The Year of Voting Dangerously, Maureen Dowd
The Year of Voting Dangerously, Maureen Dowd
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The Year of Voting Dangerously
The Derangement of American Politics

Author: Maureen Dowd

Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers

Unabridged: 12 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 09/13/2016

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

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.

About Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, known for her sharp and incisive commentary on politics and culture. She is the author of three bestselling books: Bushworld, Are Men Necessary?, and The Year of Voting Dangerously. She lives in Washington, DC.

Reviews

Goodreads review by aistė on September 30, 2016

Extremely repetitive, but I can now see how a US citizen might not want to vote for Hillary even if it means Donald wins. And yes, I am now on first name basis with the presidential candidates, thank you very much.......more

Goodreads review by Scott on May 15, 2017

Maureen Dowd, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times columnist, has been covering the Theater of the Absurd that we call Washington, D.C. for over thirty years. If anyone knows how fucked up our political system is, it’s her. In “The Year of Voting Dangerously”, Dowd compiles some of h......more

Goodreads review by Fred on October 23, 2016

My feeling upon reading this is that it would have made a great book. I'm being sarcastic because it did not feel like a book so much as a collection of 20 years of Dowd's essays with no effort made to edit it into some kind of cohesive whole. Hence, it is very repetitive and often boring (especiall......more

Goodreads review by James on November 14, 2016

The election is over. The winner has been announced. The loser has conceded. And I have just finished "The Year of Voting Dangerously," by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. I started the book on September 26, when Donald J. Trump and Hillary Rodham Clinton were criss-crossing the country pursui......more

Goodreads review by Mary on September 18, 2016

A collection of columns by Maureen Dowd which focus on current politics and offer insights on both Trump and Clinton. I would have liked a deeper view into both personalities.......more

Quotes

"Dowd was born to write about this race. And she dissects its main characters with poison in her pen and poetic punch in her delivery...Dowd surely captures the theater of our politics better than anyone else: The Clintons. The Trumps. The Obamas. The Bushes. She has been in their heads as long as they have been on our minds. She's the establishment's resident shrink."—New York Times Book Review

"Maureen Dowd bakes a cookie with razor blades for the trick-or-treating nominees in The Year of Voting Dangerously."—Sloane Crosley, bestselling author of I Was Told There'd Be Cake

"[The] ultimate political satire, a human comedy of errors full of sound and fury, signifying everything. Dowd, the red-haired siren of snark, has...held her place. Presidents come and go, but journalists tend to stick around. It has to be said: The Dowd abides."—The Washington Post

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