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Summary: A Change of Pace
Review: After reading this authors book on George Jr. - Shrub, I was excited to pick this one up. I figured I was going to get non-stop chapters of defense and support of President Clinton. Unfortuantly what I wanted only covered 50% of the book. The other half of the book covered Texas politics and personal columns on people she admired. The book is just a few years of her columns arranged by topic into sections of the book. This did make it easy for me to skip through the areas I was not interested in. Overall the book was funny and interesting. I found that when she was writing on national political issues, I tended to be with her step for step. She is not a blind supporter of President Clinton, but takes a more practical approach to her politics. She does not just disagree with all things Republican and agree with all things Democratic. I found that I even liked it when she did give Bill some grief about some of his many missteps. So I really enjoyed half of the book, and given the title was surprised that anything-other then national politics was covered. I just was not that interested in reading about a local Texas Senator working on a road project.
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Summary: A Change of Pace
Review: After reading this authors book on George Jr. - Shrub, I was excited to pick this one up. I figured I was going to get non-stop chapters of defense and support of President Clinton. Unfortuantly what I wanted only covered 50% of the book. The other half of the book covered Texas politics and personal columns on people she admired. The book is just a few years of her columns arranged by topic into sections of the book. This did make it easy for me to skip through the areas I was not interested in. Overall the book was funny and interesting. I found that when she was writing on national political issues, I tended to be with her step for step. She is not a blind supporter of President Clinton, but takes a more practical approach to her politics. She does not just disagree with all things Republican and agree with all things Democratic. I found that I even liked it when she did give Bill some grief about some of his many missteps. So I really enjoyed half of the book, and given the title was surprised that anything-other then national politics was covered. I just was not that interested in reading about a local Texas Senator working on a road project.
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Summary: Thank you Molly!
Review: Gotta love a woman with succh brains and wit! Although not quite as funny as previous books, this collections of essays are every bit as vital reading. The second section of essays "We The People" is a hoot, and her tribute to Barbara Jordan is very moving. THANK YOU MOLLY!
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Summary: Horrible Communist Book
Review: I read this book and I can tell you that Stalin would be proud! If you are looking for comic relief you might get it from this liberal fossil, but don't read it looking for any relevant information!
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Summary: What a hoot!
Review: In addition to enthralling us with her brilliant and hilarious upbraiding of those pols who do not live up to her standards of honesty and integrity, Ivins also uplifts with stories of those who do. I enjoyed her essays on Bob Bullock and Barbara Jordan so much I read them to friends who feel blue. Be good to yourself; go read them yourself!
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Summary: great collection of Ivins' columns
Review: It took Ivins some time to get around to writing another book (as she puts it, now she's an "arthur"), and I agree that it was too long. She is funny and sincere at the same time. In thirty years, when we try to explain the 1990s to kids who weren't even born then, this book will shed a lot of light. A nice thing about this book is that the columns are divvied up in to topical groupings, which makes it better organized and gives it a better flow. Other than that, it is standard Ivins: bitingly humourous political commentary with a Texan flavour. It says a lot for her that she likes her home state very much, and that it seems to mostly like her. It should: she's a credit to it.
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Summary: great collection of Ivins' columns
Review: It took Ivins some time to get around to writing another book (as she puts it, now she's an "arthur"), and I agree that it was too long. She is funny and sincere at the same time. In thirty years, when we try to explain the 1990s to kids who weren't even born then, this book will shed a lot of light. A nice thing about this book is that the columns are divvied up in to topical groupings, which makes it better organized and gives it a better flow. Other than that, it is standard Ivins: bitingly humourous political commentary with a Texan flavour. It says a lot for her that she likes her home state very much, and that it seems to mostly like her. It should: she's a credit to it.
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Summary: MOLLY DANCES A LIBERAL JIG
Review: Molly Ivins is funny - no doubt about it. She is the quintessential down-home Texas gal - tough as her cowhide boots and colorful as a sunset in her beloved Hill Country. She corners her pickup ever so gingerly so's not to disturb the longnecks resting comfortably in the new Jiffie-Mart styrofoam cooler. All the while she's oozing charm and waxing eloquent about her solutions to this nation's myriad problems - homophobia (hell, let em' marry and have kids), derelict politicians (all Republicans dontchaknow), welfare (we need more of it), and border control (we need less of it). She refers comically to Republican stalwarts Dick Armey, Tom Delay, and Bill Archer as a goofy trio. What must she really think of Bill "where's my pants" Clinton, his ill-humored spouse, and other liberal Democrat luminaries like: Maxine Waters, who never met an American she liked? John "gimme some money reparations" Conyers? Resident comedian-commies Sanders and McKinney? If she refers perjoratively to G.W. Bush as a mental "Shrub" what must she think of Al Gore - a college drop-out who was rejected soundly by his home state in the election. The same Al Gore is also the godson of Armand Hammer, well-known atheist and leader of the American Communist Party. I would wager Molly is favorable to all. I'd love to pop a Lone Star with Molly sometimes and find out why she thinks the way she does. But, I'd never advise anyone to dance with her, even if they brung her. Liberals like to spend yor money. She'll whirl you round the dance floor like a champ, but when you sit down yor wallet'll be picked clean!
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Summary: Ivins is liberal -- sensible and factual
Review: Molly Ivins is simply a top-notch columnist who documents her opinions with facts that cannot be denied. So, her detractors resort to calling her "liberal" as though that word has the Magical Power to transform sense and reason and humor and documentation into a negative. The far right, filled with paranoia and mistrust, needs to resort to name calling when they deal with this witty, tough, and very well-informed treasure. Why? She's got the goods on them. (She has been a thorn in Bush's side relentlessly cutting through his misdirection to reveal what he does. And, oh, how that annoys those who want to revive the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities -- that wonderful little gang that brought blacklisting and mud-slinging to the halls of congress.) Ivins is a patriotic writer -- too in love with her country and its Constitution to sit by quietly while it gets dismantled in the name of "security" by those who use fear as their political cover, and too sharp to allow the politics of destruction to go unpunished. Thanks to Molly Ivins, there is something to love about Texas after all!
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Summary: Ivins is liberal -- sensible and factual
Review: Molly Ivins is simply a top-notch columnist who documents her opinions with facts that cannot be denied. So, her detractors resort to calling her "liberal" as though that word has the Magical Power to transform sense and reason and humor and documentation into a negative. The far right, filled with paranoia and mistrust, needs to resort to name calling when they deal with this witty, tough, and very well-informed treasure. Why? She's got the goods on them. (She has been a thorn in Bush's side relentlessly cutting through his misdirection to reveal what he does. And, oh, how that annoys those who want to revive the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities -- that wonderful little gang that brought blacklisting and mud-slinging to the halls of congress.) Ivins is a patriotic writer -- too in love with her country and its Constitution to sit by quietly while it gets dismantled in the name of "security" by those who use fear as their political cover, and too sharp to allow the politics of destruction to go unpunished. Thanks to Molly Ivins, there is something to love about Texas after all!
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