Perhaps even more intriguing, however, have been the rhetorical offerings of Mr Trump’s wife, Melania, who says almost nothing at all. Now, less than a month before election day, Mrs Trump has published a memoir,

Depending on how you define “memoir” — must it be a coherent narrative, or does a posthumous collection of diary entries suffice? — roughly a dozen first ladies of the United States have penned a total of more than 20 accounts of White House life ( Hillary Clinton, who simply will not be stopped, is responsible for four on her own).