The First Dissident : The Book of Job in Today's Politics

Rating:
Summary: not completely useless
Review: A variety of disconnected insights that have something to do with the Book of Job- some fairly interesting, others that went out of my head as quickly as they passed in. But having buried Safire, let me praised him: he does describe the Job story in a reasonably entertaining way, and he does coherently address the key issue raised by the book: how people respond to the world's injustice, and how (according to the book of Job) God responds to humanity's response. This could have been an excellent 30 page magazine article instead of a so-so 200 page book. But Safire writes well enough, and is fair-minded enough, to make even a so-so book readable.

Rating:
Summary: not completely useless
Review: A variety of disconnected insights that have something to do with the Book of Job- some fairly interesting, others that went out of my head as quickly as they passed in. But having buried Safire, let me praised him: he does describe the Job story in a reasonably entertaining way, and he does coherently address the key issue raised by the book: how people respond to the world's injustice, and how (according to the book of Job) God responds to humanity's response. This could have been an excellent 30 page magazine article instead of a so-so 200 page book. But Safire writes well enough, and is fair-minded enough, to make even a so-so book readable.