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Playing with Fire by Lawrence O'Donnell Book Summary
From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it today
The 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O’Donnell’s political awakening, and in the decades since it has remained one of his abiding fascinations. For years he has deployed one of America’s shrewdest political minds to understanding its dynamics, not just because it is fascinating in itself, but because in it is contained the essence of what makes America different, and how we got to where we are now. Playing With Fire represents O’Donnell’s master class in American electioneering, embedded in the epic human drama of a system, and a country, coming apart at the seams in real time.
Nothing went according to the script. LBJ was confident he'd dispatch with Nixon, the GOP frontrunner; Johnson's greatest fear and real nemesis was RFK. But Kennedy and his team, despite their loathing of the president, weren't prepared to challenge their own party’s incumbent. Then, out of nowhere, Eugene McCarthy shocked everyone with his disloyalty and threw his hat in the ring to run against the president and the Vietnam War. A revolution seemed to be taking place, and LBJ, humiliated and bitter, began to look mortal. Then RFK leapt in, LBJ dropped out, and all hell broke loose. Two assassinations and a week of bloody riots in Chicago around the Democratic Convention later, and the old Democratic Party was a smoldering ruin, and, in the last triumph of old machine politics, Hubert Humphrey stood alone in the wreckage.
Suddenly Nixon was the frontrunner, having masterfully maintained a smooth façade behind which he feverishly held his party’s right and left wings in the fold, through a succession of ruthless maneuvers to see off George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, and the great outside threat to his new Southern Strategy, the arch-segregationist George Wallace. But then, amazingly, Humphrey began to close, and so, in late October, Nixon pulled off one of the greatest dirty tricks in American political history, an act that may well meet the statutory definition of treason. The tone was set for Watergate and all else that was to follow, all the way through to today.
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Book Name | Playing with Fire |
Genre | Political Science |
Author | Lawrence O'Donnell |
Published | 07 November 2017, Tuesday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 21.47 MB |
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The Greatest US Political Crime. Ever been to a party only to find out later that while there, you missed out on a most amazing moment? 1968 - I was but a teenager. But I was there. It is only from reading this book by someone for whom I have enormous respect, that I missed out on behind the scenes activity that changed the course of history. Laurence O’Donnell’s writing in a conversational style makes it easy to absorb the complicated world of politics - then and now. He guides the reader through perhaps the most transformational campaign in the history of The United States. So many players, so many twists and turns, if somehow had not happened, could have altered history. O’Donnell lays it all out in small digestible bites that are easy to swallow. At at the end, one knows not whether the meal of discovery is one that causes delight or indigestion. You get to decide.
terrific. A terrific read from O'Donnel. Points out how history can help explain the mess in the White House in 2017.
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The Playing with Fire book written by Lawrence O'Donnell was published on 07 November 2017, Tuesday in the Political Science category. A total of 171 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.
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