So I have read a good handful of books in the last few months. So I'll be doing a good number of book reviews and Drift by Rachel Maddow is the first! I have to say I was very excited to read a book by her because she is one of my favorite political commentators. She is brilliant and so well spoken and my favorite, is that she tells it like it is.
Her book is supposed to be a look at the military and how we as a country have become comfortable with the idea of war. She makes an excellent argument for it too, looking back at how when the President took us to war in the early century, it meant taking the entire country to war. The feeling of that action was reverberated through every American living in the country.
As time goes on though, Presidents felt that they were being stripped of vital rights as the commander in chief to go to war if they felt necessary because it had to go through Congress. It is extremely interesting to take a look at how some Presidents felt entitled to taking the country to war and how the alarm of the people seemed to be not as intense as years went by.
Here's the problem; I hated the book. I had such high hopes for this book and it didn't meet up. She ends up going on tangents and more personal stories of the politicians and they just don't make sense. It is as if she lost her way and maybe started coming up with stuff to fill the pages. It was honestly so bad I didn't finish the last 20 pages. Which is unheard of for me, I always have to finish a book.
If she writes another book, I will totally give it a read, but I hope it is better than this.
Out of five stars, I'd have to give it maybe two and a half.
Have you read Drift? What did you think?
Next up will be my review on Inferno by Dan Brown!
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