The most obnoxious of all these books, though, have to be the ones where elected officials give you advice about the real world. A perfect example of this is Nancy Pelosi's most recent offering: "Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters." The only thing this book taught me is that men are all-powerful chauvinist pigs who spend their time trying to impede the progress of women — well, except women who are third in line for the presidency, I guess.
Then again, the less consequential your political career, the more books you get to write. Jimmy Carter is the author of dozens of books.
Admittedly, Barack Obama authored one compelling book, "Dreams from my Father," but then followed up with the platitudinous "Audacity of Hope" when he began hoping to be president.
What should be interesting isn't even interesting. How can Bill Clinton write a boring book? I should have to hide his work from my kids. Instead, I got "My Life." Well, I guess we will always have the Starr Report.
However, Ulysses S. Grant
wrote a fascinating memoir. But I think "Audacity of Hope" is overrated. Why couldn't he have "found himself" 100 pages earlier?
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