Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new book “The Courage to be Free” suffers from a “dull coldness” that “all the culture war Mad Libs can't distract from,” New York Times critic Jennifer Szalai writes.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new book struggles to humanize the polarizing leader, New York Times critic Jennifer Szalai opines in a scathing review ahead of the book’s Thursday release. “The Courage to be Free” suffers from a “dull coldness” that “all the culture war Mad Libs can't distract from,” Szalai writes. DeSantis’ book drops Thursday and will kick off a media tour that he’s expected to parlay into an attempt to be the Republican nominee in 2024.
According to early reviews, the book stays very much within DeSantis’ wheelhouse—a hatred for newspapers,and continued culture war discourse. But strategists hoping the book will endear him to a national audience will be “sorely disappointed,” Szalai writes. “The bullying sense of superiority is unmistakable, even when he tries to gussy it up in a mantle of freedom,” she added.
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