Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think
by Chris Matthews
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Chris Matthews has been playing "Hardball" since the day he was born. As host of Hardball and the best-selling author of such classics as Hardball and Kennedy & Nixon, Matthews is a political cop who insists on the truth and nothing but. In Now Let Me Tell You What I Really Think, Chris Matthews is at his brilliant, blunt, bulldogged best. From the Cold War to the Clinton on Years, Matthews the straight-up account of what it means to be an American. Matthews tells us about his "God and show more Country" Catholic school education in Philadelphia complete with cold war air-raid drills and his arly enthusiasm for politics. He also shares with us his various adventures: ears in Africa with the Peace Corps, the challenge of running for congress at a mere 28 years old, and lastly his three decades deep in the "belly of the beast" of American politics. Matthews has made his name as a razor-sharp journalist determined to expose the politicians who abuse their power. With Now, Let Me Tell You What I Think, Matthews rallies those who "work hard and play by the rules" and why he still heralds the wisdom he learned from a capitol policeman over twenty years ago, "The little man loves his country, because it's all he's got." A hard-to-categorize maverick with an uncool love for his country, Matthews gives irreverent look at where we are, and how we got here. show lessTags
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This book is not so much a book as a screed. Written just after 9/11, it is patriotism as we were all feeling it at the time -- at a pitch. But his slavering admiration for W, and his arrogant dismissal of Clintons and Gore because of their "arrogance," and his ethnocentric class consciousness that scorns everyone else's ethnocentricity and/or class consciousness was just too much. I couldn't make it past the second disc. I would like to hear how much he has revised his opinions in the dreadful seven years since.
Interested by the way Matthews tells this story and his opinion about the subjects contained in this book. It is refreshing to see that someone will tell you his opinion.
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