Former President Bill Clinton sits in the Oval Office. Clinton's memoir,
"My Life," has earned him nearly $30 million.
(Mental Floss) -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's memoir, "A Journey," is sparking all sorts of picketing and protesting around the U.K., so we thought it might be a good time to take a look at a few presidential memoirs from this side of the pond.
Here are a few things you might not have known about former presidents' literary output.
Best choice of (possible) ghostwriter
Ulysses S. Grant should have been on sound financial footing when he finished his second term in 1877. He was arguably the world's most famous war hero, and he had been in the White House for eight years.
In reality, though, his finances were anything but stable. Following a two-year trip around the world and a disastrous investment with a swindling banking partner, Grant found himself on the verge of bankruptcy; he even had to sell his Civil War mementos to pay off debts.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/09/20/mf.history.of.presidential.memoirs/index.html?eref=rss_latest&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29
Here are a few things you might not have known about former presidents' literary output.
Best choice of (possible) ghostwriter
Ulysses S. Grant should have been on sound financial footing when he finished his second term in 1877. He was arguably the world's most famous war hero, and he had been in the White House for eight years.
In reality, though, his finances were anything but stable. Following a two-year trip around the world and a disastrous investment with a swindling banking partner, Grant found himself on the verge of bankruptcy; he even had to sell his Civil War mementos to pay off debts.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/09/20/mf.history.of.presidential.memoirs/index.html?eref=rss_latest&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29