One we get to mid fall and the days shorten considerably…I try and read a book a week until say February 25th or whenever spring begins to awaken again in Oklahoma.
By that time… between my business and March Madness my leisure reading slackens to almost nil other than just the sports and front page story type of stuff.
I finished the Kirk Herbstreit biography written by Woj. If you’re a college football fan of any serious degree… I would highly suggest the book not just for the football, but for the human journey of Kirk’s life in which he was very candid about in sharing with his readers. I’d give the book four out of five stars on my review. It would be a great X-mas gift for a football fanatic.
The book I’m reading now is by two time Pulitizer winner Bob Woodward and Bob Costa from Washington Week in Review which airs on PBS.
This is a great five star book which is Pulitizer worthy and if you’re open minded and not living your life on either the far right or far left lanes of extremism you’ll consider this a must read for every American who thinks democracy is kind of a neat thing.
If you’re the type who comes home every night and sits in front of Tucker Carlson with your Sean Hannity sippy cup…. you won’t make it thru ten pages of this book. You just won’t…I’m sorry to write.
If you’re a far left type who thinks AOC rocks and everything she says is the Sermon on the Mount you’ll maybe make it to page seventy-five or so when you read what Nancy Pelosi and even to some degree Bernie Sanders thinks about the new radical left in Congress.
They pretty much think what Joe Manchin thinks….they just don’t put it out in public as much.
The book is a duel biography of Donald Trump and Joe Biden from the Election of 2016 to the January 6th insurrection of our national capitol.
As with all Bob Woodward books this book is written in a riveting narrative and was researched with great diligence which included two-hundred hours of interviews with people who were part of the story with the exception of two people… Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
If you’re in one of those two lanes…I don’t think you’ll enjoy the book.
If you’re a moderate or an independent like me..I think you’ll love the book.
But now I need to get back to finishing what could be Bob Woodward’s third Pulitzer Prize award winning book.
My advice to you within the GOP which allowed Donald Trump to be your party’s nominee a second time in 2020 would simply be this coming from a former moderate Republican who left the party in 2000…maybe in 2024 you could bring yourself to nominate a candidate of which Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bush 41 could actually stomach enough to in theory vote for that person.
I didn’t include Bush 43 on that list because I’m closing with Bush 43. I was highly critical of Bush 43 during his presidency, but in historical retrospect I would at this point after witnessing the four years of Donald Trump have to admit Bush 43 and Dick Cheney compared to Donald Trump come out looking like FDR in the year 2021.
I may not agree with 43 and Liz Cheney on some things, but at the end of the day I at least feel as if we’re all three Americans who value the fragile concept of democracy.
Please read the book… if you’re one of those 75 million who voted for Donald Trump a second time in 2020.