Since it became a worldwide phenomenon, nobody has attempted to write an overall history of the game.
The writer has attempted to write an absolutely true book to see whether the shape of a country and the pattern of a month's action can, if truly presented, compete with a work of the imagination.
In "The Candidate," Samuel L. Popkin, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, and sometime campaign adviser, has attempted to write a kind of management bible for the business of presidential campaigning.
They've attempted to write a scarf-waver.
He was, in fact, the precise type of secular Enlightenment thinker that some members of the Texas State Board of Education have attempted to write out of their high school curriculum.
This in turn was refuted by Isaac Casaubon (1559 1614), who was outraged that Baronius had attempted to write ecclesiastical history without knowing either ancient Greek or Hebrew.
According to an F.B.I. memo written a few days before Anderson's column, "Whitten said that they have attempted to write this column very carefully so that whoever has the papers will not destroy them".
At the Sorbonne he had attempted to write a novel - "imitation Thomas Wolfe that happily was never published" - but by the time he got to San Francisco he had spent a summer living on Majorca writing poetry.
Following on from his book about the Hitler diaries, Harris had attempted to write "a sort of Baedeker guide to 1945 after Hitler had won, using all the Nazi plans and the Speer architectural drawings and so on.
Barlow's life, which encompassed the worlds of weird fiction, experimental poetry, and anthropology in English, Spanish, and Nahuatl is hard to tell: according to the scholar Marcos Legaria, nine people have attempted to write a Barlow biography so far, and all of them have given up.
The epoch that, with Darwin's assistance, came to nourish profound doubts about the hereafter was also, by a pleasing paradox, the heyday of interest in the spirit world, and one is startled to find him admitting, in a memoir of 1876, that "I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life".
