| RUSSIAN ROULETTE The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump Michael Isikoff David Corn New York: Hachette Book Group, March 2018 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-53872-875-8 | ||||
| ISBN 1-53872-875-3 | 339pp. | HC | $30.00 | |
| Page 40: | "The story of Sergei Magnitsky was a tragedy." |
| Verb tense: S/B "is". |
| Page 42: | "During the Cold War, the Soviets had beamed radioactive microwaves at the U.S. embassy in Moscow..." |
| Terminology: S/B "microwaves". (I'm guessing this refers to the Great Seal of the U.S. that was a gift to the embassy and concealed a microphone and transponder which permitted eavesdropping>) |
| Page 80: | "Sater's proposal called for a tower that would have fifteen floors of hotels rooms..." | Typo: S/B "hotel". |
| Page 97: | "The letter eventually leaked and caused a brief headache for McCain, just as his campaign was getting underway." |
| Missing space: S/B "under way". |
| Page 130: | "Guccifer 2.0 scoffed at DNC chair Wasserman-Schultz's claim." |
| Index error: Wasserman-Schultz's name is not indexed on this page. |
| Page 144: | "The letter eventually leaked and caused a brief headache for McCain, just as his campaign was getting underway." |
| Missing space: S/B "under way". |
| Page 158: | "Page asked Trump campaign official, J. D, Gordon, for permission to travel to Russia for the event." |
| Extra commas: S/B "official J. D. Gordon". (Alternatively, insert the article "a" before "Trump.") |
| Page 187: | "At one point, Daniel took a depth breath and told him..." |
| Spelling: S/B "deep". |
| Pages 201-202: | "...had pitched Marc Elias, the Democratic lawyer who served as both the chief counsel for the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee." |
| Word order: S/B "as the chief counsel for both the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee". |
| Page 205: | "...most of the members were back in their districts. And now each were vulnerable to protesters..." |
| Number error: S/B "each was". |
| Page 250: | "The under-sieged Republican nominee sat at a table with two women on each side of him." |
| Usage: S/B "besieged" or possibly "beleaguered". |
| Page 252: | "Clinton aides, too, had also been satisfied with the outcome of the debate, but less so." |
| Redundant word: S/B "had been". |
| Page 252: | "Whether this was done with the complicity of the Russians was unknown." |
| Verb tense: S/B "is". |
| Page 281: | "He dashed off another report to Simpson—a brief memo that would never be made public." |
| Yet the authors quote from this never-made-public memo. |
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