Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Buy Me Today!

"The Assault on Reason turns out to be less a partisan, election-cycle harangue than a fiercely argued brief about the current Bush White House that is grounded in copiously footnoted citations from newspaper articles, Congressional testimony and commission reports — a brief that is as powerful in making its points about the implications of this administration’s policies as the author’s 2006 book, “An Inconvenient Truth,” was in making its points about the fallout of global warming...and it does so not with the calculated, sound-bite-conscious tone of many political-platform-type books, but with the sort of wonky ardor that made both the book and movie versions of “An Inconvenient Truth” so bluntly effective...This book shows a fiery, throw-caution-to-the winds Al Gore, who, whether or not he runs for the White House again, has decided to lay it all on the line with a blistering assessment of the Bush administration and the state of public discourse in America at this 'fateful juncture' in history."

[From the New York Times 'Books of the Times' Section, May 22nd 2007]

2 comments:

Peter Matthes said...

Am I the only one that thinks that a Gore/Edwards Democratic ticket is the only way to go in 08?

CJ said...

Two words...'Dream Team'!