{"id":2000,"date":"2014-07-05T16:17:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T16:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2014-07-05T16:17:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T16:17:54","slug":"the-state-of-the-unions-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/the-state-of-the-unions-books","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Union\u2019s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

By JOHN WILLIAMS JULY 3, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n

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Credit Joon Mo Kang<\/p>\n

With patriotism and fireworks in the air this weekend, the Book Review turns its attention to American life and thought, looking at new books by or about Hillary Clinton, Franklin Delano Roose\u00advelt and the Supreme Court, among other subjects.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re part of a long tradition: On Dec. 2, 1885, The Times\u2019s notice of the publication of Ulys\u00adses S. Grant\u2019s \u201cPersonal Memoirs\u201d was mostly a guided tour of excerpts, after establishing some basic facts: \u201cIt is a well-made and handsome book of 584 pages.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than a century later, when Paul Watkins reviewed Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cDreams From My Father,\u201d the future president was still a law professor. Watkins wrote that Obama had \u201cbravely tackled the complexities of his remarkable upbringing,\u201d but knocked the story of his time as a community organizer in Chicago, saying it \u201cbogs down in discussions of racial exploitation without really shedding any new light on the subject.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prominent political figures have also assumed the critic\u2019s role for us, as when Henry Kissinger assessed Robert L. Beisner\u2019s biography of Dean Acheson in 2006 and Bill Clinton wrote about the fourth installment of Robert Caro\u2019s Lyndon Johnson opus in 2012. Clinton used the opportunity to expound on his own theories about political power, writing that Johnson \u201cknew what the presidency was for: to get to people \u2014 to members of Congress, often with tricks up his sleeve; to the American people, by wearing his heart on his sleeve.\u201d<\/p>\n

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