PositiveThe New York Review of BooksAllan J. Lichtman discusses VIVA [the Voter Information and Verification Act] at length in a chapter late in The Embattled Vote in America, while his earlier chapters provide a rich historical background to the law ... The great value of Lichtman’s book is the way it puts today’s right-wing voter suppression efforts in their historical setting. He identifies the current push as the third crackdown on African-American voting rights in our history.
David Frum
RaveThe New York Review of BooksHis is a far more polemical book than Wolff’s, and Frum is a skilled polemicist, capable of producing lines that carry rhetorical precision and force but stop short of screaming for attention.
Michael Wolff
PositiveThe New York Review of BooksSome critics have tried to accuse Wolff of not playing by the standard rules of journalism, by which they mean to insinuate that he’s taken off-the-record material and put it on the record ... Wolff doesn’t do 'fairness.' He comes to his conclusions, and he lets you know them. He doesn’t tell the other side. No New York Times or Washington Post reporter could have written this book. They follow rules that demand more 'balance,' rules under which they might have been more likely to get all the small things absolutely right but would have diluted the larger truth.
