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Friday, January 16, 2004
BOOK REVIEW: GROWING UP REPUBLICAN (1996) * (1 star out of 4).
External link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060183616/qid=1074273045/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-6150483-5904864?v=glance&s=books
This biography of former New Jersey governor Christie Whitman starts out promising, with author Patricia Beard marveling at the fact that she was given such unfettered access to Whitman's private records. But the book Beard wrote is so fawning and one-sided, that it really fails to convey any insight into her life or character. I have no problem with the ideology expressed in this book or the way it is expressed, and my review has nothing to do with that at all. In fact, I like Governor Whitman, and even when I don't agree with her, I generally find her to be both reasonable and moderate. But in this book, all her successes were against the odds, and all her failures were somebody else's fault. By going so over the top to try to make Whitman seem sympathetic, Beard managed to make her subject come off even more unsympatheticly than she would have if the book were a scathing attack on her.
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