Chairman of NEA: 'Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar'

The Woodward Report ^ | October 28, 2009

[Tublecane]

“Landesman seems ignorant of even the existence of The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant...among the genuine masterpieces of American literature.”

Yes, I can almost excuse him for ignoring Wilson and Hoover, since nobody much reads them anymore, for undervaluing TR, who is better known as a man of action than a man of letters, and for skipping over more recent presidents like Eisenhower, Nixon, and Reagan, since it’s common to assume everyone employs ghostwriters nowadays.

But to pass by Grant? That’s plain inexusable. Unless he is aware of the Mark Twain controversy, which I doubt.

[cubreporter]

tee hee