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Title: Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Forever by Thomas Daschle, Michael D'Orso ISBN: 0-7393-0641-3 Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Inside politics
Comment: South Dakota Senator Daschle describes the 107th congress and its events, such as the September 11 attacks, the anthrax contamination of the Senate's Office Building, and other dramatic episodes during his term as majority leader. Daschle talks about the loss of bipartisanship and his disagreement with President Bush and Republican House Speaker Tom De Lay. This audio book is a good, inside account of the workings of the U.S. government.
Rating: 3
Summary: Partisan, but very interesting ...
Comment: "Like No Other Time" is Daschle's stream-of-consciousness diary of the last couple of years, covering Bush's arrival, the evenly split Senate, Sept. 11, the Anthrax attacks, Afghanistan, the Jeffords' switch, Paul Wellstone's death, his ruminations on running for president, Iraq, and the 2002 elections. I found Daschle to be a very engaging writer and really appreciated his up-close insight over what were intriguing yet distant news stories for me.
Unfortunately, Daschle's highly partisan opinions (e.g., Republicans are bad, Democrats are good) offset some very good reporting and commentary. I almost quit the book after the first few chapters. No doubt Republicans dealt him some underhanded blows, but responding with the same black-and-white mentality does not help his own credibility.
Some of "Like No Other Time", specifically the terrorist attacks, indeed describes heretofore extremely unique events that could make for interesting reading years from now. However, much of the events described in "Like No Other Time" is definitely like every other time in Washington, and while interesting now, probably won't sustain the book through multiple printings.
I like this book and, after completing it, like Tom Daschle, but "Like No Other Time" is really more of a serial magazine interview/article rather than history book.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Anthrax Book
Comment: Tom Daschle wrote this book with another author, or I think he dictated the book to the author would the produced what we have to read. I felt this way after reading the text because the book reads like a two hour C-SPAN interview without the questions. I may be a little too hard on the team here, but I wanted more then just some rambling account of these two years. I was looking for behind the scenes, blow by blow accounts of some of the political battles Daschle was involved in. I wanted dialog like Woodward always seems to fill his books up with. His guy was meeting with the President and all the other highest-ranking members of the government and he could barely give me the details of when or if he talked to them let alone a good feel for the conversation.
The book spends about 40% of its time on the anthrax attacks to his office and about 5% on the attacks on 9-11. Ok, I understand that his office received one of the letters, but in the big picture of the past two years, September 11th and what he was involved in is more important and interesting to me then his office being off limits for a few months. And what is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, this book is about the 107th Congress, I would have appreciated it if the author could have held his ego in check and not given me the Cliff Notes version of his biography. All it did for me was to get me to skip pages.
I should not spend all my time on the negatives. I found the information on the Jim Jeffords switch very interesting as well as the information on the homeland security and Iraq war bills. I thought his comments on the Wellstone memorial service to be insightful and a bit surprising. The author did have an interesting insight into the process and I found a lot of what he had to say informative. Overall, the book was easy to read and full of good information. I will give it credit for that, it is just that I expected and wanted more. Maybe the author is holding back for his end of career memoirs to give us the really good inside stuff I was looking for.
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Title: Had Enough: A Handbook for Fighting Back by James Carville, Jeff Nussbaum ISBN: 0743255755 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind ISBN: 0743255453 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America by Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose ISBN: 0375507523 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception by David Corn ISBN: 1400050669 Publisher: Crown Publishers Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean ISBN: 031600023X Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 06 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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