ON THE BOOKSHELVES
The race for the White House has heated up the market for political books. Here's a rundown of the latest hitting the shelves.
"THIRTY WAYS OF LOOKING AT HILLARY: REFLECTIONS BY WOMEN WRITERS"
Edited by Susan Morrison
254 pages. Harper. $23.95.
A spectrum of well-known female writers paints a collective portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton as a complex woman who invokes passionate feelings. Susan Cheever describes Clinton as an "enchanting" woman who resembles Jo March from "Little Women," while Dahlia Lithwick declares that Clinton comes off as "a scold," projecting a "mother-knows-best quality that is experienced less as comforting than as a rebuke." Don't look for policy analyses here, but instead, a study of personality.
"HOW TO RIG AN ELECTION: CONFESSIONS OF A REPUBLICAN OPERATIVE"
By Allen Raymond with Ian Spiegelman
240 pages. Simon & Schuster. $25
Allen Raymond is out of prison now, and out of politics, too. The former Republican campaign operative did his time in federal prison for dirty tricks in the 2002 election. Now he has written a book about his career in politics. Prepare yourself for his bite: "The worst kind of client you can have is one who holds too firmly to his or her ideals. ... Election operatives like myself and the kind of politicians who hire us have ensured that idealists can't win elections. Only the cynics are making the laws."
"THE GREAT AWAKENING: REVIVING FAITH & POLITICS IN A POST-RELIGIOUS RIGHT AMERICA"
By Jim Wallis
352 pages. HarperOne. $25.95
In a follow-up to his bestseller, "God's Politics," Jim Wallis explains that only a revival of faith can spark the changes in public opinion and political will needed to exact social change. Saying the time is ripe, Wallis, the founder of Sojourners, a global faith and justice network, issues a call to action for politics and religion to forge a common ground.
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