Howard Fineman’s “Thirteen American Arguments”: A Key Briefing on the Core Political Clashes That Matter Now, and Historically Have Mattered, to Americans

Howard Fineman’s “Thirteen American Arguments”: A Key Briefing on the Core Political Clashes That Matter Now, and Historically Have Mattered, to Americans

By JOHN W. DEAN

Howard Fineman, Newsweek’s senior Washington Correspondent and an NBC news analyst, understands the ways of the nation’s capital and its politics. His new book, The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Inspire and Define Our Country, has been on my reading list for months, so it struck me as a good potential read to give my new Kindle (the Kindle 2) a first test. In light of my overloaded book shelves, not to mention an expensive book-reading addiction, the idea of building an electronic library has long appealed to me. However, the inability to highlight passages, search that library easily, and cut and paste from the books made the early electronic readers hardly worth the savings in cost and shelf space, notwithstanding my equal interest in saving trees. In sharp contrast, the Kindle 2 reading experience was superb overall, with the notetaking and highlighting functions solid and satisfactory, though they could also be improved upon.

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