Books on Politics

There are a huge amount of books that have been published, both by commentators, and by politicians themselves.  This disclosure may completely discredit me with the cognoscenti, but I haven't read any of them, except Andy Borowitz's 'Profiles in Ignorance.'

I might have remarked about that one soon after I read it.  It was tough to read, but I learned a great deal from it, basically how widespread conservative ignorance was.  Well, it's probably a matter of choice; conservatives just don't want to know data that they consider irrelevant.  Like Sherlock Holmes's fictitious brain, they must consider that their own brains have finite memory capacity, and unlike frantic liberals, they're not going to go out and get a larger memory, just so that 'socialists' can persuade them to their cause.  'Profiles' was a groan a minute, but it was fascinating to look back on Reagan, in particular, and see how he ran away with US—and World—politics. 

There are non-books, like 'The Art of The Deal', and real books, like 'Profiles in Courage', and Hitler's 'Mein Kampf', and similar books.  The closest thing to a book like that in my library is 'Life, The Universe and Everything', by Douglas Adams, but then he went and killed himself (I think), which gave the book the flavor of a long suicide note!  (No, it isn't; I should strike that out, and perhaps I will, someday.)

Joe Biden is a man from Pennsylvania.  We Pennsylvanians are cursed with being surrounded by New Yorkers, and New Jerseyites, and (now even) Ohians, writing books, and making noise with their elegies, and it drives our native sons to settle elsewhere, and yearn to leave a legacy.  Throughout his long political life, Biden has been driven by the desire to get something done for his home state of Delaware, and for the country at large, and to be remembered for his achievements.  He did lead us out of the Covid pandemic, with the help of Anthony Fauci, but there is so much misinformation flying around, and so much disinformation being desperately passed around MAGA circles, that it would be hard for someone with the unique character of Biden to see himself as a hero, worthy of writing a book.  The laughable, but menacing character of Trump hangs over him, like a toupée, ruining everything.  But Biden will be remembered, mostly, for being the one who firmly put a stop to runaway Trumpism, though it was a laborious process that still hasn't ended. 

I feel bad at throwing shade at 'The Art of the Deal' without having read it.  But in my defence, there are numerous, more highly respected books, that I also have not read. 

Archimedes