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To: jalisco555; SeekAndFind; EDINVA
The only halfway-interesting candidate of the bunch. Plus, unlike Hillary, Webb actually wrote all his own books.

I love his 2004 book, Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, which was so good it was promoted by Tom Wolfe. Born Fighting displays his love of history and understanding of the character of the independent, self-reliant earlier Americans. However, I read somewhere that some of his other writing is sexually twisted. With Democrats, that's a résumé enhancer, I'll grant you. But if we have to have another Democrat president, he would be greatly preferable to Hitlery, Biden or Warren.

21 posted on 11/20/2014 8:48:54 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: Albion Wilde

The only book of his I’ve read was Fields of Fire, which was a terrific novel about Vietnam. I don’t recall any sexual content in it but it was very well written. I’m not sure why I never read any of his other books. It would be quite a refreshing change to have, say, a campaign that pitted a writer against a doctor (Paul) rather than the norm of two lawyers.


22 posted on 11/20/2014 9:01:02 AM PST by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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