First Review Of Frank Rich's New Book: A "Savaging Sermon" On The "White House's Greatest Hits"...

Eat The Press Rachel Sklar July 12, 2006 at 09:36 PM
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he Kirkus review for NYT columnist Frank Rich's "The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina" was released this afternoon, praising Rich for his "savaging sermon" on the "White House's greatest hits, from the 2001 defense of gas-guzzling as essential to the American way of life to "Heckuva job, Brownie" to the ongoing morass of Iraq." The Kirkus reviewer seems to be in agreement with Rich on the spinning of it's own administration's missteps: "In an effort to disguise that track record, the Republicans have exercised single-minded control of the grand narrative of the last five years, at least in part because they have exercised quasi-totalitarian control over the news media."

There aren't many adjectives applied to Rich here - Kirkus says he looks "closely and critically" at the White House but it focuses on content rather than how the book is written, how it feels, what feeling it leaves you with etc. (one can assume indignation; if Rich is the preacher of this particular sermon, Kirkus is definitely the converted).

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