W will be paid $7 million for a book on his presidency and he wants to break from the convention of ex-presidents writing autobiographies (as if he could write one if his life depended on it) and instead concentrate on Decision Points--the working title--in his life. The L.A. Times says there are twelve of these and that he has already written 30,000 words about them. (Don't bother with the math of words-to-problem, there's no way of knowing how deeply into the dozen he may be by now.) All I can say about this is that I watched Will Farrell's You're Welcome, America the other night and if W gets anywhere near the truth of that, his book may be worth a read.
Nixon wrote his Six Crises the year after he lost to JFK and it was widely regarded as being little more than Tricky's self-centered view of his difficult life. And truth was the last thing on his mind--maybe Frank Langella in Nixon/Frost or Anthony Hopkins in Nixon are the better guides here.
Let's look up at our big tote board, shall we?: 2 presidents, 13 years in office, 18 reasons they each should have stayed home. Final score: Republican hacks 18, American people 0.
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