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At the very least, I am politically engaged.
The family says that at the age of 2, in 1972, while we were landing in Washington, South Carolina, on a family trip, I asked for Flight attendant where we would see "the Watergate".
At the age of 10, in 1980, I was campaign manager for John Anderson, a presidential candidate, during the Greenbriar School election campaign in Northbrook. One of our village board members, who was there to talk to us about voting and civic responsibility, was a convention delegate for GOP candidate Ronald Reagan. Anderson won the fictional election and the village council member became completely white.
My first book, co-written with Kevin Guilfoile, was titled "My First President: A George W. Bush Album". I let you guess the subject and the feeling.
I look at "Morning Joe", although I find it almost unbearable. I consult the Talking Points Memo website a dozen times a day to celebrate the existence of the DVR so that on Sunday morning I do not have to choose between "Meet the Press" and "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos.
And yet, I do not read and read the three best-selling political books of the year, "Superior Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership" by James Comey, "Fire and Fury: Inside the White House Trump By Michael Wolff and Bob Woodward's "Fear: Trump in the White House".
The reason? Due to the saturation of the media surrounding all these books, a week after their release, I had the feeling to have already read them.
Not to read "Fear" is particularly strange, since I am almost complete with regard to Woodward's books. Although it looks like the Rolling Stones for me – the first things are the best – for a long time, I read it no matter the subject. I have read "All Men of the President" on several occasions and I consider his book on the Supreme Court, "The Brethren", co-authored with Scott Armstrong, as one of the most fascinating and insightful on the internal functioning of the government. I have already read.
But even before the release of "Fear", I felt overwhelmed with pieces of the book, including in The Wood Post's The Wood Post, which printed some of the juiciest pieces before the book was publicly available.
(Such a mystery as to how they could have obtained a first copy.)
Woodward is then interviewed in every newspaper, every television show, and every podcast. Websites like Slate and Vox run to extract the main points to remember and present them in a convenient list.
Business Insider has published "All the Revelations that have gone so far from the explosive book on Bob Woodward's trump".
Well, if that's all, why read the book? Everyone is fighting to offer their own version of CliffsNotes, in the service of eye design.
It works – at least on me. I click, I read, I digest, and with each story or appearance of Woodward, I do not feel more, but less obliged to check the book for myself. It's not just a problem to be destabilized by the hype, but to feel as if everything I could meet had been pre-chewed, digested for me.
In a sense, it's great service, a real time saver, and I guess if I wanted to read the book so much, I could try an embargo on the news, but what a hassle.
Let me suggest a different strategy for a future author of a detective book: Do your interviews, but whenever someone asks a question, the answer is, "You will have to read the book" .
John Warner is the author of "Tough Day for the Army".
Biblioracle Book Recommendations
John Warner tells you what to read based on the last five books you have read.
1. "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides
2. "The Virgin Suicides" by Jeffrey Eugenides
3. "Friendship" by Emily Gould
4. "The conspiracy of marriage" by Jeffrey Eugenides
5. "Just Kids" by Patti Smith
– Isabella A., Hinsdale
What do you recommend to a reader who has just devoured almost all the works of Jeffrey Eugenides? Do you lean in this vein or do you change things? You are trying to divide the difference with a domestic drama featuring a hint of dark comedy: "The country of stable habits" by Ted Thompson.
1. "I know why caged birds sing" by Maya Angelou
2. "Lincoln in the Bardo" By George Saunders
3. "Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus" by Mary Shelley
4. "Their eyes were watched God" by Zora Neale Hurston
5. "We ate wonderful bread" by Nicole Hollander
– Donna F., Wilmette
Aimee Bender "The particular sadness of the lemon cake" Donna seems to want to get an emotional kick.
1. "Brothers brothers" by Patrick deWitt
2. "The name of the wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
3. "A man called Ove" by Fredrik Backman
4. "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline
5. "Hillbilly Elegy" by J.D. Vance
– Jim H., Chicago
Today we know Paul Feig as a successful director of films such as "Bridesmaid", "Spy" and the remake "Ghostbusters" but between "Freaks and Geeks" and today. Now, he has published some books of memorable essays. For Jim, I recommend the first one: "Kick Me: Adventures in adolescence."
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