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Summary: Miller IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH for the Democratic Party!
Review: Really, this work is a paen to fascism; the Miller elicits a knee-jerk subservience to George W. Bush that leads one to conclude that Miller's ... was as erect as possible just thinking about his "commander and chief."Miller's subconcious homoerotica would belong next to Henry Miller's works, save for the fact that Henry was a literary giant, and Zell, well, let's just say that this tome is the "dark and stormy night" of fascist-loving devotionals.
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Summary: Naive Nine
Review: Someone buy nine copies of this book and send it to those clueless Dems running for president. I don't care for Dubya one little bit . . . but I wouldn't trust the Oval Office to any of these losers. Aren't there other options? Hopefully one of the Naive Nine, as Zell calls them, will read this book and wise up to the cares and concerns of the people who actually vote in their party in places other than New York City and Los Angeles.
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Summary: Do we need two Republican Party's Zell?
Review: This guy comes from a long line of political opportunists from the south. I remember him giving rousing speeches on behalf of Bill Clinton back in 1992 and in 96. If Zell had his way we would have a two party system. Two conservative parties! One is enough Zell. So glad you are retiring.
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Summary: Zell's 2x4 to the Heads of Fellow Dems
Review: What a fun read! Incredulous that he would cite names & not care who he ticks off, I laughed out loud on a number of occasions (out of surprise as much as admiration for his cojonnes). Zell absolutely takes his Democratic family to the woodshed, walloping left & right. I can't count the number of times my mouth dropped open & I uttered "Oh my God!" while reading this book. I'm a rock-solid Democrat, & while I don't agree w/ everything he says, he does have a point: the Dem Party is in danger of collapsing at the center because it's pulled so far to the fringes by so many well-meaning but short-sighted groups.
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Summary: Essential Reading
Review: Essential reading for conservative, centrist, and liberal alike. Anyone who cares about this country, regardless of political persuasion, will benefit from this true patriot's keen understanding of the political process, the faults which keep it from being all it can for the American people, and how to fix these faults. A NATIONAL PARTY NO MORE is a textbook in political ethics which should be read on K Street, Wall Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, and on your street. Kudos Senator Miller! You're my kind of politician.
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Summary: Moving in the Right Direction
Review: I loved this book. Zell Miller hit the nail on the head with his interpretation of the current national Democratic Party. It's a shame more Democrats aren't listening to Miller's insightful examinations of the state of politics today.
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Summary: The Debate Begins
Review: I've had an opportunity to read this book in its manuscript form and it is sure to launch a national debate about the future of the Democratic Party. Senator Miller is to be congratulated for his honest review of the current political landscape. The national Democratic Party has all but written off the south, and unless that changes, its future is surely in doubt. A must read for all who care deeply about the future of this country.
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Summary: I love Zell Miller, but...
Review: unlike the majority of reviewers here, I actually read the book. It's a benign read by a very nice man. And to all those reviewers who call Miller a "Republican," remember that Kennedy fought Communism and cut taxes by historic amounts (to the everlasting shame of his overflowing brother Teddy). JFK would be booted right out of today's Democratic party as the 'Republican' he was. Which tells you just how far off the deep end the Dems have jumped. Back to Zell. He tells his life story in this book, sort of establishing his Democratic Pary bona fides. Isn't it funny that at one time Democrats were allowed to be pro-life? Al Gore, Richard Gephardt, Bill Clinton, so many have had to abandon their conscience just to stay in their party's good graces when the abortion lobby took over. Miller never did. He's stayed true to his principles and finds himself almost always being dragged leftward with his party. So he's leaving politics. I think if he'd stayed governor of Georgia, he'd have a taste for it still. But to be thrown in amongst the radicals in Washington has got to be a bit of a shock for a good ol' boy. The book does not flow, though. I found myself frequently somewhere on the page, wondering how I'd gotten there and not remembering a word of what I'd just read. There are portions of this book that are memorable, that make you feel this is a good man with a sharp sense of what he believes and wants. He should have put his book through 4 or 5 more rewrites with an editor who was truly his friend. He could have sharpened and refined his message and used the autobiographical nature of the narrative to build and strengthen his case. Instead we get a collection of chapters that look as though each was written as a column and then all were collected and bound together: the Collected Works of Zell Miller. That said, I'm glad I read Miller's book. It makes me wish he had put his money where his mouth is and switched parties temporarily the day Jumpin' Jim Jeffords pulled the ol' bait and switch on the voters of New Hampshire and shifted control of the Senate to the 'selected, not elected' Democrats. Just so fairness could rule. He laments the unscrupulousness of his Democratic colleagues, but when he had the power to put a stop to it, he was MIA. Must be a Democrat after all, no matter how conservative.
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Summary: Sad but true
Review: Zell Miller's book is a portrait of a man basically betrayed by what used to be a truly NATIONAL party. Instead, Miller shows us a Democratic party dominated by extremists, and hardly recognizable as the part of JFK. Miller comes across as a man with values weary with disillusion. In that sense, this is one of the saddest and most touching politcal books I've ever read. It appears that there is no room left in the Democratic Party for a moderate or conservative viewpoint. Have we come so far now that liberal is synonomous with Democrat? Must you take the morally perilous road in order to placate your party? Be he conservative Democrat, disillusioned Independent, Zell Miller and his book are a throwback to an earlier era where country and beliefs where held above fringe groups and the "nothing is wrong unless it's Christian, military, or pro-life in nature" mentality. Where is there for a compassionate man who believes in a strong America, a moral party platform, and compassionate social system left to go?
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Summary: Miller: Pull Yourself Up by Your Bootstraps
Review: In A NATIONAL PARTY NO MORE, Senator Zell Miller explains his disenchantment with his own Democratic Party and why he has, over the years, sided far more with Republican values. What distinguishes Miller's book from the many other and similar screeds that lash out at the opposing side is his penchant for using homilies and folksy metaphors to indict a liberal way of life that he sees as having strayed greatly from the time-honored Democratic values of presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy. Miller opposes gun control, abortion, and the current tendency for liberals to see America as a sociological petri dish from which unwanted bedrock changes can be instituted using what he sees as a twisted reading of the Constitution. Miller spends much of his book hiking down a Georgia memory lane. He learned first hand how to go out and get the vote by meeting with innumerable country folk, most of whom are well capable of distinguishing between a hand and a hand out during troubled times. Miller's writing style matches his philosophy-an easygoing belief in the ability of his constituency to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. However, he does not do enough to probe why his belief in self-sufficiency is inherently preferable to the leftist belief that tossing money at problems is the best way to solve them. Still, A NATIONAL PARTY NO MORE is a thought-provoking attempt by an admittedly old-fashioned political warrior to comprehend why this nation is fast approaching an election that will pull this nation in a direction that will be either disastrously wrong or confidently right.
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