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Straight, however, is an uncannily precise word for the way this novel is not told. It jumps back and forth in time. It tries on different narrative methods; in some chapters dialogue is without quotation marks, while in others they appear. The novel's central event--the reason the narrator chose to tell this story in the first place--could be fairly well conveyed on a postcard. It is, in fact, foreshadowed on page 12. The Last Thing He Wanted is as much concerned with its own telling as it is with the story it tells...
...seemed impossible for him to climb out of his hole. And in both cases Morris' confidence jump-started the candidate--and began a "permanent campaign" in which Clinton defined himself partly through polling. In Arkansas, as the two men dueled over strategy, they would throw poll numbers back and forth from memory--10 different surveys, each one yielding different slices of voter sentiment. Still, the notion that Morris dictates policy to Clinton, says former chief of staff Betsey Wright, fundamentally misreads their relationship. Clinton controls the dynamic; Morris reads his grunts and silences and knows when they mean...
...Call me William Jefferson. I originated in a place called Hope, but which might as well have been called Lust or All-Consuming Ambition, and I came roaring forth filled with a soaring zest to converse, to consume, to bunk down with my fellow countrymen and especially countrywomen on the warm, level mattress of Democracy. But somewhere along the way, I discerned a cold, repellent glint in America's eye. Maybe it was my stepfather's rages, or the way my wife's face hardened when the subject turned to cattle futures or real estate or banking. So I learned...
...tell one another each campaign season, like elders sitting around the cold embers of a dead fire recalling the glories of hunts past. Every four years, we walk onto the convention floor with an irrational sense of excitement, looking at the state standards that delegates once waved back and forth to demand recognition from the chair, looking at the shiny microphones that delegates once used to raise crucial points of order...
...fact, the only group that has not poured forth its support for the plan is the DOD. Gallop says MIT officials gave the government a copy of the revised proposal late this spring, but said the DOD has not responded...