false <![CDATA[Democracy (Vintage International)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156917258m/425.jpg 425 11 Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler would like the press to forget that Inez's father is a murderer. And, in 1975, the year in which much of this bitterly funny novel is set, America is doing its best to lose track of its one-time client, the lethally hemorrhaging republic of South Vietnam.<br><br>As conceived by Joan Didion, these personages and events constitute the terminal fallout of democracy, a fallout that also includes fact-finding junkets, senatorial groupies, the international arms market, and the Orwellian newspeak of the political class. Moving deftly from Honolulu to Jakarta, between romance, farce, and tragedy, <b>Democracy</b> is a tour de force from a writer who can dissect an entire society with a single phrase. 1214244 1984 Democracy (Vintage International) total:365|5:88|4:131|3:113|2:27|1:6| 365 1363 536 34 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 10:59:10 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 11:54:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jul 25 07:53:49 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 07:54:57 -0700 2007
inez is not one of them.

le sigh.

democracy.

fun read, if you can handle jumping back and forth.

which i practice for with a jump rope.

so yeah.

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Democracy is filled with lines that are so f***ing good, it's nuts that one person thought of all of them. In my eyes this book is worth the ink used so we c...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon May 28 15:28:13 -0700 2007 Mon May 28 15:31:00 -0700 2007 Book of Common Prayer, Didion again explores issues of American middle class identity and foreign policy - this time through the eyes of a successful Congressman's wife (who has continued a long-running affair with an intelligence operative she met as a teenager)...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 13 11:25:45 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 13 11:35:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jan 14 08:08:45 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 08:10:38 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Thu Apr 19 10:24:54 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 19 10:28:55 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Mon May 21 14:24:21 -0700 2007 Mon May 21 14:24:21 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Thu Nov 27 14:56:31 -0800 2008 Tue Oct 21 14:34:18 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 27 14:56:31 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=425