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...point about someone like Paul and his group is not to feel envious or to feel diminished by them,” Kidder says. “But it’s inevitable, we’re human, you will feel that...
...honestly reporting his own reactions in the book, Kidder says he aimed “to acknowledge the kind of discomfort that one’s bound to feel from time to time in the company of a guy like that”—to make his book truer and fuller than “a campaign biography...
...also describes instances where he challenged Farmer’s inflexible idealism and doubted the man that many say is perfect. (Kidder dutifully records just how Farmer won almost all of their intellectual debates.) The pair, as Kidder tells it, are in nearly constant dialogue—and, towards the end of the book, something like conflict...
Writing a book on someone is “an odd basis for a relationship, for friendship,” Kidder says. “I’m not sure I’d let anyone do this...
...Mountains Beyond Mountains, Farmer—always smiling—tossed barbs the author’s way, repeatedly mocking Kidder’s educational pedigree of Andover and Harvard. Farmer also wryly announced plans to retaliate by publishing his own multi-volume version of the months he and Kidder spent together, including such installments as Cry, the Beloved Tracy. Playing on the titles of Kidder’s most laurelled works, he joked that he would publish more books about Haiti: Hut for Kidder’s House and Slum for his Hometown...