Review of
Instaread Summary of Armageddon How Trump Can Beat Hillary by Dick Morris and Eileen
McGann
Four out of five stars
It is clear
from the opening paragraphs that the book being summarized is an extremely
partisan and factually flawed argument in support of the candidacy of Donald
Trump. The first paragraph sets the fundamentals of the summary and the book.
“’Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary’ by Dick
Morris and Eileen McGann is an attack on 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary
Clinton and an enthusiastic endorsement of Republican nominee Donald Trump. The
book argues that Clinton is corrupt and will destroy the country if elected. By
contrast, Trump is a strong, brave, noble politician.”
Most of the
summary follows along this path, all of the key takeaways can be summarized in
the simplistic phrase “Hillary bad, Trump good.” It is not until the “Author’s
style” section before the author of the summary injects some reality into the
analysis. The following are the first three lines of the first three paragraphs
of this section.
“The title of ‘Armageddon’ is melodramatic and
hyperbolic.”
“Whipping up emotions does not require a great deal of
care and rigor; ‘Armageddon’ is sloppy and repetitive.”
“’Armageddon’ also often includes misrepresentations
and, in some cases, flat-out falsehoods.”
These are the harshest criticisms that I have ever
read in an Instaread summary.
The author of
the summary takes what is the best possible potshot in debunking this book when
they point out how Morris has been such a colossal failure in predicting the
outcomes of elections. The following appears in the “Author’s perspective”
section.
“Morris’s partisanship, however, is often hard to
separate from his advice and predictions. He frequently predicts sweeping
Republican successes. In 2012, Morris famously predicted that Romney would win
the election against Obama in a landslide taking Florida, Ohio, Colorado,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and New Hampshire— all states Obama ended
up carrying in his victorious re-election campaign. Morris also predicted that
Republicans would win the Senate in 2012, when, in fact, they lost seats.”
By pointing out
Morris’s record of failure in political predicting, the author of the summary
renders his book into a pointless read by all but the most partisan of readers.
This book was made available for free for review
purposes.
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