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...what Edwin Diamond and Bruce Mazlish are selling in this political year bio of Jimmy Carter, the president proved on Tuesday that he is both a part of, and apart from, the people of New Hampshire. Carter is running for reelection, the authors would tell us, because of his deep psychological need to "measure up and win." The man from Georgia picked up his 49 per cent by carefully managing to control his emotions and quell the steamy contradictions which threaten at any moment to split his newly-parted scalp. Carter got to the White House through his belief...
...Carter, just as most of us are influenced by both mother and father"), but what lies between the lines is genuinely scary. "We believe that Carter really believes in his own promises, and his desire to bring compassion and justice to the victims of the sinful world," Mazlish and Diamond conclude; it's just that the angels watching over the Oval Office can't get it all together...
...Jimmy Carter? "He is a complex, contradictory personality," Mazlish and Diamond say. They continue in a flash of insight: "Most of us, of course, are complex and full of contradictions." Carter's brand of neo-populist rhetoric and waffling reflects those contradictions. Expediency exists as part of Carter's "realism." The president blurs the lines between liberalism and conservatism because he must be "true to his own character, with its basic need to embrace contradictions." Carter's remembrances of his downtrodden childhood, his career as a "nuclear engineer," his faith in Bert Lance--all explained...
...times, Mazlish and Diamond descend from the simplistic into the banal. In various parts of the book, the authors compare Carter to DeGaulle, Gandhi, the young Luther (a la Erik Erikson) Oliver Cromwell and Handsome Lake, a Seneca Indian who had a series of revelations that led to his belief in his own leadership. Where other presidents are heroes or policy-makers, Carter belongs in the ranks of "revitalizers." Bear with the authors' dangling prose...
...ratings race with increasing regularity, and is even closing in on CBS, the longtime leader (see chart). "ABC is developing an authentic success," concedes Robert ("Shad") Northshield, executive producer of CBS's adventurous new Sunday Morning magazine show. "They are one hell of an outfit." Adds Press Critic Edwin Diamond: "Roone Arledge is Captain Success...