Title: Disappointimg, inside the beltway account of 96 election
Product review: Ok - so 1996 wasn't the most exciting presidential election ever, but this book fails to pick up on any interest that may be drawn from it. Focussing on those candidates who were well known in Washington, Woodward manages to miss any chance to discuss the surge and collapse of the Forbes campaign, give no adequate discussion of Perot and runs out of steam by the time his account reaches the party conventions. For an overseas reader, there is no insight into why Clinton was able to keep the Dole-Kemp campaign in his pocket for the whole of 95-96, nor any structure to Woodward's approach beyond chronology. Ultimately, this reader was forced to draw the conclusion that Woodward had got himself a contract to write the book, but was insufficiently interested in the material to do more than retype his notebooks.
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