The missing words in Ron DeSantis’ new memoir

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The missing words in Ron DeSantis’ new memoir

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(Bill Sternberg is a veteran Washington journalist and former editorial page editor of USA Today.)

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Callaway Climate Insights) — The new book by Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida who is gearing up to run for president, is no literary masterpiece. A New York Times reviewer says it is mostly “free of anything that resembles charisma or a discernible sense of humor” and “reads like a politician’s memoir churned out by ChatGPT.”

Even so, I shelled out $15.99 for the Kindle version of “The Courage to Be Free,” because I wanted to see what DeSantis has to say about climate change, arguably the most difficult long-term challenge facing his home state and the world. The answer is: virtually nothing.

A search for “climate change” in the 282-page tome yields no results. The text does contain two references to the economic climate in Florida (superior and favorable) and one to the business climate in New York (poor).

“Global warming” appears once, in a way designed to appeal to the climate skeptics and deniers in the conservative base. “Alarmism about global warming,” DeSantis writes, “serves as the pretext for massive social engineering.”

DeSantis’ views on climate change are important…

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Trey has been an editor and author at 24/7 Wall St. for more than a decade, where he has published thousands of articles analyzing corporate earnings, dividend stocks, short interest, insider buying, private equity, and market trends. His comprehensive coverage spans the full spectrum of financial markets, from blue-chip stalwarts to emerging growth companies.

Beyond 24/7 Wall St., Trey has created and edited financial content for Benzinga and AOL's BloggingStocks, contributing additional hundreds of articles to the investment community. He previously oversaw the 24/7 Climate Insights site, managing editorial operations and content strategy, and currently oversees and creates content for My Investing News.

Trey's editorial expertise extends across multiple publishing environments. He served as production editor at Dearborn Financial Publishing and development editor at Kaplan, where he helped shape financial education materials. Earlier in his career, he worked as a writer-producer at SVE. His freelance editing portfolio includes work for prestigious clients such as Sage Publications, Rand McNally, the Institute for Supply Management, the American Library Association, Eggplant Literary Productions, and Spiegel.

Outside of financial journalism, Trey writes fiction and has been an active member of the writing community for years, overseeing a long-running critique group and moderating workshop sessions at regional conventions. He lives with his family in an old house in the Midwest.

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