Volume 46, Number 13 · August 12, 1999

The People's Choice

By Garry Wills
I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up
by Jesse Ventura

Villard, 208 pp., $19.95

Body Slam: The Jesse Ventura Story
by Jake Tapper

St. Martin's, 249 pp., $5.99 (paper)

Me, by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente, Governor of Minnesota
as told to Garrison Keillor

Viking, 152 pp., $15.95

In Aristophanes' Birds, Herakles with his club makes an improbable member of the diplomatic corps sent down from Olympos:



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