One of the more laughable claims made by politicians is the one insisting that they seek office strictly to serve the public. We know who is really being served and what’s on the menu: money, status, travel, face time with Wolf Blitzer, and, if they score really big, free housing and the nuclear codes. Yet as Mark Stein makes clear in “The Presidential Fringe,” his amusing and strangely inspiring chronicle of little-known candidates in American history, there are presidential hopefuls who really do give their all with no...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 02, 2020 20:03 UTC