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Last Debate
by
Jim Lehrer
It is the night of the presidential debate. The election is eight days away. Republican nominees James Meredith, a fundamentalist Christian whose ambitions border on white supremacy, is pitted against four reporters who have just discovered damaging information that could ruin his career. What unfolds during The Last Debate will change the course of electoral politics and ...more
Paperback, 368 pages
Published
September 21st 2000
by PublicAffairs
(first published 1995)
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An interesting read but with more pretensions to significance than it really had. I enjoyed it while considering it a pretty mediocre, unmemorable book.
The author's stature as a journalist led me to expect more from this "political novel." It is a fairly interesting plot about four journalists changing the course of an election by their tactics at a presidential debate. The premise was interesting; the moral questions worth pondering; but the writing was less than compelling.
I have been closely following most of the debates (all of them!) this election cycle so I thought this book would be timely---but it disappointed me.
I have been closely following most of the debates (all of them!) this election cycle so I thought this book would be timely---but it disappointed me.
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James Charles Lehrer is an American journalist and the news anchor for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, known for his role as a frequent debate moderator during elections. Lehrer is an author of non-fiction and fiction, drawing from his experiences and interests in history and politics.
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