age and our present malaise. So maybe he's right, maybe (triple cliche alert) it is always darkest before the dawn, maybe the pendulum has swung too far to the right. Maybe if the party of FDR and JFK follows Mr. Dionne's advice and remembers who they are and where they came from then happy days will be here again.
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Title: WHY AMERICANS HATE POLITICS: THE DEATH OF THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS by E.J. Dionne ISBN: 0671778773 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: UP FROM CONSERVATISM by Michael Lind ISBN: 0684831864 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Radical Center : The Future of American Politics by Michael Lind, Ted Halsted ISBN: 0385720297 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman ISBN: 0393058506 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century by John A. Farrell ISBN: 0316185701 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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