Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell is the host of The Last Word on MSNBC and was a writer on The West Wing (a great show) among other accomplishments.

He clearly has a love of the written word, politics, and history.
But don't let that fool you or make you stay away from this book. It is so well written, not at all a dry political history book. It is approachable and reads more like a political mystery than a history book but it is full of interesting facts and history that needs to be preserved, to be remembered, to be passed on to the current and to future generations.

There have been many comparisons to Trump and/or his campaign's possible collusion with Russia in meddling with the 2016 election and Nixon's Watergate scandal/crime. But there are so many more similarities between the current political climate and the 1968 election. Even some of the players are the same. It is crazy and eerie. And makes for a read more entertaining than expected, well not by me but I am sure by some. I fully expected to be entertained while I learned, and I wasn't let down at all. Though I was deeply disturbed, rightly, with the lengths that were gone to in the name of election and legacy making.....


(Finished February 13, 2018)