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Oh, Waiter! One Order of Crow!: Inside the Strangest Presidential Election Finish in American History
Oh, Waiter! One Order of Crow!: Inside the Strangest Presidential Election Finish in American History
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The one account you won't want to miss. From the bestselling author and television commentator comes a brilliant, hilarious, incisive look at just what happened on Election Night, and after.
"Circumstances have changed dramatically since I first called you."
- Al Gore to George W. Bush, November 8, 2000
Few people know the absurdities of American politics better than Jeff Greenfield, CNN's award-winning political and media analyst. Now for all those millions of Americans who are still trying to figure out how we ended up with America's closest, craziest election, Greenfield takes us behind the scenes to explore Election Night 2000 and its tumultuous aftermath in all their surreal glory. From November 7th itself and its famous media flipflops ("Oh, waiter!" Greenfield proclaimed aloud, "One order of crow!") to its hard-fought finale, he leads us through and Alice-in-Wonderland world of butterfly ballots and pregnant chads, shifting deadlines and Doomsday Scenarios, lawyers, recounts, spin doctors, demonstrations, felons and faithless electors. It is an exceptional work of commentary and living history, destined to be a political classic.
"Circumstances have changed dramatically since I first called you."
- Al Gore to George W. Bush, November 8, 2000
Few people know the absurdities of American politics better than Jeff Greenfield, CNN's award-winning political and media analyst. Now for all those millions of Americans who are still trying to figure out how we ended up with America's closest, craziest election, Greenfield takes us behind the scenes to explore Election Night 2000 and its tumultuous aftermath in all their surreal glory. From November 7th itself and its famous media flipflops ("Oh, waiter!" Greenfield proclaimed aloud, "One order of crow!") to its hard-fought finale, he leads us through and Alice-in-Wonderland world of butterfly ballots and pregnant chads, shifting deadlines and Doomsday Scenarios, lawyers, recounts, spin doctors, demonstrations, felons and faithless electors. It is an exceptional work of commentary and living history, destined to be a political classic.
Author Biography: Jeff Greenfield is a senior analyst and anchor for CNN, and before that served as ABC News' political and media analyst for fourteen years, where he was a regular on Nightline and World News Tonight. He is also the author of nine nonfiction books on politics and the media, and the prophetic bestselling novel about the electoral college, The People's Choice. Of that novel, NBC's Tim Russert said, "My God, this could really happen!" and a certain Connecticut Senator named Joe Lieberman declared, "Hilarious and very real. I kept reading it with fascination, right up to the very end."
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