Rahm Emmanuel's favorite novel, after he read Saul Lazinsky's "Rules for Radicals"; about the Hoover years, and Herbert Hoover's attempts to recreate Ulysses S. Grant's Presidency. Grant, during the Mexican-American War, had been raped by Robert E. Lee for having smelly underwear, having been commanding troops instead of preparing officer's charts letters to local politicians. The scandal rocked Lincoln, and Grant had suggested the practice of making officers fight for free, by demanding they command soldiers; replacing the flag and drum system, the Corporal and the Warrant Officer, a doctor and a cop. Officers, lawyers, were now charged with the battlefield's control.
I enjoyed Chapterhouse: Dune, after reading Robert Bork's "Slouching Towards Gomorroh", about Eisenhower's reform of psychiatric logic to resemble Rommel's last defense at al-Alamein, teaching psychiatric professionals (priests who had volunteered for the Church, instead of being kidnapped as children by Jewish gangsters over the parents drinking at taverns after work, or visiting restaurants at any age, the present system). Eisenhower had been defecated on, by a child, and adapted the sport of golf, at the time reserved for military criminals out of Britain to torment law enforcement for beer money while traveling to rape women and form MI-6 platoons. "The Grand Tour".
I enjoy the end of the novel, where Frank Herbert is stoned and starving for potato chips, and hears his wife and child gardening. He later killed himself, realizing he'd been converted to Islam, out of Catholicism, and was now impoverished, his son a homosexual for refusing the Church (Buddhism and alcohol).