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Summary: Draft Zell for President!
Review: I am a faithful centrist Democrat and after reading this book I want to suggest that everyone write to both Senator Miller and to the DNC requesting that Sen. Miller enter his hat in the ring for president in 2004. What a guy! He could crush all of these naive nine currently running.
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Summary: Whoa What a Guy!
Review: Just when I thought that every Democrat was evil I read this book! Well actually I have always respected Sen. Miller. I believe that he knows politics better than most of us. Miller is an example of how politics should be run: honestly, forcefully, and serving all Americans. The US Senate and Georgia (and the rest of the US) are losing a great member. This book is basiclly his memoirs and how politics has made him as a person. I would definetly recomend this to anyone regardless of ideology.
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Summary: An Opportunists Forever More
Review: As a lifelong Georgian who has worked for Zell Miller, this book comes as no surprise. Simply put, Zell is an unusually skilled opportunist and he's taking advantage of those who have an unsatiated appetite for republican demagagery (sic).He earned the moniker of "Zig-Zag Zell" for the many changes, shifts and turns on issues. When a state lottery became popular, Zell decided he was for it after having renounced it. You name the issue and you can bet Zell has changed his mind about it several times. And now with this book, he's taken advantage of his seat in Washington to draw attention to himself. Using little supportive detail or substance, he's written a "piss and vinegar" critique of today's democratic party that will no doubt sell like gangbusters among the republican illiterati. I'm glad my copy was given me as a gift. I certainly wouldn't have spent my own money on it. If you're considering buying Zell's book as a gift for another, consider a donation to their favorite charity.
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Summary: The Point?
Review: If Miller thinks that the Democrats are "out of step" with the country on many key issues, then why does he not become a Republican? The Democratic party continues to be accused of being "Republican Lite," even if some of its wings remain committed to their liberal ideals. What would the Democratic party have to gain by becoming more conservative? Leftists often accuse the U.S. political system and its two player-parties of being them same even now. So if the Democratic party would move more to the ideological Right, there really would be one party, dedicated to the impovrishment of the country's citizens and engaged in an endless and perpetual set of expensive wars abroad.
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Summary: Must Read
Review: This book is a must read for people of all political persuasions. Zell Miller exhibits a rare honesty in his writing, and whether you agree or disagree with him, no one will doubt after reading this book that Senator Miller, unlike most politicians, is writing what he truly believes when he's all alone in the quiet. A great inside scoop about how our country really looks and works.
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Summary: Republican Plant Tells Lies
Review: Zell Miller really needs to join the radical right of the Republican Party, and stand with the racists and war profiteers of the GOP. This book only documents his own lack of vision for this country and what it really stands for. Retire, Zell, and start snarfing up all that lobbyist money.
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Summary: He's a democrat not a Democrat
Review: In reading Senator Miller's book, one cannot help but wonder if the real purpose was to inspire a draft Zell movement within the Democratic party for 2004. If so, the rapid rise of Howard Dean and insurgency of Wes Clark during the course of its drafting and publication has probably made that moot. Despite its gratuitous, self-serving account of his life and political career, it is a worthy read because it does an excellent job of explaining why middle class whites, particularly in the south, feel like orphans when it comes to national political parties with little representation being provided by either, one of whom caters to the wealty and big business, and the other looking out for organized labor, minorities, gays and the non-working poor. Interestingly, he asserts that the special interests being served by the Republican party are not bringing turmoil to the GOP because they are shrewed enough to remain behind the curtain which prevents the masses from seeing how much influence they have. This point seems simplistic in my view, as it would appear that the masses are not ignorant but have reached the same conclusion as the Senator: when forced to choose between the two, Republicans are the lessor of two evils. While Senator Miller explains his support of President Bush on the basis of his willingness to undertake a fight in the name of freedom and to cut taxes, he points out that in general, Republicans are just as willing to spend taxpayer funds as Democrats, and that the only real difference is which special interest groups get the loot. You should read this book, not because of what it says about the Democratic party or its current crop of candidates (very little with a most personal jab at Howard Dean, whom he describes as a not very deep Vermont pond), but because of what it says about special interest money and the influence it has on Capital Hill. In that respect, it is a very candid assessment of the sad state of current affairs within our government. That, along with his observations about how political campaigning changed over his lifetime and his insight into Presidents Carter and Clinton make it worth reading.
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Summary: The Conscience of a Conservative REPUBLICAN
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The net result is that Mr. Miller would be well advised to offer a sequel entitle, "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative REPUBLICAN." Meanwhile, true conservatives - those who wish to conserve the Bill of Rights and the spirit of liberty they represent - would be well advised to join with the true, Barry Goldwater Republicans; otherwise known as the Libertarians. Read "The Conscience of a Conservative" by Barry M. Goldwater and kiss the compromising Republican Party goodbye!!!!
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Summary: Passionate writing from a sincere pen
Review: Zell Miller has eloquently combined autobiographical aspects, covering his childhood and rise to political leadership, as well as ideological notes and commentary. Senator Miller has the cajones to attack liberal democrats when he feels his "old South" sense of values is in disagreement with them. Throughout the book, the 44-year officeholder speaks candidly about many issues facing our country now, analyzing them thoroughly and thoughtfully. There are no sacred lambs here, although Miller takes a higher road than other smear merchants have in their books; the Senator remains on a pleasant basis with those he speaks of in the text. On the whole, Miller has worked hard to put together a worthwhile account of his life and the many lessons he has learned in many years, particularly throughout politics, as well as serious confrontation of the woes that face his esteemed nation in 2003.
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Summary: What ZELL didn't tell you: Lester Maddox's Key Man
Review: For those of us who have known Zell and watched his career, this book in which he abandons those who have supported him over the years is not surprising. So, he makes his case on the shortcomings of the Democratic Party but then jumps ship on the party and friends that elected him to every public office he held. WHAT HE DOES NOT BRAG ABOUT OR TELL HIS READERS IS THAT HE WAS LESTER MADDOX'S EXECUTIVE SECRETARY - CHIEF OF STAFF - WHEN THIS RACIST IDIOT WAS ELECTED GOVERNOR OF GEORIGA. ZELL WORKED FOR HIM FOR FOUR YEARS. It is not surprising to those of us who know him that he - at the end of his political career - returns to the comfort of the right wingers that he started off with!
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