BOOKS OF THE TIMES, New York Times, August 11, 2009
In ‘Battle for America 2008,’ Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson Revisit the Presidential Campaign - Review - NYTimes.com
Presidential Horse Race, the 2008 Version
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
The authors’ retrospective reminds us of the daunting odds that Barack Obama overcame to win the White House.
Nine months after the presidential election of 2008, is there anything new or revealing to say about that momentous event? Can a post-mortem on the marathon campaign preceding that vote shed any new light on the participants or the process?
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THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA 2008
The Story of an Extraordinary Election
By Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson
415 pages. Viking. $29.95.
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Given the voluminous coverage of that race, it might seem as if the obvious answer to these questions were no. But “The Battle for America 2008,” a new book by Dan Balz, the lead political reporter for The Washington Post, and his former Post colleague Haynes Johnson, actually makes for engaging reading — for both politics addicts interested in small new details and the more casual reader interested in a broad, savvy overview of the run-up to a historic election.
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