Posted by Dinah on November 9, 2006, at 9:47:03
In reply to Has anyone read (please don't move to Books), posted by ClearSkies on November 9, 2006, at 8:50:29
I can't say that I've ever read a book on politics of my own volition. Except "Bad Bet on the Bayou", and I had to quit reading partway through because I felt too sick to continue.
I like to read historical books with historical politics, but not contemporary ones.
However, I think I'd be even more wary of books than I would of newspaper articles and magazines. Because in some ways they're more like the op/ed page than the news. It's hard to see how anyone, no matter how hard they try, can be completely objective and leave their own beliefs out of a book and how can that not skew the results?
I did read "A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal", because information from the inside of Iraq from the everyday people seemed hard to come by.
I guess I need to exempt local politics from that general rule. I generally get my local news from a few sources I trust. But I haven't got the information to know who to trust on the national level, so I just try to get a broad sampling.
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