[SamAdams76]

You keep coming up with great books! I wish more Freepers would get involved with this reading list. In a way, Willie Stark reminds me of "Slick Willie" Clinton. Willie Stark believed that everybody had a "secret", a weakness, and if that weakness could be identified, then Willie could control and exploit that person. Sounds like the Clinton m.o. to me.

[dix]

When I first caught Bubba’s act in ’92 I thought of Willie Stark. I really believe Clinton studied him. Clinton knew the Rats would do anything to be in power, and when he got his butt in a crack anything to stay in power. That was their big weakness. He exploited it many times.

He also honed his skills on the ignorant underclass aka the common man. Just like Stark/Long. I don’t mean that to be a slam at Arkansas, every state has them.

Huey Long was a serious threat to become president for a while. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that’s what made FDR introduce social security.

Long screwed one too many people, and Dr. Weiss did him in. Clinton was lucky one of the libs he threw overboard didn’t do something drastic.

[PJ-Comix]

You keep coming up with great books! I wish more Freepers would get involved with this reading list.

The problem is that most folks developed an antipathy to literature back in high school. This innoculated them from realizing the great books out there. I've actually learned quite a bit of history from literature. Often such books spur my curiousity about events and I then read history books about them. But the initial curiousity is set off by the novels.