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| IT WAS ALL A LIE How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump Stuart Stevens New York: Alfred A. Knopf, August 2020 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-525-65845-0 | ||||
| ISBN 0-525-65845-9 | 237pp. | HC | $26.95 | |
| Page 18: | "In the glow of nostalgia around a smiling Reagan faded into the California sunset..." |
| Word choice: S/B "As". |
| Page 23: | "For a political party that espouses to admire business so much and wants to run government like a business, ignoring those who are selling like crazy in the toughest markets is self-defeating but very telling." |
| Vocabulary: S/B "espouses" or "claims to admire". |
| Page 42: | "The family values that the Republican Party not only embraced as a personal ethos but wielded as a club against political opponents was built on the fantasy that sex did not exist." |
| Number error: S/B "were". |
| Page 81: | "In reality, the Republican Party isn't serious about deficit reduction, because politicians know their voters don't feel affected by the mind-boggling numbers and subsequently don't really care." |
| Word choice: S/B "consequently". |
| Page 86: | "It was an extraordinary exchange and one of the few moments when Buckley faced an opponent more eloquent in word and elegant and appearance." |
| Word choice: S/B "elegant in appearance". |
| Page 119: | "That it was demonstrably a lie backed by hospital records was quickly brushed aside in pursuit of the 'larger' truth that Barack Obama wasn't 'really' an American because an America that could elect a man with the middle name Hussein is not really America." |
| Word choice: S/B "debunked" or "disproved". |
| Page 159: | "The voice in 'The Flight 93 Election' echoes less a heroic Roman consul of 350 B.C. and more an 1861 secessionist in Mississippi who justified his actions in documents like 'A Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union'..." |
| Continuity: on page 158 the date is given as "340 B.C.". |
| Page 175: | "But that's a world that doesn't exist, and any chance for transformation of the Republican Party into the big tent it then espoused to be has been lost." |
| Vocabulary: S/B "purported to be" or similar. |
| Pages 182-3: | "Illegal voting has long been a felony, and the idea that of all the felonies possible to commit, someone would risk the consequences of a felony conviction to vote is one of the more almost-charming absurdities imaginable. Our problem in America is getting people to vote, not stopping illegals." |
| Incomplete and ambiguous phrase: S/B "not stopping illegals from voting". |
| Page 189: | "With the exception of the 1964 Goldwater landslide, Republicans carried California in every post-World War II presidential election until 1988." |
| Misleading: 1964 was a landslide for Lyndon Johnson. Goldwater carried only Arizona, his home state, and five states of the deep south. |
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