Best American political writing 2009
By: edited by Royce Flippin ; with an introduction by Matt Taibbi
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781586487836
Table of contents: title: Voting for change. Battle plans: how Obama won / Ryan Lizza ; The making (and remaking and remaking) of McCain / Robert Draper; title: The front-runner's fall / Joshua Green ; The insiders: How John McCain came to pick Sarah Palin / Jane Mayer ; The man who made Obama / Lisa Taddeo ; The spreadsheet psychic: how Nate Silver built a better crystal ball / Adam Sternbergh; title: Economy in crisis: postcards from the edge. Capitalist fools / Joseph E. Stiglitz ; Obama's bailout / Paul Krugman ; No return to normal / James K. Galbraith ; The new liberalism: how the economic crisis can help Obama redefine the Democrats / George Packer; title: The new new Presidency. The cool Presidency / Michelle Cottle ; Regarding Michelle Obama / Jennifer Senior ; President of everything / Brian Doherty ; Joe Biden, advisor in chief / John H. Richardson ; Ms. Kennedy regrets (she's unable to be in the Senate today) / Larissa MacFarquhar ; The man who ate the GOP / Michael Wolff ; Specter's epilogue / Terence Samuel; title: Over there. Obama's foreign policy at 100 / Ilan Goldenberg ; Obama's war / Michael Hastings ; Right at the edge / Dexter Filkins ; Believe me, it's torture / Christopher Hitchens ; U.S. torture: voices from the black sites / Mark Danner.