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...free world. Instead, he'll become a guy who might be the most powerful person in the wealthy Dallas enclave his family is moving to after Washington. Might be. So what's a former president to do? Bush has said he's going to work on his library, write a memoir, and earn some bank on that mythical "speaking circuit" that has proved so remunerative for Presidents past. His immediate predecessors include two astoundingly productive ex-presidents (Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton), some lackadaisical ones (Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush), a disgraced lion in winter (Richard Nixon...
...instantly forgettable Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion, a partial attempt to shift blame for the causes of the Civil War away from his administration. Later the 18th president, penniless and deathly ill in his final years, negotiated a deal with publisher Mark Twain to write the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, a two-volume set that is still considered one of the best presidential memoirs ever penned. In 1913, Theodore Roosevelt wrote another well-regarded tome (predictably, and straightforwardly, titled Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography). Harry Truman wrote his memoirs because he was broke, Herbert...
...quarters at the Naval Observatory in Washington, he isn't going very far away: Cheney will move to a house in McLean, Va., that he and his wife have just finished building (by design, it is within a few miles of both sets of grandchildren). He is expected to write a book that draws on what one adviser described as "his 40 years of experience" in Washington; it will almost certainly, the source said, be an extended reflection on the appropriate exercise of power in times of peace...
...fair, it's hard to write music about the economy. No one has ever come out with a great "Invisible Hand" anthem or a theme song about price elasticity and wage rates. But that doesn't stop Young from trying; parts of his 2008 world-tour concerts were peppered with angry rants about the financial collapse. In November he even released his own plan for saving the U.S. auto industry. Young aimed to tackle "the issue of global warming from our automobiles while enhancing our national security and keeping Detroit working." Wow, did the Woodstock generation get boring, or what...
...long way from Washington's isolationist farewell to Bush's ideal of universal liberty ushered in by American leadership and intervention. Someone could write a rich history of the world with those two brief speeches as bookends. On a personal level, it's a long way from the chesty, swaggering George W. Bush of bygone years to the resigned and pensive man in the East Room, who repeatedly acknowledged the large number of people who disagree with his views. "You may not agree with some tough decisions I have made," he said. "But I hope you can agree that...