Elizabeth Brackett is a longtime correspondent for PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and a winner of the Peabody Award for her political coverage. She is news host for WTTW-TV's flagship program Chicago Tonight. A lifetime resident of Chicago, with intimate contacts in city and state politics, she has also won four Emmy Awards.
A surefire political page-turner.
*Publishers Weekly, Starred Review*
A lively account of the tragi-comedy that culminated in the
governor's impeachment.
*Baltimore Sun*
New book offers clues to what makes Blagojevich tick.
*Chicago Sun-Times*
Rod Blagojevich biography serves up meaty morsels.
*Chicago Tribune*
A fascinating read.
*The State Journal-Register, (Springfield, Il)*
What's most fascinating is the discovery that people were weirded
out by him long before he started quoting Tennyson and jogging
around Ravenswood Manor with camera crews in tow. His hair, his
Elvis obsession, his near-bipolar personality... But the former guv
should thank Brackett for sketching such a humane portrait.
*Time Out Chicago*
Rod Blagojevich's feet are about to get held to the fire (again) in
[Pay to Play: How Rod Blagojevich Turned Political Corruption into
a National Sideshow by Elizabeth Brackett] that paints the ousted
Illinois governor as an ego-driven liar who kept his staff in the
dark, cursed the press and was so inconsiderate, he showed up late
to a state funeral.
*New York Post*
Details a strange, dizzy fall.
*Tulsa World*
Pays particular attention to the shocking traditions of corruption
in Illinois politics that served as a model for Blagojevich.
*Sun-Sentinel, (Florida)*
It appears Chicago journalist Elizabeth Brackett is poised to beat
Rod Blagojevich in the race to publish a tell-all account of the
embattled ex-governor's fall from grace.
*The Review of Higher Education*
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