The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Suskind's book

    By Flavius on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 11:07am |

    ... is reviewed by Brad Delong . The link is below in the first comment(don't ask!)

    It (the review) is worth reading. Whether you agree or disagree with Brad, it sort of provides a check list of the issues you have to consider in trying to come to a rational position about Obama's record on the economy.

    As to the book itself, well whether or not you disagree with Suskind, it's impressive in all the stuff it covers. But not in its manipulative argument by adjective or anecdote. From Brad's review:

         A few weeks later Summers stepped up offering ... the position Romer had voiced .... As they left ... Romer said, "Larry I don't think I've ever liked you so much.." "Don't worry," [Summers] quipped, "I'm sure the feeling will pass. ..." 

    i.e. Romer and Summers were right. Oh? Suppose Geithner and Orzag had had that exchange. Would that make them right?

    But that's a whole n'other subject. Read Brad's review.

    Comments

    here's the link

     

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-delong/ron-suskind-confidence-men-review-_b_979418.html


    by Flavius on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 11:39am

     

    Ah yes... Another day in book selling land...

     

    Artappraiser posted this about a week ago...

    9 Juicy Bits from Ron Suskind’s Book on the first two years of the Obama administration

    It's worth checking it out for the links.

     

    ~OGD~


    by oldenGoldenDecoy on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 8:16pm

    I am trying to keep up with the reading of so many links.

    What do you know about this heading in the book  

    Obama vs. Krugman


    by Resistance on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 12:27am

    I might have know AA would beat me to punch . And more amusingly , which couldn't have been hard.

    Don't know whether I could recommend that any one shell out hard cash for the tome ( I have a loaner)but Brad's review is worth reading.

    Unless you prefer waiting for the All Singing, All Dancing Hollywood version coming  soon to the screen at your neighborhood cinema. Or Broadway's  with Bryn Terfel in the Summers role and Audra McDonald  as Sheila Blair.Or Elizabeth Warren.


    by Flavius on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 12:52am