- Paperback: 364 pages
- Publisher: Harper Perennial; New Upd edition (Feb 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0061139629
- ISBN-13: 978-0061139628
- Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 13.6 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,603,361 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Scorpion Tongues is a terrific book.
Author Gail Collins brings history alive with her wonderful stories about the U.S. presidents. If you think today's assault on President Clinton is bad, you should read Scorpion Tongues! .
A must read!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Gail Collins' book on political gossip reads so easily that if my busy life had a concept like "reading a book in one sitting", I would have read it in one sitting. As it was, it took snatches of time over the course of three days, but the book never lost my attention for a minute. The book covers scandals and gossip associated with American politicians since George Washington's time, running all the way up to President Clinton's womanizing problems. Collins does not dwell on any particular story too long (and in some cases is so brief that I wanted to know more), and for a scan of the subject, this book could hardly be bettered. The "9" instead of the "10" is because Collins did not choose to footnote, grouping references instead in a longish by-chapter bibliography at the end of the book. This is inconvenient, because specific quotes and allegations (such as the one that in one instance the crowd was so excited that several women fell into the band pit) would be interesting to trace immediately, at least to their source. But that is a minor distraction, and I can only say again that the book is a delight.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Scorpion Tongues is one of the rare books that simultaneously entertain, inform, teach and provoke lots of thought.
On one level it is a history of American gossip. On another level it is a history of American politics. On a third level it playfully teaches the reader that what may appear as gossip is really a statement about the concerns and values of a given era. And...this gossip can have and has had a powerful impact on the future.
Ms. Collins is also an artist. Under the reader's eyes she transforms the stuffy old generation of the past into colorful, living, breathing people.
Be prepared to learn and laugh a lot...and to have more than enough anecdotes to win a "Great Conversationalist Award."
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