Word: bakshian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech lacked a central inspirational theme, which had been one of his hallmarks as the Great Communicator. Instead, it read like a laundry list of legislative goals. "It was less a speech in the typical Ronald Reagan style and more of a paper, a document," said Speechwriter Bakshian...
...Bakshian's political outlook doesn't seep into the book; it overwhelms it. Any Democrat is either a fool or a lecher. While the author spends 10 single-spaced pages spelling out the intricacies of Chappaquiddick (and quoting George F. Will), he disregards Bush's role in the CIA, Connally's adventure in the dairy business and Reagan's innumerable bloopers. Instead of a balanced view of Big John, we are treated to a verbatim transcript of his plan for peace in the Middle East. To Bakshian, anything to the left of Eisenhower is deserving of slander. "So John Anderson...
...reveal--several times, in fact--that he wrote them. But then again, the man who wrote this book boasts that he has been published in international editions of Reader's Digest. There are numerous factual errors; on a list of obstacles that stand between the candidates and the conventions, Bakshian overlooks the New York primary. Where Bakshian is at his best--conversational, witty, on target--he is quoting liberally from people who really know their stuff and adding in analysis that, given two months and a large contract, anybody could have thought...
This election year is already depressing enough without books like this. But we can all be thankful at least for one thing: Aram Bakshian, Jr. isn't running for president...
Late at night, a glass of port in one hand and his brain in the other, Bakshian looked out over the Potomac and composed his first book...