Political books
It is remarkable how many books in the “Current Events” section of a bookstore strike me as dead-weight. I am slightly offended by about half the books’ existence. I cannot quite quantify it, and the exceptions are sometimes not entirely apart from the type of book that I’m attacking here — meaning at some point I’m a hypocrite (albeit I’d argure only slightly so).
It is seeing Ann Coulter’s Godless next to the response of Susan Estrich’s Soulless and Joe Maguire’s Brainless. None of these books should exist. The first book gives us nothing and the other two books are diversions away from any real issue — the proper response to Ann Coulter is “Why should anybody give a rip?”
From there, the books fall into an even lower depth of meaninglessness.
In other political book news: I saw a used biography on Estes Kefauver. It was just under 200 pages. Which seems appropriate for the subject.