Posted on 12/28/2009 3:11:33 PM PST by Maelstorm
Memphis Daily News...Fred Thompson, the former Tennessee senator and 2008 Republican presidential candidate, has penned his memoir and given it a title that reflects his early days in small-town Tennessee. The 67-year-old former politician, actor and avuncular radio host who graduated from the University of Memphis titled his book “Notes from a Country Lawyer.” It’s scheduled for release in May. Amazon.com already is selling pre-orders of the book, the cover of which shows a smiling Thompson wearing a suit and seated on a brick front porch. The title is a label no doubt intended to hearken back to the days long before Thompson dabbled in presidential politics, eventually throwing his support last year behind longtime friend and Arizona Sen. John McCain. The “country lawyer” label also predates one of his better-known acting roles as New York Dist. Atty. Arthur Branch, which Thompson played on the long-running NBC drama “Law & Order.”
‘Steady Eddie’ Raised in Lawrenceburg, Tenn. – also the hometown of current Shelby County Commissioner Mike Carpenter – Thompson prosecuted bank robbers and moonshiners as an assistant U.S. attorney in the late 1960s and early ’70s. Stumping before a crowd of several hundred people in Lawrenceburg’s town square in late 2007, Thompson evoked flashes of the country lawyer he used to be. He strolled here and there, gesturing to landmarks that reminded him of his early days and places long gone. The gathering was in support of Thompson’s presidential bid. He pointed to where a courthouse once stood, where he tried his first lawsuit while dodging buckets set out to catch rainwater as he paced in front of the jury. Jerry Hughes, the proprietor of a gift shop on the town square called Thompson Station, told The Daily NewsLawrenceburg still appreciates the former senator’s style. “He’s laid back. It’s just his nature,” Hughes said. “He’s a steady Eddie.”
Exit, stage right Meanwhile, Thompson isn’t the only politician with a Memphis connection who has a memoir coming out in 2010. Harold Ford Jr., the former U.S. representative for the 9th Congressional District that generally encompasses Memphis, is coming out in September with “More Davids Than Goliaths: A Political Education.” Ford’s 320-page book will reflect on what he’s learned on the campaign trail, as well as from his place in one of the city’s most prominent political families. Ford, the 9th District congressman from 1997 to 2007, won the seat after it had been held by his father, Harold Ford Sr., for 22 years. The younger Ford came within 50,000 votes and 3 percentage points of winning in 2006 the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Bill Frist. Former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker won that race in a hard-fought campaign that proved to be Ford’s second act on the national political stage.
First thing I thought of ;-)
I’m still pissed at the $500 I sent to Hillary C. just before she dropped out...and had the nerve to go work for (front for) Obama.
I hope the book has more energy than his presidential campaign.
Fred the guy from Tiger High!
Harold Ford Jr. the only Ford from Memphis that hasn’t been under indictment.
That fan dance of his last year cost us a conservative nominee, per plan IMHO.
Yeah that sucked. We were really behind him here. I wish that he had stayed in.
Yeah that sucked. We were really behind him here. I wish that he had stayed in.
Yeah that sucked. We were really behind him here. I wish that he had stayed in.
Evangelicals didn’t like the fact that Fred Thompson was not a frequent church goer and remarried a much younger woman. As a result, they backed the “morally pure” Huckabee.
You talking about the Huckabee who helped let out violent offenders before their time? I think that is what offended me the most aside from the lies coming out of the Romney campaign about Fred dropping out. There was a coordinated effort to cast Fred as something he wasn’t. They had no shame, they called him lazy when he was doing campaign stops back to back. I wish he hadn’t waited so long to enter the race but we can’t look back we can only look forward. Right now I’m 100% in Sarah Palin’s camp if she runs. I’ll never ever be in a Romney or Huckabee camp. They represent exactly the kind of politics that has led to the ascendancy of Obama. We need individuals that truly understand the idea of the sovereign citizen, the ideas of liberty, and understand that government is not a replacement for individual responsibility.
Will get it here!
I would rather have Jeri and/or Fred in charge than any Democrat.
I’ll be getting the FRed book!!
The "morally pure" candidate who backed the kinds of nanny state "health" laws that even the Obamacare believers know they need to sneak up on. Whenever the evangelicals forget that they can't have the kind of President who will actively push their agenda, they back candidates who could never win a general election, to the detriment of the kind of candidates who would protect their right to live as they choose, while not actively imposing it on others.
Fortunately, a bad Presidency can cause them to wise up and support the latter, which is how we got Ronald Reagan.
-Eric
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