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Review title: When everyone is a centrist, what does it mean?
Product review: I was disappointed with the book. The first part of the book had a description of 'Centrism' that is relatively well-reasoned. The majority of the book has to do with describing individual politicians (or political races) involving Centrists. This is where the book fails. Of the presidents since FDR, the author classifies them all as Centrists, with the exception of LBJ, Ford, and GHW Bush. The real kicker came when he describes GW Bush and his 2000 campaign as centrist, and using "Centrist" as a description for the Reagan Conservative Revolution is more than just a stretch.I was looking for some glimmer of light for those of us who are dismayed by the strong partisanship in the US today. Instead, the author seems to embrace the partisans (mostly on the right) as centrists, while he ignores real centrists such as John McCain or Christine Todd Whitman.
