Bill Weld is not a serious candidate for president. Someone who preferred the Democrat to the Republican for president in 2008 and 2016 isn't a serious Republican figure. And it's hard to forget the dilettante governor getting so bored atop Massachusetts state government in 1997 that he quit mid-term in the fruitless pursuit of a lesser office.
So Weld's challenge to President Donald Trump isn't for real.
De Gaulle By Julian Jackson Harvard University Press August 2018 928 pages
In his magisterial biography of de Gaulle, Julian Jackson has done us a great service: he has distilled the thousands of books and articles about Charles de Gaulle into a brilliant, fascinating biography. He has written, in fact, the definitive English-language biography of de Gaulle.
