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These stories are more than ten years old, but in Lukas' hands they still have the power to move. No reader, no matter what his political or social views, can fail to be affected by the Irish Catholic family, declining into an acrimony that leaves all of its members diminished; by the black family, breaking up in despair; or by the white liberals, who in the end give up on the South End, retreating to a Victorian house in the suburbs...
...through her windows night after night, the story is larger than three families, and larger than Boston. As a narrative of people's repeated losses of faith, above all the faith that they can shape and control their lives, Common Ground explains what once seemed incomprehensible, and persuades the reader that to understand is indeed to forgive...
...notion that "insiderism" can expose the true campaign is peddled in two books by two quintessentially Washington institutions: Newsweek, and the columnists Jack Germond and Jules Witcover (Germond qualifies solo). Newseek commited at least seven top-flight reporters to the gargantuan task of placing you, the reader, in the hip pocket of the candidates and their aides. Germond and Witcover, who can't help but write from the perspective of politicians' hip pockets, exhaustively chronicle the motivations and actions of all the Democratic pretenders and give a detailed account of the President's reelection effort...
...reached the point where only in the case of an accident--a plane crash, a bridge collapse or something equally unexpected--can a reader be reasonably sure that the facts haven't been bent or tampered with in advance...
...more forthcoming in private interviews when guaranteed anonymity. The awkwardness of this arrangement is that the press can only hint that its information comes from the horse's mouth and that this particular horse is not just any old dray horse. Such anonymous sourcing is irritating to the reader, and a burden on the press's credibility, but remains a useful device to convey what really seems to be afoot...