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Article: Shrum and dumber: memoirs of the man who thrice saved us from a Democratic presidency.(Robert Shrum's No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner)(Book review)
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- June 1, 2007
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No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner
by Robert Shrum Simon & Schuster, 544 pp.
Walking around Washington, D.C., telling people you're reading Bob Shrum's forthcoming memoir turns out to be a fantastic small-talk gambit. People are astounded, confused, sympathetic. Someone gave him a book deal? Who would read that? Who would buy it? Good questions, all. But none quite as good as the question of why Shrum wrote the book.
Not, it seems, because he has any particular point to make about campaigns and elections in America, the role of the political consultant in the contemporary Democratic Party, the future of progressive politics, or, ...