The Appeal | John Grisham | Politics in all it's glory

The Appeal | John Grisham | Got Tort? Got Stereotypes? Got Best Seller

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The Appeal

	The Appeal John Grisham Doubleday, 2008 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 515 reviews view larger image
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Politics in all it's glory

"The Appeal" is John Grisham's handy primer on a timely subject: how to rig an election. Blow by blow, this not-very-fictitious-sounding novel depicts the tactics by which political candidates either can be propelled or ambushed and their campaigns can be subverted. Since so much of what happens here involves legal maneuvering in Mississippi, as have many of his other books, Mr. Grisham knows just how these games are played. He has sadly little trouble making such dirty tricks sound real.

With the recent election in the media spotlight, it's a great read.

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Got Tort? Got Stereotypes? Got Best Seller

John Grisham's novel is about an evil chemical company that causes great suffering in its grab for profits and then hires slick, immoral, lawyers and assorted operatives to cover up the stinking mess. The man pulling the strings is somehow laughable in his villainy.

The book is also about judicial elections that seem to invite corrupt practices. Grisham devotes many pages to the theme of spending money to manipulate the media and purchase office.

Liberals are good; conservatives are bad in Grisham's work. Christian fundamentalists are intolerant and hopelessly reactionary. The good "folks" in this book are very goooood and everybody else seems to have a cash box for a heart.

If you can stomach these stereotypes, the book flows well. It's an easy read. The ending, however, spins off of an amazingly convenient accident.

Grisham writes what the people want. His books sell. Perhaps it's his air of clinical detachment that has such a great appeal.

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