I am someone who has a few books under my built and I can tell you that their writing is an excruciating experience. It has taken me years to be able to write consistently coherent sentences, hundreds of thousands of words under my belt. For a man who was but a short time before a dope smoking drunken teen to suddenly write the all American memoir strains credulity.
The following thread is about a book written in 1938 talking about the New Deal as Revolution. A very important and foretelling read for 2008.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts
Here’s an excerpt - I added a couple of names to bring it up 70 years:
“There was a prodigious literature of revolutionary thought concealed only by the respectability of its dress.”.....
“To the revolutionary this same dreary stuff was the most exciting reading in the world. It was knowledge that gave him a sense of power. One who mastered the subject to the point of excellence could be fairly sure of a livelihood by teaching and writing [AYERS], that is, by imparting it to others, and meanwhile dream of passing at a single leap from this mean obscurity to the prestige of one who assists in the manipulation of great happenings; while one who mastered it to the point of genius [OBAMA] that one might dream of becoming himself the next Lenin.”
For a writer, your grammar is atrocious. I, for one, would NEVER try to read one of your books. I mean, seriously, proofread before you post. Ugh, that was painful. I wish I could correct your post with a red pen. Sorry to sound harsh, but I hate it when people brag about their skill in something, then turn around and immediately prove their total lack of said skill...
That being said, I agree completely!
LOL. Hitting the juice tonight? Or cat on the keyboard?
I'm certainly not an Obama fan, but I tend to disagree with you on that. The intervening years of Ivy League undergrad and law school education undoubtedly could have improved his writing skills considerably..