presidential literature

Really interesting blog post on bookblog the Millions - genre review of Nixon literature, others on presidential fiction. Postulates that this current administration will offer no literary possibilities -- they have to know in some small corner that what they are doing is wrong. And they don't seem to.
Closes with a great observation is that this administration has been most effective and most dangerous because they have been able to destroy sources of resistance to its desires. More than any specific goal, what they have done is permanently, or at least significantly, weaken social sources of power that can be used to check any executive. Can see this institutionally within the government, media, scientific community, etc.

As the Millions put it better:

A mark of the current administration's moral failure, and perhaps of its artistic triumph, is that it has sterilized many of the avenues for protest against itself.