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...contributions to the 1976 campaign--his first--included a total of $299,834 from business interests: $46,580 of that from Ray Kroc, chairman of the board of McDonald's Corporation; $48,981 from medical groups, and $47,250 from construction contractors. Hartley covers the issues of possible political influence resulting from these contributions by quoting Thompson: "I've not made a single promise. Besides, what could I do for Ray Kroc...
...ADDITION to paying scant attention to criticism of Thampson, Hartley includes in the early part of the book cloying descriptions of Thompson's childhood like the following...
...more significant problem is the apparent lack of any prupose for writing this book. In his preface, Hartley writes that the names that come to mind as practitioners of today's "modern politics" are Jimmy Carter, Jerry Brown, and Jim Thompson. At no point in the text, though, does Hartley pursue the similarities among the three men or the concept of "modern politics...
...Hartley also believes that Thompson is worth writing about because he might run for the Presidency some day. However, the only other person in the book who thinks so is Thompson himself, who inscribed a friend's 1953 high school yearbook: "Jim Thompson, Pres...
...makes you think that Hartley's sublime reason for writing such a book was to assure his own entree into the envisioned Big Jim Administration...