

Less successful politician-novelists include Barbara Boxer, Gary Hart, and Steve Israel former Congressman Peter King stands out from the pack because of the “ execrable” Islamophobia infecting his work, while former Senator Jim Webb’s military romances are memorable for their deeply weird eroticism. The first president to publish a novel was Jimmy Carter, whose deeply researched Revolutionary War saga, The Hornet’s Nest, was apparently pretty good. Not to be outdone, Hillary Clinton recently announced her own political thriller, co-authored with the mystery writer Louise Penny, about a secretary of state racing to solve a spate of terrorist attacks. Bill Clinton, collaborating with the novelist James Patterson, released The President Is Missing in 2018 (the plot is self-explanatory) the book received middling reviews but positively flew off shelves (a sequel arrived this month). Bored, famous, and perhaps hoping to distract from the inevitable reassessment of their legacies, a couple of ex-presidents and several legislators have tried their hand at fiction over the years. It’ll wear ’em out.The politician as novelist is certainly nothing new.


You can have that feeling too for the low low price of just $7. As we read it more, we noticed our thighs were also getting harder, much harder.”Īnd he ended the segment by saying, “The book is called Hidden Sins, and frankly, we feel we’ve just sinned in public. It demanded that he slide his arms around her, that he trail his hand along her spine to sink into the silken curls at her nape.”Īfter one of those excerpts, Carlson said, “She tormented his flesh with her palms. Temptation, like a song, clouded his mind. “Heat, like an inferno, blazed in his veins. On Friday, Carlson told viewers they obtained “one of her steamier novels” and that their senior producer “volunteered to perform a dramatic reading of the most titillating moments in Stacey Abrams’ novel.”Īnd that’s exactly what happened, with music playing as excerpts like the following were read on screen: Tucker Carlson did a segment on his show Friday featuring a dramatic reading of a Stacey Abrams romance novel.īefore getting into politics and becoming a national figure, Abrams wrote romance novels, and some of them are being reissued next year.
