Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The few parts of the book that are valuable are those that Reeves researched by putting on his reporter's hat and coming up with fresh news. The most interesting section in Convention is that detailing the full story behind the rumors that Carter had at his disposal during the...
IN CONVENTION, Richard Reeves, one of American journalism's best political reproters, captures accurately the crazed freneticism, the Skinner-box-mouse-on-dexedrine atmosphere that prevails at political nominating conventions. Convention is a diary; a journal of the madness, as Reeves runs through Monday to Thursday of not the Republican...
THE BOOK IS a pallid, shortened imitation of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, 1972, but lacks that book's hard political reporting. That's probably because Jimmy Carter and his staff were pretty unwilling to share what was on their minds with reporters, or at least less willing...
The book is a tangle of anecdotes. Some are funny, some are interesting, but there's not nearly enough material here for even a magazine feature, let alone a full book. Reeves follows Clare Smith on her search for Hunter Thompson and recounts her ambiguous romantic entanglement with a young...
There are very few heroes at Reeves convention, but one of the few is Fritz Efaw. Efaw, a Vietnam war resister, came back to America for the first time in seven years as an alternate delegate for Americans living abroad, only to be slapped with extradition papers from his Oklahoma...