Enabler’s Revenge
David Runciman: John Edwards, 25 March 2010
The Politician: An Insider’s Account of John Edwards’s Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down
by Andrew Young.
Thomas Dunne, 301 pp., $24.99, January 2010,978 0 312 64065 1 Show More
by Andrew Young.
Thomas Dunne, 301 pp., $24.99, January 2010,
Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House
by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.
Viking, 448 pp., £25, January 2010,978 0 670 91802 7 Show More
by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.
Viking, 448 pp., £25, January 2010,
“... I thought, wow!, the Republican worldview is even weirder than I’d imagined: it starts with Franco and then somehow works out from there. But then I realised they must mean the Spanish-American War (McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, the dawn of empire etc), a much more obvious place for such a potted history to start. I’m sure Heilemann and Halperin know ... ”