El BJ

My determination to do anything but check the Books Update posted early each Friday afternoon by the NYTBR lasted all of about one blog post:

On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review


'The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson'

By ROBERT A. CARO
Reviewed by BILL CLINTON
The fourth volume of Robert Caro's series on Lyndon Johnson starts shortly before the 1960 presidential election and ends a few months after John F. Kennedy's assassination.
But as long as I actually don't read the review by one colossal !@#$%^& prick awash in blood about another, I should emerge from this post with what little is left of my honor intact.

All right, time for the books editors at the Sunday Times of London to commission Tony Blair for the next Harold Wilson biography, Baroness Thatcher and John Major double-teamed over the next doorstoppers on Churchill/Eden/Macmillan (flip a pound coin for who gets whom, ministers), then it's back to Tanenhaus & Co. at the NYTBR in time to line up Jimmy Carter on the uncannily Trumanesque parallels between haberdashery and peanut farming (and how the Pendergast machine prefigured the Plains Mafia), and Poppy H.W. Bush I on why he liked Ike (Allen Dulles at Langley, for one:
  
Only our pipes lean left ... Quite.

Company men were Company Men in those days.
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