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In the most eagerly awaited political memoir of the season, Mary Cheney, who served as a top campaign aide to her father, the vice president, presents a behind-the-scenes look at the high-intensity world of presidential politics and talks for the first time about her life, her family, and her role in the campaigns of 2000 and 2004.
As a senior adviser to her father, she was in the middle of every major event of the 2000 and 2004 presidential contests -- at the conventions, the debates, and on the trail. Both elections made history -- and so did Mary. And for the first time ever, she writes about what it was like to be at the center of her father's campaigns as his daughter, as a member of the senior staff, and, though she never intended it, as a political target for the other side.
Mary, her experiences, and her opinions, have been the subject of intense debate in the media and from activists on both ends of the political spectrum, but she has never spoken publicly about herself, her life, or her political views -- until now.
In Now It's My Turn, a frank, funny, and down-to-earth memoir, Mary Cheney describes life inside the bubble of a national campaign. She talks about her close relationship with her parents, how it feels to be pursued by the press, and what it was like when John Edwards and John Kerry made her sexual orientation an issue in live debates televised to millions of Americans. As she describes it, life inside a presidential campaign can be uplifting, frustrating, and heartbreaking, but no matter what else it may be, it's always entertaining.
From Publishers Weekly
This is not another coming-out story. Mary Cheney, whose father, Dick Cheney, was not upset by her sexual orientation, carefully avoids this overworked theme and focuses on her role in the 2000 and 2004 campaigns of his run for vice-president of the United States. By doing so, she pursues another tired topic, the insider look at political campaigns. Cheney's view lacks any introspection and verges on idolatry: not only does Father always know best but he is also calm, courageous, righteous, loving and wise. Whenever her dad's name comes up, Cheney's voice becomes sugary and worshipful. Her anecdotes and breezy delivery move the audio along nicely, but sometimes her narrative undercuts the hero she worships, as when her father, confronted by an audience of elementary schoolers instead of their parents, proceeds with a speech on school bonds that baffles his young audience. Those hoping for a look at Cheney's relationship with her partner, Heather Poe, will be disappointed. Cheney's voice seethes with anger at intrusions into her private life, but she fails to see that if the Democrats hadn't pushed her into the spotlight, there would be little interest in this book.
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Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。
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157 人中、141人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Horrible excuse for a book
2006/5/11
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I don't know what this book is trying to accomplish, it's neither history or a good political analysis nor a good biography. It seems like a bunch of poorly written passages hurried together to make money before her father's tenure. Her silence before the book makes it suspect.
152 人中、136人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
2006/5/11
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This book is, to borrow a phrase from the 1960s, dullsville. Mary doesn't address such issues as working for the political party (the Republicans) who spewed the most antigay, hate-filled rhetoric, including mail and car flyers, that were perhaps the most morally repulsive since the days of George Wallace and Lester Maddox's hate-filled mail and car flyers about African Americans. She doesn't address why she and her partner were kept off the stage at tens of Republican rallies. Why she hasn't marched for civil rights for GLBTs, though she is happy to accept those rights and take advantage of them, limited as they are. The book is poorly written, poorly edited, a mishmash of excuses and moral equivocations that make Mary, at the end, a figure to be pitied. How said to be part of a family that hides you away.
429 人中、373人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Um. Good lord this is bad.
2006/5/11
形式:ハードカバー
This is a staggeringly shallow and badly written book on both a conceptual and stylistic level. Cheney has little understanding of the complexity of the relationship between sexual identity, personal freedom, and contemporary politics; mostly she's turned this into a juvenile rant about the occasional tensions in her relatively cushy life - she seems to be impressed that she's caught in a limbo-state between her parents' politics and her sexuality, but she doesn't really grasp in any meaningful way what her situation really demands, nor does she have any ability to offer a thoughtful political perspective that manages to convey the combination of conservative philosophy with personal freedom.
This is a failed book, a vanity piece, and an embarrassing display of the decadence of privilege. She's an intellectual thug - ham-handed in her phrasing, blinkered and plodding in her political perspective, and utterly devoid of anything but fawning praise or insipid attacks, with no sophisticated balance between. Too bad, too, because her situation could have brought about a really thoughtful analytical perspective on how to develop a new understanding of the balance between traditional conservatism and new notions of individual liberty, but she's brought the whole debate back several steps.
This is a failed book, a vanity piece, and an embarrassing display of the decadence of privilege. She's an intellectual thug - ham-handed in her phrasing, blinkered and plodding in her political perspective, and utterly devoid of anything but fawning praise or insipid attacks, with no sophisticated balance between. Too bad, too, because her situation could have brought about a really thoughtful analytical perspective on how to develop a new understanding of the balance between traditional conservatism and new notions of individual liberty, but she's brought the whole debate back several steps.
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