I'm in the final, tough moments of finishing a "tremendo" book. Final, 'cause I'm almost done. Tough, because, the completion of every good book mandates a "good-bye" to that dust-jacketed friend of many hours/days/weeks.
My soon-to-be good-bye is to David Pietrusza's 2007 amazing book entitled "1920 The Year of the Six Presidents". Spent the weekend with my family up in the mountains of Idaho - snow shoeing, snow-mobiling and reading Mr. Pietrusza's book about the convergence of political lives and fortunes (in the Presidential year of 1920) for Warren Harding, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Just published by Carroll & Graf of New York, the book outlines the chain of events that brought together 6 men who either were the US President in the past, the present or the future. 6 Men who moved with all due energy to be nominated by the two parties in 1920.
TR in 1920? Yep, even The Rough Rider had designs to return to the GOP's nominating convention to claim what was to be his sure nomination...until death took him in 1919.
Next issue: FDR in 1920? Yep, actually, he settled for the Dem Veep Nomination under James Cox, that year's standard bearer. The taste left in his mouth for national politicking apparently fed the thirst for his actions over the ensuing 12 years, until he won the top post.
For anyone seriously interested in seeing today's Iowa Caucuses/ New Hamp. Primaries/Super Tuesdays, they MUST, as a student of yesterday's political intrigue, read "1920". With what happened that year, in our terms of today, to "delete" driven men (or maybe even better yet - to put them on "pause")...
... the case remains that "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K" (Bill S. Preston, Esquire to Theodore "Ted" Logan). I still see Al Gore surfacing.....
~ Dennis
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