Anything written by TR can be read with enjoyment. Grant’s Personal Memoir is a masterpiece. I think it fortunate for Grant that the Grim Reaper prevented him from having the dreary duty of relating his life after the Civil War. Ike’s Crusade in Europe isn’t bad, but like Grant he sticks to his war, and it was written prior to his Presidency. Unlike Grant, Ike dictated the book to two authors and one of his aides helped shape the book, so it is hard saying where Ike leaves off and the others begin. Almost all other books written by presidents, with the exception of Hoover, aren’t worth the effort to toss them out.
Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Here’s a thought…
A title for her door stopper.
Mommy Dearest.
How I am killing Michigan softly and propose to spread my love nationally.
Ed Koch’s two memoirs were amusing.
I think you need several measures. One is a federal law which limits inter-state contracts for honoraria to a maximum value which is a function of mean annual personal income per capita in the country at large and the number of people employed by the organization offering the honoraria. Side payments would be debarred, so the honorarium would be expected to cover all of the recipient’s expenses. Another would be state laws which do the same for intra-state agreements and more severe on state colleges and universities. Another would be a federal law which debars inter-state contracts to pay advances and to pay royalties in excess of a stated sectoral norm (which used to be 15% of total sales for hardbacks and 7.5% for paperbacks).
You remember when the Speaker of the House was drummed out of office for a bogus book deal? (55% royalties on a ‘book’ which vended through bulk purchases by people who wanted something from him). That was in 1989. The advent of the Clintons was coincident with a catastrophic fall in standards of propriety.
As someone that lives in the people’s republic of Michigan, I can honestly say the only thing that this would be good for would be starting campfires. Of course, I’m sure she would jail me for starting camp fires. After all, she banned us from going to our cottages..
I still see yard signs that say “my governor is an idiot,” but it doesn’t seem to make any difference. No doubt there will be a bunch of “found ballots” emanating from some place in Detroit again.
Gretchen Whitmer looks possessed. It’s her eyes.