Book review: How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time
How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter At a Time by Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark. St. Martin's Press, New York, 2026. This is a brand new publication. I ordered it back in April or May and it arrived, from Barnes and Noble, on Sept. 8, 2026. I finished reading it earlier this morning and have been thinking about it the rest of the day. I wasn't sure that I would feel qualified to write this review. I feel confident writing reviews of other books on this blog, often simply because I loved the book and enjoy the challenge and the process of writing. It is, primarily, why I keep this blog. How to Eat an Elephant is about politics. This puts it in a different category for me. I don't read books about politics. I read newspaper and magazine articles, I listen to podcasts, but I never read books about politics. Until now. Well, I did read Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson and liked it, but I...