Rod Blagojevich’s Tips for Prison Survival, Just in Time for Trump

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Rod Blagojevich’s Tips for Prison Survival, Just in Time for Trump
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Charles Bethea on the former governor of Illinois, who served time for trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat and advises buffing up, finding a cool nickname, and watching out for crazies urinating in the oatmeal.

“I’d have just been coming home a couple weeks ago had President Trump not, you know, shortened it,” Blagojevich said recently. “I keep having this dream where I’m still in prison,” he went on. “Probably because I’m writing this book.” Since last August, Blagojevich has been at work on a memoir about his time in the clink, with “Gangster Disciples . . . Sinaloa drug-cartel leaders . . . murderers, bank robbers, sex offenders,” and Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling.

If you practice it, you get better at it. Your range increases a little bit. Your voice kind of expands. Then you can work on what Frank Sinatra was big on—phrasing. Before I knew it, the day was over.” Rather than watch TV or movies, Blago recommends books. “I read the Bible every day,” he recalled. He devoured Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning” three times. “It’s very short, and it has a lot of profound things in it,” he explained.

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