Very much recommend this book to people. Liberal Democracy is the best system we have and being jeopardized by those who take its protection of the individual to the extremes on both the right(neoliberalism, libertarians) and the left(identity politics, ultra-progressivism).
Iām quite a fan. I read his biography last year or so. Less of a fan now. He was a golden child of the literary community. I like his simplicity and minimalism though. His stories are essentially people he knew, from the high peak of writers and their horny wives to the valleys of the riff raff his family belonged to.
All of which made a not-terribly intriguing story similarly difficult to take seriously. No doubt Wado himself gave the surface impression of a compelling character, but much like books, we similarly canāt judge people based on appearances alone. The Last Baronās intrigue begins with its cover, only for it to gradually lose its excitement with each turn of a 303-page book.
A book full of contradictions. He rich but heās poor. Heās a mamas boy and a playboy. Et. Cetera.