David Frum, Daily Beast
Few things seemed quite so dead in 2008 as the campaign book. The genre"”invented by Theodore White during the election of 1960"”was pushing 50. In the age of blogs and Twitter, who now would want to read a book about an election whose outcome was already known? Obama won, McCain lost, what more was there to say?The answer, it turned out, was: all the best stuff.
Few things seemed quite so dead in 2008 as the campaign book. The genre"”invented by Theodore White during the election of 1960"”was pushing 50. In the age of blogs and Twitter, who now would want to read a book about an election whose outcome was already known? Obama won, McCain lost, what more was there to say?The answer, it turned out, was: all the best stuff.
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