>He's probably spent the least amount of time dealing with politics I'm not sure about that--he's written a lot of political books about particular countries/w

>He's probably spent the least amount of time dealing with politics I'm not sure about that--he's written a lot of political books about particular countries/wars, each of them lengthy and painstakingly researched and footnoted--they alone would have been an ample life's work for most people. (I mean the earlier books, not the recent ones mostly based on interviews/conversations.) Then there's all the speeches, conversations, interviews etc on political topics.