{"id":520,"date":"2008-01-29T12:34:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T17:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/29\/book-on-strom-a-must-read\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T17:37:44","slug":"book-on-strom-a-must-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/29\/book-on-strom-a-must-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Book on Strom a must-read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/images.jpeg' title='images.jpeg'><img src='http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/images.jpeg' alt='images.jpeg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just finished reading the only honest book ever written about South Carolina politics. I had avoided it like the plague because I had mistakenly thought since 1998 that the authors were paying homage to an aging Strom Thurmond. Boy was I wrong! <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51NKN51HYWL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg&#038;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ol-Strom-Unauthorized-Biography-Thurmond\/dp\/1570035148&#038;h=240&#038;w=240&#038;sz=15&#038;hl=en&#038;start=1&#038;sig2=RuHv8jo_jFl1rDQ6jBQdtg&#038;tbnid=S8_2zu_a8UyilM:&#038;tbnh=110&#038;tbnw=110&#038;ei=y2OfR66uBoz8igGLnLXbBw&#038;prev=\/images%3Fq%3D%2522ol%2Bstrom%2522%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DGv\">Ol&#8217; Strom<\/a> by Jack Bass and Marilyn Thompson is an unvarnished expose of every politician of any importance in SC since 1876&#8230;in a single context\u2026as they related to the life of Strom Thurmond. It is at once shocking, fascinating, embarrassing and laugh-out-loud funny as Bass and Thompson connect all the political dots of South Carolina&#8217;s last century.<\/p>\n<p>I actually felt personally cleansed after reading the second half of the book\u2026mostly because at 10:15 PM I realized that I had been sitting in the Jacuzzi for six hours riveted to this book! I highly recommend it to anyone with even a passing interest in South Carolina history or politics. It&#8217;s a great read.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Smith, Charleston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading the only honest book ever written about South Carolina politics. I had avoided it like the plague because I had mistakenly thought since 1998 that the authors were paying homage to an aging Strom Thurmond. Boy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/29\/book-on-strom-a-must-read\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents","category-sc-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}