Best American Political Writing 2007 Book

Acknowledgments     xi
Preface   Royce Flippin     xiii
Politics in the Bush Era-Legacies and Lame Ducks
Untruth and Consequences     3
from the Atlantic Monthly
A Unified Theory of Scandal: The Real Roots of the U.S. Attorney Firings     22
from the New Republic
Not Compassionate, Not Conservative     29
from the American Scholar
The Washington Back Channel     38
from the New York Times Magazine
Republicans vs. Democrats-The 2006 Midterm Elections
Karl Rove's Split Personality     61
from Vanity Fair
Southern Discomfort: The Strangest Senate Race of the Year     81
from the New Yorker
The Worst Congress Ever     96
from Rolling Stone
Democrats: The Big Surprise     116
from the New York Review of Books
The Iraq War
This is Baghdad. What could be worse?     131
from the Washington Post
Survivor: The White House Edition     137
from Vanity Fair
The Surge     146
from the New York Review of Books
Neo Culpa     155
from Vanity Fair
America in an Uncertain World
The State of the World     175
from Esquire
The Redirection     193
from the New Yorker
Declaring Victory     214
from the Atlantic Monthly
The Power of Green     237
from the New York Times Magazine
Why Hawks Win     258
from Foreign Policy
The 2008 Presidential Race
One of Us     267
from Esquire
Rudy Tuesday     287
from New York magazine
The Lessons of the Father     303
from the Boston Globe Magazine
The Starting Gate     313
from the New Yorker
The Woman in the Bubble     325
from New York magazine
The Accidental Populist     339
from the New Republic
The Conciliator     352
from the New Yorker
Money Chooses Sides     375
from New York magazine
Contributors     391
Permissions     395