The Battle for the White House: And the Soul of America

By Carole Coleman

The 2008 US presidential campaign was one of the most hard-fought, expensive, fascinating, and dramatic in living memory. Barack Obama's spectacular upset of heavily favored Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries riveted the world, and the battle wi

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905785526
• ISBN13: 9781905785520
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Liffey Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

enlightened

The previous reviewer, apparently an ardent misogynist, should apologize to Carol Coleman. If her words offended him, he must "resemble her remarks." Coleman is neither writing a feminist manifesto nor dissing Palin. A careful read shows that in this book, she continues to follow in the path of de Toqueville and Trollope while she explains America's arcane Presidential politics to a primarily Irish and European audience. In "The Battle for the White House," she moves from state to state, from Democratic campaign to Republican campaign verifying her own observations with those of other Irish expatriates. Writing from an Irish perspective gives her enough distance to see issues and politics in a light that we Americans might not see and to accurately reflect what American reactions are. Her stories not only reflect the larger media controversies of the campaign, but her interviews with voters still trying to make up their minds helps to explain the whimsical world of politics as the candidates fought for their primary victories.