Paranoid Nation, by Matt Towery

"Paranoid Nation" by Matt Lowery is a very interesting book although there were no great revelations, no deep dark secrets, no scandals. it seems to be a fair account of what lead to the final results of the elections of 2008, no apparent bias one way or another, no vitriol, but no platitudes either.

It is not a real page turner either, but a solid middle of the road expose on the workings of American Presidential Elections on both sides of the fence with uphill historical fact checking going back to the historical root causes, leading to some of the events we witnessed during and after the 2008 US Presidential election.

A necessary read as a preparation work for the current 2012 Presidential elections. There is a strange recurrent theme in these elections going back to Jimmy Carter and even Nixon.