Richard Reeves on Political Books
Richard Reeves on Political Books In Daniel Schorr's new book. lairing the Air, lie tells of a long night and a lot of wine in Los Angeles with lidward Asner. The actor who played Lou Grant,...
...the Carter-Brown contest will come down to style...
...ti> l)e\"i-rjjn...
...dark skies...
...A good conversational stab at the creeping cultural differences between ( .ililnriii:iiiN .itul us wu> nlleied me by Judith Brown, a research consultant who I K I ^ worked on both coasts: "In Vv...
...It's a <«lorI<<I another lime, hul I once had a peripheral involvement in \ i « )'nfk magazine's creation of New West, and lh;- must ini|>i>r1ani L - S M » I I learned In carpctbagging New Yorkers was that lhe v.i>i\iv "We need il now...
...The White House, as a matter of fact, already has jumped to that conclusion, guessing that Carter's real 1980 contest will be in the Democratic primary elections against the young California governor...
...Wartime by Milovan Djilas...
...lunihling hiiildin-js...
...each month...
...and li.iu- declared Jason Kohards IVsidcnr...
...In " " W a s h i n g t o n : Behind Closed Doors...
...The candidates will represent clashing cultures...
...a Horatio Alger hero...
...Carter and Brown will not be that far apart on what The NewRepublic calls "issues/' Hell, in 1976, both men endorsed the HumphreyHawkins full-employment bill, when neither of them believed in it...
...it's |)h\si(.al...
...when \ U all know he's actually Bon Bradlcc...
...Jules W i t c o v e r ' s Marathon, Elizabeth Drew's American Journal, and Robert Shogan's Promises to Keep...
...Celebrity, an essence developed in hidden California laboratories, is a perishable commodity and Carter as a f a s c i n a t i o n - o b j e c t will be a squee/ed-out lemon, like authors dropped from the "Tonight Show" roster after too many appearances...
...A p.iNNinn.ile hi lie m e m o i r In limespeiMMi fiia«.e Liechtenstein, published October 15 by the Dial Press...
...ABC television's •sade-in-Biirbank pipe dream about :>>vv the nation is governed, the director of the CIA and a young recruit are talking in front of the Jefferson Memorial and within a sentence-and-a.half they have reached the banks of the old C&O canal in Georgetown a pace the Concorde would have trouble matching...
...But Brown will have some juice left, a combination of personal mystery and unpredictability...
...Yoik...
...You don't have to exert energv...
...The actor who played Lou Grant, the television news director on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show...
...So...
...White House Watch: The Ford Years by John Osborne, published in September by New Republic Books, shows a really fine reporter struggling to figure nut a sliiniblin;' I'tvMdenl...
...They" are turning news into entertainment, have eliminated five miles of Washington in a preemptive camera Richard Reeves h the author o/Convention...
...Unless we strike first...
...The sketch of Jimmy Curler that comes off ihe pages of these books is of a hionic grind...
...You can just la\ back and absorb it...
...Haunting fascination, w i l l be campaigning against boredom and against us...
...Like the rich, ( .iliromi.il]> .tie ilillVruit from you .iiul m>\ I ' I K V aie ihuak'niii;: everything sacred to America: work, ambition...
...That's a long career and Jason Robards may soon have to grow a beard...
...Schorr suddenly realized that he was thinking Asner was another out-of-work newsman, instead of an actor changing television series...
...A great contest, about which I will make a couple of guesses: First, since they both can afford pollsters...
...cut...
...Jerry Brown...
...A very Eastern American Last man...
...Djilas is a good reporter, but what makes the book extraordinary is h i s communist interpretation of events, large and small a painless, wondrous education in Mai \ N t thinking...
...Millerin...
...a .spiritual, cerebral environment . . . In (.ilitorma...
...Us against them...
...published by Marcourt...
...This time they all happen to be...
...So von put ciicigv into uvalin1.* a decent cm ironnicnl...
...Feeling sorry for himself and Asner...
...I'll at least mention the books that I 1 - U I I K I worthwhile...
...This column will really be about books rather than national security...
...t h e r e ' s not JS irikh heaun anuind \ o u . there's dirt...
...in the 1 ast...
...In fact, a Carter book-jn-progress by William Lec Miller, director of the Poynter Center at Indiana University, will argue thai the Georgian succeeded nationally because he exemplified the fading virtues of smalltown Yankee Puritanism and work ethic he was a nostalgia candidate...
...Second, that the advantages of Carter's incumbency will be offset by Brown's freshness or, the word I would use, "'mystery.'' By then, media being what it is, we will know almost everything about Carter the puritan grind...
...determination, and hard work...
...is a marvelous insider's account of the war, or wars, in Yugoslavia from 1941 to 1945...
...If that is true, the 1980 presidential election may be my war the driven against the laid back, the Yankee against California...
...have no meaning in Los Angeles...
...the ploas.ml environment is readv-niade...
...Starting from that base, under a dark sk...
...I would bet that the Cuban will again become a major American star, as he was in the late 1950s...
...Clearing the Air by Daniel Schorr, which will be published b> Ilnuulilon Mifflin on October 31, is a short course in corporate journalism- it might be the first convincing (i.e., best-selling) book about how television news actually works...
...To me it is clear the time has conic: The :-nited States must declare war on California...
...His column will be a regular feature of The Washington Monthly...
...I don't know what those two facts- or fantasies mean to you...
...Brace Jovanovich...
...more or less, about journalism...
...Drive versus diffidence...
...i u l . i l \ ou think of The New York Times as all gu...
...ni\ paiiiotism and militalism were aroused h\ reading and thinking about the first wave of 1976 Schram's Running for President...
...l i e understands that as long as the folks out there think tlicy don't know what you're really like, you still have some rating points left, ( l e w politicians, 1 think, understand that they have to be capable of surprise to survive in an atmosphere of massive and instantaneous communications...
...One who instinctively knows seems to be Fidel Castro...
...He talked about love, but he lived out a pattern of awesome amb.lion...
...Jimmy Cark'-r against Jerry Brown...
...How much more can we take...
...snow liiv...
Vol. 9 • October 1977 • No. 8
