In the Claremont Review of Books, I review Lew Lehrman’s memoir:

A life well lived need not follow a single storyline. Lew Lehrman’s life has been well lived in many fields of endeavor, as he acknowledges by entitling his memoir The Sum of It All. It’s a title of many meanings. Lehrman is consumed with sums, both in business and in advocating balanced budgets and sound money. Yet, he takes his inspiration from Winston Churchill’s view of the primacy of history. As Lehrman writes, “whatever the merits of science and religion — though we justly revere the arts and humanities—history is the sum of it all.” There is much to summarize in Lehrman’s 86 years. He has lived four distinct and consequential public lives.