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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: 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: 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: Don't read this outdated liberal fossil's book!
Review: Molly Ivins is smart, thoughtful, funny, and well armed with the facts. I wish I could carry her around with me so she could cite examples of the hypocrisy, mendacity, and corruptibility of our elected officials when all I can say is, "they're all a bunch of lying thieves." I wish I could carry her around with me because she has such a way with words and because, at the end of it all, she has hope for the future, which is terribly reassuring after she tells us about the present. Molly Ivins is the Susan Lucci of the Pulitzer. Award her already!
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Summary: Thank the Good Lord for Molly Ivins!
Review: Molly Ivins is so dead-on funny that you will find yourself re-reading this book when you need a little chuckle. She takes the potentially deeply depressing subject of "politics" and pokes enough fun at it to keep you reading--and learning about how things really work--all the way through. Once she's opened your eyes, you'll see a lot of things you'd missed before, and you'll be grateful to her for it.
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Summary: A Joy. Must read for anyone who cares about politics.
Review: Molly Ivins work is a delight and a joy, and this is her at her best. Her optimism, humor, intelligence and willingness to examine real issues make this books a delight. Don't get it if you don't have time to read it; I stayed up to 4 in the morning on a worknight to finish it. She is also hilarious.
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Summary: Horrible Communist Book
Review: Once more, Molly Ivins tells it like it is, with keen insight and a wonderful gift for showing the hilarious side of whatever is going on. You will learn a lot reading her columns, and have many good belly laughs as you learn. What more can you ask?
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Summary: A Second Helping of Molly Ivins' Informative Hilarity
Review: Once more, Molly Ivins tells it like it is, with keen insight and a wonderful gift for showing the hilarious side of whatever is going on. You will learn a lot reading her columns, and have many good belly laughs as you learn. What more can you ask?
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Summary: My favorite "arthur"
Review: One of the most moving passages I've ever read was in a column by Molly Ivins a few months ago. "Get the damn mammogram!" I could almost hear her growling, after telling her readers she had breast cancer. Think about having the power to save a person's life like that. Who knows how many women thought about their own health after reading Ms. Ivins' words? The influence Ms. Ivins wields has always been benign. She tells it like it is, warts 'n' all (and in the Texas Lege, it appears, there are more than a few warts). I admire her greatly, and count her as a role model. Read Molly Ivins' books. She is biting, sarcastic, downright rude at times. She is also insightful and compassionate. To say the least, she is one of my favorite "arthurs."
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