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...healthy Limits. A fashionable cynicism is that anybody so ambitious that he would put up with what it takes to get nominated and elected is morally disqualified for the presidency. Neustadt puts it more sensibly: Presidents need "drive but not drivenness." L.B.J., Nixon and Carter were all driven. Henry Graff of Columbia notes that we like a presidential candidate to look "called," though it is hard to achieve this effect when you are trying to sell yourself...
DIED. Robert de Graff, 86, innovative co-founder of Pocket Books who revolutionized American publishing when he successfully marketed the first paperbacks in the U.S.; in Mill Neck, N.Y. In 1939, De Graff set out to distribute pocket-size, glossy-covered 25? paperbacks, using magazine-marketing techniques to sell them at newsstands and in grocery and drugstore chains. A test run of 100,000 paperbacks, including the likes of Lost Horizon and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, sold out the first week. By the time De Graff left active leadership of the company in 1957, Pocket Books' annual...
Professor Henry Graff of Columbia points out that in the 19th century most Americans had only the vaguest idea what their President looked like. Today everyone can "see" the President practically every day. We now know so much about the man while he is in office, and about his career before he got there, that it might seem there is nothing left for "history" to say. But in this age of paper and microfilm, Government and its officials are generating documentation at a prodigious rate. As scholars mine all this material (some of it under security restrictions for 20 years...
Americans saw their lives as an upward march toward the light. Or, as Columbia University Historian Henry Graff says, "they pictured America riding a train going up a mountain. It went round and round, but always onward and upward. The only interruptions were occasional tunnels-wars and depressions. It would suddenly go dark and then the light would stream in again...
...housed in the Library of Congress in Washington. But Presidents starting with Hoover have preferred that their papers rest in their own libraries. Some scholars have argued that it is more convenient to centralize presidential collections, rather than scatter them across the nation in what Columbia Historian Henry Graff terms "the pyramids of our times." Yet, as the National Archives points out, a quadrennial flood of documents by the millions would probably overwhelm any single institution. Also, as one Government archivist concedes, "not all scholars live in Washington...