author: Joan Didion
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.50
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2016/11/02
date added: 2016/11/02
shelves: non-fiction
review:
'Insider Baseball: from Political Fictions' is a Vintage Short written by Joan Didion. It's from a book of political essays, and seems timely to be released in our current political season in the US.
Didion spent time covering the Dukakis campaign about 30 years ago when he was running against George H. W. Bush. I appreciated that while the book shows that the entire process would seem to be contrived, the writing lacks the kind of sneering cynicism that it might show if it were written by someone today. The title has a double meaning that refers to a staged game of toss on the tarmac of an airstrip as well as the sort of insider it takes to play this political game.
It would seem that things haven't seem to have changed much, except that the political rivalries seemed a bit gentler. It's also interesting that we continue to play this game knowing that it's all being artfully presented to us by the media.
I received a review copy of this ebook from Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing em to review this ebook.
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