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Title: Stickin' : The Case for Loyalty by James Carville ISBN: 0-684-85773-1 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 18 January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.12 (26 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Carville is treading water here
Comment: This book reminds me of a typical Saturday Night Live movie: one good joke and 85 minutes of filler. The story of Carville's history with the Clintons and why he defended them is interesting and well-written. Unfortunately, once told, Carville needed to write over a hundred more pages in order to have a book-length volume. At almost every juncture where he could have written something insightful about loyalty (like his marriage to a very partisan Republican and his love for his racist grandmother), he rarely fails to back away, throw his hands in the air with a "gosh, ain't that weird?" sort of attitude, and leave it at that. If you're a hard-core partisan Democrat, you might like it just because it hits all the right spots by beating up on nearly every prominent Republican in sight. But that's not exactly tough, and other books like "Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot" do the same thing, but with humor and more than ten minutes of research.
Rating: 4
Summary: Ragin Cajun Is Ramblin But Real
Comment: In STICKIN, James Carville sounds conflicted. I think that is why he rambles a bit, rambles the way people sometimes do late at night, maybe after a few beers, when they are trying to deal with some painful choices they have made and navigate around convolutions. The rambling is honest. I admire it. Loyalty is a rambling, damned-if-you-do-and-damned-if-you-do-not issue. Questions over his loyalty to Bill Clinton led Carville to explore his feelings and experiences with loyalty, resulting in this book. Carville writes with a down-to-earth bluntness, using the pronouns THEY and YOU in their most colloquial form; his prose has an urban blue-collar sound that belies his roots in a Louisiana community named for his ancestors. He candidly shares his pain and loyalty conflicts about people and institutions, ranging from Clinton, to the Roman Catholic Church, to a racist but loving grandmother...while sharing his own far-from-Eagle-Scoutish history (even letting a sibling weigh in). Self-righteous he is not. He gleefully skewers the self-righteousness of some political foes (Gingrich, Bennett). Actually, he skewers Republicans in a global way, but pays loyal tribute to his Republican wife. Personally, I agree with Carville that the sex life of President Clinton is far less deserving of outrage than are some sell-outs Clinton made legislatively. Carville has some thoughtful things to say about McCarthyism, the brother of the Unabomber, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Robert E. Lee. I do not buy everything Carville says about loyalty (for example, his praise of one judge for having frankly admitted showing favoritism on the bench to a friend). I was disappointed that his chapter about loyalty in business turned out to be about choices of restaurants and airlines instead of the loyalty issues most of us grapple with in the work world. (Choosing between sticking by the company you work for versus sticking by consumers, clients or the public; choosing between the boss and a friend; etc.) But I am heartened by this book and other books by Carville. He is honest. He is passionate. He does well in sticking it to the right-wing claim for a monopoly on virtue.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Stick with your friemds.And stick it to your enemies."
Comment: I mainly know Carvillefrom Crossfire and other appearances on TV. While I almost always disagree with his political positions;I have always admired his quick wit and command of language.There was much more to his book than I ever expected and I strongly recommend it to anyone who follows politics ;particularly if your politics don't agree with his.As a matter of fact ;if Carville really irks you,all the more I suggest you give it a read.I guess the one thing that surprised me is how true to himself he is.His statement "I am not a loyal Republican.I am not an objective person.",tells it all.
Carville believes in loyalty to the n th. degree and does an excellent job of defining what Loyalty means.
Any person who is fortunate enough to have as loyal a friend as Carville ;would be blessed.
While I will probably continue to differ with him on most matters,I will appreciate his banter even more as a result of this book.I have no problem agreeing with him on Gingrich;but Loyalty explained his standing by his friend Clinton.
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Title: We're Right, They're Wrong : A Handbook for Spirited Progressives by James Carville ISBN: 0679769781 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 20 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title:The War Room ASIN: 1573624578 Publisher: Vidmark/Trimark Pub. Date: 24 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $9.98 |
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Title: Had Enough? : A Handbook for Fighting Back by James Carville ISBN: 0743255755 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: ...AND THE HORSE HE RODE IN ON : THE PEOPLE V. KENNETH STARR by James Carville ISBN: 0684857340 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 27 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Buck Up, Suck Up . . . and Come Back When You Foul Up : 12 Winning Secrets from the War Room by James Carville, Paul Begala ISBN: 0743224221 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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