You say read it - I'll read it!
What's wrong with "polemic?"
Wasn't Peggy Noonan's little book on hillary a polemic?
And since when must a book be a magnum opus--or even well written--to contribute to the political discourse?
Noonan's reasoning is circular. She criticizes Klein for inoculating the clintons against 'legitimate' criticism by describing their outrageous and abnormal acts even as she concedes that the clintons have a natural immunity to exposure because they (and their acts) are inherently outrageous and abnormal.
Noonan's criticisms and criteria--many valid under ordinary circumstances--are rendered moot by the book's famously rabid, vengeful subject. For example, seeking sources who are willing to go on the record about missus clinton is an exercise in futility....