Author | Dick Stoken |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Published | 2004 ( Macmillan Publishers) |
ISBN | 9780765307323 |
The Great Game of Politics: Why We Elect, Whom We Elect is a 2004 political science book by Dick Stoken that discusses the history and details of the Presidency of the United States from George Washington to George W. Bush. [1]
Reception of The Great Game of Politics was generally critical. [2] [3]
Kirkus Reviews stated that The Great Game of Politics was an "Amateurish exercise in political history, turning on half-correct assumptions and half-formed arguments." [2]
Publishers Weekly states "Serious students of the American presidency will find Stoken's thinking a bit simplistic as well as present-minded. And Stoken, an investor who has written several investment books . . . , writes more like a motivational speaker — he's prone to exclamation points — than a historian. But less-schooled readers may find some help in thinking about the approaching 2004 election." [3]