From The Washington Post

From The Washington Post’s Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by David Greenberg Political consultants — the handlers, hucksters, hacks, flacks, ghosts and other assorted spinmeisters who form the modern campaign’s supporting cast — bring forth our conflicted feelings about politics. Half the time we deride them as oleaginous sharpies who deal in half-truths and double talk. The rest of the time we revere them for their shamanistic wisdom and award them platforms from which to dispense it: lucrative newspaper columns, prominent talk-show gigs, cushy chairs at Harvard and the Council on Foreign Relations. And when they write memoirs, we know to expect shameless spin — yet despite oursel (more…)