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The First Dissident
With the end of the election process still fresh, the poet Job story give you a viewpoint to continue watching our political system at work. William Safire, wordsmith, has fine tuned our thoughts and perspective as we watch our democratic government accept its responsibility. God, Job, and friends take their lumps as we the governed will with our recent...
Published on November 22, 2008 by Deane R. Paulson
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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not completely useless
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...
Published on July 27, 2003 by Michael Lewyn
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The First Dissident: The Book of Job in Today's Politics (Hardcover)
With the end of the election process still fresh, the poet Job story give you a viewpoint to continue watching our political system at work.
William Safire, wordsmith, has fine tuned our thoughts and perspective as we watch our democratic government accept its responsibility. God, Job, and friends take their lumps as we the governed will with our recent choices.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
not completely useless,
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This review is from: The First Dissident: The Book of Job in Today's Politics (Hardcover)
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.
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The First Dissident: The Book of Job in Today's Politics by William Safire (Paperback - September 28, 1993)
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