Ron Wyden of Oregon, the second-most senior Democrat in the US Senate, has written a book. Not your average political memoir, it’s called It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change, and it does indeed look like a campaign handbook, a stylized megaphone blaring its title on the cover.
“I’ve read a lot of politicians’ books,” Wyden says. “They’re just deadening because there’s a lot of bragging. You know, ‘I passed this, and I passed that.’ Then there’s a section where they say, ‘I’m being urged by so many people to run for president.’ And then they feign un-interest, and then the third section is, ‘Here’s my presidential exploratory committee.’
