Mike Pence Memoir Could Define Him for 2024, but Donald Trump Looms Large On 4/9/21 at 10:54 AM EDT However, as with much U.S. politics in recent years, perceptions of the former vice president will also be framed through the lens of his old boss: Donald Trump. "Memoirs are always an opportunity for authors to spin history in a way that's most favorable to them—and Pence's will be no exception," Thomas Gift, lecturer in political science and founding director of the Centre on U.S. Politics at University College London, told Newsweek. "He will use the book to try to burnish his image, to ch...