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Summary
Bad Education is a collection of Phil Beadle's columns from The Guardian Education section and is a laugh a minute romp through more or less every aspect of British education over the last decade, which makes the occasional, entirely accidental, serious point. Book jacket.
Author Notes
Victor Gold was born in East St. Louis, Illinois on September 25, 1928. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Tulane University. He worked as a reporter for The Birmingham News in Alabama and received a law degree from the University of Alabama. After serving in the Army during the Korean War, he joined a Washington public relations firm in 1958 and worked for several political candidates including Barry Goldwater, Spiro T. Agnew, and George Bush. In 1973, he became a full-time writer for Washingtonian magazine and other publications.
He wrote several books during his lifetime including I Don't Need You When I'm Right: The Confessions of a Washington PR Man, PR as in President, and Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP. He also collaborated Bush on his autobiography Looking Forward and wrote a novel entitled The Body Politic with Lynne V. Cheney. He died from complications of an infection on June 5, 2017 at the age of 88.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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Publisher's Weekly Review
Make no mistake: author Gold, a former speechwriter for George H.W. Bush and aide to Barry Goldwater, is one disgusted Republican. The GOP of the 2006 midterm election, he writes, is "a party of pork-barrel ear-markers like Dennis Hastert, of political hatchet men like Karl Rove, and of Bible-thumping hypocrites like Tom Delay." Gold looks to Goldwater, "a straight-talking, freethinking maverick," as the yardstick by which to measure just how far the party of Lincoln has fallen. He traces the beginning of the end to the 1980 Republican National Convention and the presence of "a militant new element...personified by Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell." The other half of the equation, the neoconservatives, are embodied by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, "two cuts from the same Machiavellian cloth." In efficient prose, Gold scrutinizes a significant swath of recent GOP history, in particular Newt Gingrich's 104th Congress and the Bush II White House, without losing momentum. He also has choice words for "the Coulterization of Republican rhetoric," the revolving door between Capitol Hill and K Street, and "sideshow" legislation like the Flag Protection Amendment. Gold sees a promising future for the Republican Party, but not until they lose some major elections and are able to keep down a slice of humble pie; for those disillusioned with the state of the GOP, this quick, uncompromising polemic provides substantial support, along with a large dose of cold comfort. (Apr.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
Excerpts
Excerpts
Where Do Elephants Go to Die?
"Sometimes party loyalty asks too much."
-John F. Kennedy, on refusing to nominate
a Democrat he disliked to a judgeship (1961)
November 7, 2006 (- 5 minutes to midnight): You know something has gone wrong in your political universe when the party you've worked and voted with for over forty years is getting blown out in a national election and you feel good about it.
Election Night Flashbacks:
November 2, 1994: Twelve years before, I'd been at an election night party at Dick and Lynne Cheney's home in McLean, Virginia, cheering the Republican landslide that swept a corrupt, self-aggrandizing Democratic majority out of power on Capitol Hill. Some called it "the Gingrich revolution," though the new Speaker of the House had nothing to do with a GOP sweep that included George W. Bush's unexpected victory over Ann Richards in Texas and George Pataki's upset win over Mario Cuomo in New York.
November 7, 2000: Six years later, I'd celebrated the news that a cascade of ballots coming out of south Florida had carried the state and the election for the Bush-Cheney ticket. Premature cheering as it developed, but Al Gore's concession speech a month later cleared the way for the first Republican takeover of both the White House and the Congress in nearly half a century.
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