"He's luckier than a dog with two dicks"

He who speaks like that, it was Bill Clinton, and that he speaks, it's Barack Obama, in the middle of the presidential campaign which will see the re-enlist Democrat to the White House. Clinton had therefore been right.

"Double Down 'is a book" fly on the wall ", that is to say, a story" as if there was "behind the scenes of the Obama-Romney clash. The narrative is extremely detailed, pleasing to read for those that US policy interests. The authors evoke less personality and ideas of the candidates than their surroundings, the universe in which they operate, strategies and strategies against-with millions of dollars in advertising, suddenly scandals and against-scandals, which also reveal the nodal points, the "divisive topics" (family, gay marriage, abortion ...).

According to the discovery of this universe a mixed impression, if not unpleasant: the level of trade, the relevance of the topics, the media frenzy (including the Internet) about details, this is often absurd and intellectually insignificant. Barack Obama himself, quoted in the book, manifested his disdain for "debates" on American television sauce. But we must go. You have to go, because in his mind, the stakes are high; and, under the foam, there is the background, and the background is the risk he would run the country if the Republicans won.

"Double Down" reads as a long report. The authors assume that the reader already knows a lot about the subject. The player, that is to say, me, certainly knows a little about the subject: but it was not against a little more substance.