Has anyone here read the Amie Parnes book about the Biden campaign yet? I'm trying to decide whether to order it from Amazon or to wait until it appears in one of the Free Library boxes around my town.
I didn't read it but I searched through it to find answers to some specific questions that involved key, pivotal events in the campaign (such as: why did Biden pick Harris?). Didn't find any answers. For such a long book, they have a remarkable ability to write anecdote after anecdote that seems juicy without actually saying anything. Just repeating conventional wisdom. It seems as if a committee of all the insiders and players in the campaign came together and approved the most sterile narrative possible, leaking out just enough detail to make you feel like you're in on the secret, as long as those details are relatively minor and insignificant. Which, given that the authors need to maintain access to their subjects, is not that surprising.
