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Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics
Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics | Maureen Dowd
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Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history.Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking campaign season, The New York Times columnist traces the psychologies and pathologies in one of the nastiest and most significant battles of the sexes ever. Dowd has covered Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton since the '90s. She was with the real estate mogul when he shyly approached his first Presidential rope line in 1999, and she won a Pulitzer prize that same year for her penetrating columns on the Clinton impeachment follies. Like her bestsellers, Bushworld and Are Men Necessary?, THE YEAR OF VOTING DANGEROUSLY will feature Dowd's trademark cocktail of wry humor and acerbic analysis in dispatches from the political madhouse. If America is on the escalator to hell, then THE YEAR OF VOTING DANGEROUSLY is the perfect guide for this surreal, insane ride.
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BookishMarginalia
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I was planning on reading this as a prelude to the election, but... halfway through the introduction I started hyperventilating. Perhaps it's time to put this aside and focus on something less anxiety-producing 😳😬

Crinoline_Laphroaig Myself I can't take anymore. I know who I'm voting for. But until then I'm just going to read and ignore the craziness. 8y
Gayan I had a full blown panic attack today and I blame it mostly on this election. 😱 8y
BooksPieAndCoffee Yup, so over it! Election 2016 has caused me to literally break out in hives. I'm staying in my reading fort until this mess is over. #SickOfHearingAboutTheDamnEmails 8y
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Lreads Definitely read something less stressful! I can't handle anymore stomach aches brought on by this election! I'm keeping my nose in my book until it's over. 8y
Theresa @BooksPieAndCoffee Love that hashtag!! 8y
Laura317 I saw Funko Pops of both Clinton and Trump. I about died. #noescape 8y
Kathrin Yep. 8y
Bookish.Heart I almost bought this book. But I have to wait until after this circus is over. Until then, I have my stash of happy pills and my pile of fantasy novels! 8y
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Melissamara
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Pickpick

This book is excellent.It is very timely .The year of things that are like snl skit

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Kathrin
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This book covered the primaries, but also topics back to the Bush 41 presidency. I often wondered how this fit into the theme of this year's election and the declared theme of the book.
If you read an article by Maureen Dowd once a week in the New York Times over several years you won't notice this, but when a bunch of articles on similar topics are put together in a book, things get repetitive at times.

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Kathrin
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Thank goodness the weather is beautiful and I had a nice walk with the pooches, since this book does nothing to soothe my mind....

BarbaraTheBibliophage I love Maureen Dowd! Must look for this one. 8y
Kathrin @BarbaraTheBibliophage I usually love her too, but this doesn't really work for me... unfortunately. 8y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Hmmm. Sorry to hear. 😂 8y
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Kathrin
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Greetings from my day 4 of staycation walk. This time accompanied by Maureen Dowd... quite sobering especially compared to my audio book from yesterday.

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RoxyWilde
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When there's a thunderstorm outside...

MrBook 😻 8y
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RoxyWilde
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YUGE!