Presidents don't write anymore, and this is a problem. We need to bring back the decent writers like how the early presidents were, e.g. Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton. The early presidents writing could be considered among the Greats; the same could be said of other countries presidents and prime ministers. There appears to be a correlation with good writers and good leaders.
>The Federalist Papers
>The Second World War
What are some other examples?
US Presidential Writing
Zachary Lewis
Liam Price
President Donald J. Trump.
Brandon Stewart
If there's a correlation between good writers and good leaders, why are U.S. Grant's memoirs so much better than his presidency?
Chase Williams
>Presidents don't write anymore
>The art of the deal
We couldn't expect the black one to write a book, c'mon.
Isaiah Long
Outlier
Brandon Diaz
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Ryan Kelly
Hamilton was never president.
He was a good war leader, peacetime not so much. Although with current revisionism he is being rehabilitated. Like most topics, our knowledge soon becomes obsolete with scholarship.
Aaron Lopez
I meant to say James Madison.
Jace Morris
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Kevin Barnes
>en.wikipedia.org
The last seven presidents (Trump included) are published authors.
Nicholas Ortiz
If you've never read Dreams of my Father, do. Really, really good. I was surprise of its literary merits.
Grayson Parker
>Black leftist
>Literary merit
Pick one.
Angel Thomas
They didn't write shit.
Cameron Rodriguez
Neither did Lincoln or any other president. Ghost writers are nothing new.
Cooper Brown
what does lit think of Reagan's challenger speech
gives me a tear desu
youtube.com
Landon Lewis
>obama
>leftist
thx user i needed a good laugh
Liam Barnes
The Adams-Jefferson letters should be in curricula.
Benjamin Diaz
John Adams has thousands of extant letters.
Carson Hernandez
we're talking about presidents who wrote user, this is just a performance of a speech written by peggy noonan. reagan did not contribute to the writing of the speech and reportedly didn't even like it.
Chase Reyes
you upset me :(
Blake Edwards
>implying Obama isn't patrish
I haven’t read “The Waste Land” for a year, and I never did bother to check all the footnotes. But I will hazard these statements—Eliot contains the same ecstatic vision which runs from Münzer to Yeats. However, he retains a grounding in the social reality/order of his time.
Facing what he perceives as a choice between ecstatic chaos and lifeless mechanistic order, he accedes to maintaining a separation of asexual purity and brutal sexual reality. And he wears a stoical face before this. Read his essay on Tradition and the Individual Talent, as well as Four Quartets, when he’s less concerned with depicting moribund Europe, to catch a sense of what I speak.
Remember how I said there’s a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism—Eliot is of this type. Of course, the dichotomy he maintains is reactionary, but it’s due to a deep fatalism, not ignorance. (Counter him with Yeats or Pound, who, arising from the same milieu, opted to support Hitler and Mussolini.)
And this fatalism is born out of the relation between fertility and death, which I touched on in my last letter—life feeds on itself. A fatalism I share with the western tradition at times. You seem surprised at Eliot’s irreconcilable ambivalence; don’t you share this ambivalence yourself, Alex?