Got home yesterday to find a nice big parcel containing two volumes of U.S. Presidential Candidates and the Elections: A Biographical and Historical Guide by James T. Havel. Wow. That was me gone for the evening. I never knew that:
- Samuel Clemens (better known as Mark Twain) stood as an Anti-Doughnut candidate in 1880
- Lyndon B Johnson got an honorary degree at the age of 35 from Southwestern University (I would be very easily bribed with a similar offer).
OK not everyone’s cup of tea but it will give me a number of happy evenings between now and November.
Incidentally I note that Clinton won only one of the first six primaries in 1992 so that may be good news for Edwards or Clark. Of course Clinton then lost only two of the remaining primaries, so I suspect that Kerry has a pretty good chance. Also it’s notable that if the party as a whole makes its mind up fast then there is a much better chance of winning.
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Robert Holdstock: Mythago Wood 22
Maureen F. McHugh: China Mountain Zhang 21
Tim Powers: Last Call 19
Lois Mcmaster Bujold: The Sharing Knife: Passage 18
Terry Pratchett: I Shall Wear Midnight 17
Jo Walton: Ha’penny 15
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Michelle Magorian: Goodnight Mister Tom 17
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Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain 16
Charles Lamb: Tales of Shakespeare 15
Thomas Mann: Death in Venice 15
Dorothy Dunnett: Niccolo Rising 13Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables 13
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Dorothy Dunnett: The Spring of the Ram 11
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Frederick Douglass: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 11
Mary Wollstonecraft: The Rights of Woman – and – On The Subjection of Women 9
Stephen Jay Gould: Questioning the Millennium. 8
Lynne M. Thomas: Chicks Dig Time Lords 5
Stephen Jay Gould: Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin 5
Paul Kincaid: British Science Fiction & Fantasy: Twenty Years, Two Surveys
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Karen Armstrong: The Bible: The Biography 3
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