Joel B. Pollak
Autore di How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution
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Pollak Joel B was born in Johannesburg, grew up in the United States, and graduated with honours from Harvard College in 1999. He returned to South Africa as a Rotary scholar in 2000 and worked as a freelance journalist before serving as speechwriter for Tony Leon, Leader of the Opposition in the mostra altro Parliament of South Africa. During the Kasrils affair, he helped draft changes to the Kasrils declaration but later opposed Kasrils's campaign against Israel. He currently studies at Harvard Law School and is an award-winning teaching fellow at Harvard College. mostra meno
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- Data di nascita
- 1977-04-25
- Nazionalità
- USA, South Africa
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Luogo di residenza
- Cape Town, South Africa
Skokie, Illinois, USA
Santa Monica, California, USA - Istruzione
- University of Cape Town
Harvard College
Harvard Law School
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- 8
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- 1
- Utenti
- 45
- Popolarità
- #340,917
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 17
- Lingue
- 1
Review of the self-published Amazon Kindle eBook (December, 2020)
I read Neither Free nor Fair as part of my ongoing reading survey of various books in relation to the 2020 American Election. As a Canadian, I’ve generally ignored American politics and elections in past years, but the drama of the situation in 2020 has heightened my interest.
Joel Pollak wrote this book in the space of 2 weeks, following the November 3, 2020 American Election and was able to get it released via Amazon Kindle only a few weeks later, on December 8, 2020. It is thus the first book to be released following Joe Biden’s victory over incumbent President Donald Trump. Since that result there has been a considerable amount of publicity with Trump disputing the voting methods and counting processes. Pollak’s thesis is not about the actual voting though, but is instead about all of the other circumstances leading up to it, which he lays out in his introductory summary:
Pollak is admittedly biased. He is a senior editor-at-large at the conservative media outlet Breitbart News. He does make valid points though about the bias of media in general (mainstream & social), big tech (google, facebook, twitter, etc.), the manipulation of events by opposition parties and political & social activists, to steer public discourse against the incumbent President. Trump of course was his own worst enemy in this regard and did not do himself any favours with his narcissism and arrogance.
The main issue that struck me was the lessons learned by the media from ex-FBI Director James Comey’s mixed messages about Hillary Clinton in the lead-up to the 2016 election. It did seem like there was a concerted effort in 2020 to block all hints of scandal about Joe Biden and his family’s possible selling of political influence in the past, so that there would be nothing to taint him as there had been Clinton in 2016. Managing to keep the Hunter Biden lap-top story away from major media outlets by blocking or disabling social media accounts including that by Twitter of the New York Post was the most shocking thing to me as a Canadian observer.
There will obviously be many more journalist books written about the 2020 Election. Pollak has made an excellent summary here of the issues that those accounts should discuss in the future.… (altro)