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More copies of this ISBN:Looking Forward to It: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the American Electoral Processby Stephen Elliott
Review-a-Day (What is Review-a-Day?)"Elliott, like Joan Didion when she wrote Political Fictions, views the campaign mechanism from somewhere close to the main event, but still outside. The game is weird and amusing, but its stakes are frightfully real; the author is a little out of it, but he cares a lot. Looking Forward to It, which manages to be playful and earnest at once, is a compulsively readable document of those cold, wrenching months when John Kerry became the Democratic candidate for president." Anna Godbersen, Esquire (read the entire Esquire review) Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Stephen Elliott does not know what to think of American voters, this year's desperate and heated run for presidency, or the legitimacy of the political system. He doesn't know whether to love John Kerry or try to love Howard Dean or try, simply, to get excited about Politics. But what he does know is that most Americans are as confused, taxed and broken-hearted as he is. Looking Forward To It is the chronicle of one ordinary fellow's skeptical — and hilarious — journey through the election process. It is on the campaign trail that he will meet washed-out campaign managers, idealistic publicists, corrupt journalists, world-weary auditorium janitors, recovering drug addicts, and, of course, politicians. His report documents a journey into the center of "the thing", our country, where Americans high and low come together to participate in the most profound gesture of democracy: the election. Review:"Elliot is terrific and very funny writer, a keen observer with a gift for epigrams...and a knack for blindsiding you with his sharpest insights the way a skilled horror movie director orchestrates scares." The New York Times Book Review Review:"Stephen Elliott is one of the most versatile and gifted young writers we have. His fiction is wrenching, raw, and unsafe. His political writing, on the other hand, is savvy, loose, very funny and — truly — full of rare insights. Also: he is quite hairy." Dave Eggers Synopsis:"Looking Forward To It" is the chronicle of one ordinary fellow's skeptical--and hilarious--journey through the election process. On the democratic campaign trail Elliott meets idealistic publicists, world-weary auditorium janitors, recovering drug addicts, and, of course, politicians. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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