Are politicians so drunk with self-deception that they cannot write insightful books?
Link. Maybe, but there is a more benign explanation. That is: people who are good at what they do are often not good explaining why/how they do what they do. No surprise when you stop to think about it: if they are good at it, they have no need for self-reflection. By corollary, recall that some of the best political/historical writing comes from people who have been kicked out of power, and thus necessarily have the impetus to try to figure out the license number of the truck that just hit them. Think Thucydides, Machiavelli, Trotsky.
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