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’Tis the season of the political memoir. Former Joe Biden officials—and a current Biden spouse—are writing books that discuss their time in the White House. Ambitious Democrats who want to run for president are publishing doorstoppers about their all-American childhoods and hard-earned lessons in leadership. And Republicans hoping to inherit the mantle of Trumpism once the current administration ends are embossing their names on titles that seem calculated to trigger liberals.
Politicians’ memoirs are often pablum. Other times, they can stir controversy and, on rare occasions, even jump-start careers. Still, like any genre, political books have their tropes. One of them is a title so generic, so blandly inoffensive yet simultaneously indicative of hope, resolve, or insider knowledge as to be, ultimately, unmemorable.
