Playbook 2012: The Right Fights Back (Politico Inside Election 2012) (Kindle Single) [Kindle Edition]

Mike Allen (Author), Evan Thomas (Author), Politico (Author)

Book Description

Two of America’s most perceptive political reporters join forces for an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the race for the White House in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012, a series of four instant digital books on the 2012 presidential election. The first edition, The Right Fights Back, follows the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
 
The battle for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination promises to be one of the most hotly contested and closely fought in recent memory, as establishment Republicans, Tea Party favorites, and dark horse insurgents vie to take on President Obama in the November election. In The Right Fights Back, Mike Allen, chief White House correspondent for POLITICO, and Evan Thomas, the award-winning journalist and author of Robert F. Kennedy and The War Lovers, chronicle the dramatic events of this historic campaign as it unfolds.
 
With exclusive real-time reporting from the campaign trail, The Right Fights Back provides detail, color, and in-depth analysis that take readers beyond the hourly headlines and commentary. From the role of Super PACS and conservative interest groups to the clashes of personality and policy that will define the race to capture the GOP nomination, this is a history-as-it-happens account of the resurgent American right at the crossroads.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

As journalism continues to look for new ways to remain both profitable and relevant in the digital age, long-form investigative work has taken enthusiastically to the ebook. Perhaps ironically, this gusto for new forms has inspired a nascent return to the depth and breadth of bygone days. Such is the case with The Right Fights Back, an extended look at the 2012 Presidential campaign's early stages, with particular focus on the GOP. Politico's Mike Allen and Evan Thomas pull together sources ranging from candidates' family and campaign employees (current and former) to would-be and had-been candidates themselves. Regardless of your political bent, it's hard not to be underwhelmed by this campaign's Republican contenders, and as a blow-by-blow account of the scandal, inexperience, and public theater that has characterized the early campaigning, The Right Fights Back offers a timely and insightful primer. --Jason Kirk

Product Details

• File Size: 1779 KB
• Print Length: 80 pages
• Publisher: Random House (November 30, 2011)
• Sold by: Random House Digital, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005S6VN70
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Not Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #124,221 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #34 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Elections & Political Process > Elections
  • #42 in Kindle Store > Kindle Singles > Reporting
  • #50 in Kindle Store > Kindle Singles > Essays & Ideas

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 24 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth the money December 2, 2011

By V. Patterson

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For the money that is being asked for this mini-book, I felt it was worth it. I enjoyed the behind the scenes gossip (which is what a lot of it is) and some of it was enlightening - particularly the bits about Rick Perry. This is more than you'd get in a magazine and certainly more than what would be posted online. One thing I did object to is that the size is inflated because 20% of the pages are taken up by a reproduction of Rick Perry's shedule for the three months after he entered the race. What was the value of that? It just made the thing seem longer than it was.
I will be buying the next one, but I don't see this as a replacement for the campaign book. More a supliment and it's nice to have some of this gossip in a timely manner.I would have given it 5 stars, but I took one off for the pointless inclusion of the Perry Shedule.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing December 9, 2011

By Alex Patton

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This is more a collection of items that did not make it into the paper.

It is the B-roll of politico. snippets of disjointed writing.

I held out a lot of hope for this, but in the end, I was disappointed.

I hope the next installment, if there is one, is a little better.

15 of 20 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly shallow poliical analysis December 9, 2011

By William J. Fickling VINE™ VOICE

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You might find this e-book informative if you never read newspapers or news magazines and never watch political commentary on television. But if you are already reasonably well-informed, you will find little here that is new or news. What little that is new is more in the realm of gossip than news. For example, we learn that Haley Barbour decided not to run when, after he used his own team to vet himself, he found out that there is a lot of negative information on him that would be readily available to his opponents. (If you don't know who Haley Barbour is, then this might be the right book for you.) We learn that Newt Gingrich's wife Callista ran interference for him, micro-managed his campaign and helped derail it in its early stages (it has since revived and surged). We are presented with Rick Perry's complete daily schedule, if anyone is interested. But I think the late Theodore H. White would turn over in his grave at what passes today as serious political analysis. The is supposed to be the first in a series of four e-books on the 2012 campaign. I won't be holding my breath waiting for the next three.