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Thirty-Six Days: The Complete Chronicle of the 2000 Presidential Election Crisis

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The book is mainly a paste-up of Times articles published during the election. While this was of course first-class reporting, the book offers very little new analysis or other fresh material. If you read the Times regularly during the election crises, you have already read most of this book; others will be left reading six month-old newspaper articles.

Whether you will enjoy "36 Days" or not depends on

a) Your political affiliation (the book is very pro-Gore).
b) How much you enjoyed following the election controversy at the time (politcal junkies will like the comprehensive NY Times coverage).

Since the New York Times endorsed Gore for president, and most of its staff tilts leftward, the coverage of Bush and his campaign team is fairly negative. Still, I enjoyed the book and would recommend it as one more source for info regarding the historic 2000 election.

Besides, the liberal spin is less annoying because Bush wins in the end.

"The New York Times," one of the best newspapers in the world, has released 36 DAYS, a compilation of their reports and opinion pieces printed during the course of the Election 2000 Aftermath. Be you Democratic, Republican, or an independent, this is news reporting at its finest. Buy it!

A long and dreary collection on NYT 'reportage' and opinion. If you were unfortunate enough to read the 36 days of NYT coverage, you will find nothing new. If you want to laugh at the ... attempt at 'unbiased' reporting, this is a rich vein.
The time is long gone when the Times was anything other than a rag spouting hard-left views.