RICHARD REEVES ON POLITICAL BOOKS
Richard Reeves on Political Books I began the last Sunday in April with The New York Times Book Review. Martin Nolan was reviewing three new books on Jerry Brown and, in passing, threw in his...
...First, for the record, Wills really...
...Richard Reeves on Political Books I began the last Sunday in April with The New York Times Book Review...
...Bullshit...
...I said, which was the...
...The idea, in this case, is that...
...Anyway, I began thinking, for the...
...Could Thomas Jefferson...
...Nolan, Reeves, and Wills...
...After the Times, I started on the...
...sounds boring, it isn't...
...brotherhood of the slide-rule...
...There he acquired his secular faith in efficiency, in technocratic approaches to government and to leading by bureaucratic example-all highlights of his Presidency...
...Could Lincoln survive that...
...four score and seven number again...
...Second, Inventing America is a long...
...makes fun of now may work, too...
...it into a profile of a man...
...considered a realist...
...By the end of the day, I had my answer...
...Martin Nolan was reviewing three new books on Jerry Brown and, in passing, threw in his own quick study of Jimmy Carter: "The dominant biographical fact of Jimmy Carter is not his agricultural or religious roots, but his training at Annapolis and in the Navy...
Vol. 10 • June 1978 • No. 4
