Nicholas Goldberg: What history says about writers — like Nicholas Kristof — running for office (via latimesopinion)
Both are first-time candidates. Both have a dollop of celebrity. Both are getting lots of ink.
He had published nine novels and almost as many books of nonfiction before he was elected to the House of Commons in 1837. He continued churning them out as he “climbed the greasy pole” of politics, as he put it.Column: Can humanity rise to the challenge in Glasgow and take some meaningful steps on climate change?
in 1934. “You have written enough,” he remembered saying to himself. “What the world needs is a deed.” Then there was novelist Norman Mailer, who ran for mayor of New York on a ticket with newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin, who was running for City Council president.proposed making the city the 51st state, banning cars from the streets and building a monorail that would encircle Manhattan. They wanted free bikes in city parks and cops who lived in the neighborhoods they patrolled.
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