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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic book-length meditation on McCain2000, originally a much shorter Rolling Stone piece. Part think-piece, part investigative journalism, it's just Wallace doing his humanist/pomo thing. Nonetheless, an interesting/necessary perspective on McCain as an extraordinarily intelligent and honorable...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32156593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book, originally a long essay, for the late author, not the candidate. Still, this snap-shot from the 2000 campaign (specifically, from just after the post-New Hampshire afterglow through the first week or so of the brutally negative S.C. primary) makes one realize in a visceral, interna...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43455420">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[DFW's book on McCain's failed 2000 primary run vs. GWB was originally commissioned and published by Rolling Stone, though in a shorter form, and seems to be written for the Rolling Stone readership. The book is partly a 21st century mini-update on Tim Crouse's The Boys On The Bus and partly an essay...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35708357">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love when DFW puts on his journalism hat for a romp through the absurd.  Only he can write a piece like Big Red Son (which I read on a drive under Arizona's Big Red Sun - HIYO) about the adult movie industry and make it high brow and insightful as a book review of Fowler's Modern English Usage Dic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35620811">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not going to give you my summation (which will most likely be clumsy and fall short of the floor) of what underlying message D.F.W. conveyed in McCain's Promise (where is the italics option when it is needed (can we do something about this Goodreads please)) b/c it will only take away from what...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34606846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is still relevant because the main ideas DFW explores has to do with navigating between the real and the packaged and how our own cynicism plays into how we approach voting or not voting.  Apparently the publishers realized this too because the book came out in April or May of 2008 (the fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33433031">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[DFW was asked to join the Straight Talk Express during the 2000 primaries. The way he talks about McCain sounds like he's talking about Obama, except that McCain failed to do what Obama has overwhelmingly accomplished. It puts the recent election into some very interesting perspective and helps to s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44817640">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[just fantastic. DFW is sorely missed. what's great about this book is that it's just as relevant after mccain's decade of losses. it's not a book about the 2000 campaign or mccain so much as it's a book about political reporters and field producers--written from the perspective of a fascinated bysta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48149327">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A cynical reprint of one essay in Wallace's much more comprehensive book <u>Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays</u>, 2006, written in 2000 for <u>Rolling Stone</u>.  In other words this is McCain on the 2000<br/>nomination campaign trail, not McCain candidate for 2008 Presidency.  Misrepresentation. Sorry the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45559295">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was great.  I learned alot about McCain and what a true hero he really is.  However it also revealed how much he ran his campaign like Bush did against him when it came to battling Obama.  It's sad that he changed and sold his values out the window-as far as campaigning goes.  While he was once...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37703626">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The foreword ruined this book for me by summarizing all of Wallace's ramblings into a few pages. When I was told that the essay might actually have a clear point, I suddenly didn't like it as much.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just another log on my David Foster Wallace cabin. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reed just finished this. We saw it at the book store and thought &quot;Wow David Foster Wallace, the David Foster Wallace, covering politics? This has to be something special.&quot; Reed says its the most cynical book he's ever read (and Reed's read all of Foster Wallace and all of my book Russian f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25295313">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everything that could be said about this book is covered by Weisberg [of Slate:] in the Foreward.  I also agree with Weisberg's small criticism of the roadies/techs having a special savvy that could out-insight the others.  It's a cliche--and surprisingly, DFW acknowledges all other cynical cliches ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42007131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an amazing and fantastic chapter from &quot;Consider the Lobster.&quot;  And when I say chapter I mean &quot;over 100 pages.&quot;  It is the most complete portrait of both McCain2000 and the old maverick before he became a complete dick.<br/><br/>All of the dirty tricks that bush played o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36525537">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[if you like self conscience reportage in the style of your favorite twenty one year old rolling stone writer- go for it.  there's enough here to make you forget that the subject is a serious political figure who represents a generation of encrusted yet important men who still hold the stakes in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27074423">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Light and lively reporting from the 2000 campaign.  David Foster Wallace wisely gives up early any attempt to interact with McCain.  Instead he follows the campaign road-dogs that have seen it all.  You should probably read everything DFW wrote, this being no exception.  It's nice that it's been exp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34285602">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the last book I read. It's short, a very long magazine article, really. But it says so much about the process of how we elect a president and the MSM's approach to news coverage that you easily lose sight that the book is supposed to be about McCain's 2000 campaign.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this one during the election to try to get some nonpartisan insight into the candidate. The book was insightful into the campaign trail, but honestly not very insightful to the candidate himself and his worthiness for office. I was a disappointed. ]]></body>
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