The Way to Win

Numa altura em que os principais candidatos às primárias norte-americanas já estão no terreno, sugiro a leitura de “The Way to Win”, publicado por Mark Halperin (director de Política da ABC News) e John F. Harris (editor de Política Nacional do The Washington Post).

Esta obra é um verdadeiro “manual” das “regras secretas” que conduzem à vitória nas eleições presidenciais.

“This book begins in the rain -- a cold, pelting, dismal rain that at times fell so hard it nearly obscured a remarkable moment in American politics. Up on the stage, huddled beneath umbrellas, were a father and son, the forty-first and the forty-third presidents of the United States. Joining them was the woman some believe is destined to become the forty-fourth president. All three of them -- George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Hillary Rodham Clinton -- had gathered in Little Rock, Arkansas, to pay tribute to the nation's forty-second president and dedicate the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum. Rarely have the past, present, and potential future of American politics been on such vivid display. It was an arresting tableau, one that naturally evoked questions about the art of politics: what it takes to win the presidency, what it takes to survive in that office, and what has created a strange, generation-long cycle of Bushes and Clintons alternating as the preeminent figures in American life.”