How the West was won
Sunday, November 9th, 2008Here’s your reading for the next seven days, folks.
Newsweek magazine had reporters inside the Obama and McCain camps for a year in the run-up to the election – but they were only allowed to be there on condition that their stories would be published after the election was over.
So now you can read these behind-the-scenes reports – and boy, are they fascinating. No, really. From tantrums to tactics, they’re an amazing insight into what the candidates (and those around them) are really like, and what really happened on the campaign trails. And I’ve only read the first three chapters…
Ch. 1: Barack Obama: How He Did It
Ch. 2: John McCain: Back From the Dead?
Ch. 3: The Long Clinton-Obama Siege
Ch. 4: McCain Camp Retools, Targets Obama
Ch. 5: Obama Sweats the Clintons, McCain Gambles on Palin
Ch. 6: Battling it Out in the Great Debates
Enjoy. It’s like The West Wing - only real.
