John McCain

Summer is traditionally the season of sequels, as film studios try to wring more money out of a familiar franchise; but the stage is being set for a most unwelcome rerun: another version of the Vietnam War, and like most sequels, this one will feature a different setting – trading the jungles of Southeast Asia for the deserts of Libya.

This week, I continue my review of John Heilemann's and Mark Halperin's book, Game Change, and discuss the book's portrayal of Sarah Palin. 

In politics, as in everyday life, a convergence of circumstances can prove fateful -- gleefully so for the winners, and maddeningly unfair in the view of the defeated. This is one of the many observations one may divine from John Heilemann's and Mark Halperin's newly-released book on the 2008 U.S. presidential race, Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime.