Word: legacyism
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WRITING THE BIOGRAPHY of James Boswell, whose Life of Johnson is by common consent the greatest biography ever written, is a task that appears to damn the writer before his ink meets paper. All the more so if one considers that Frank Brady's new book on Boswell's later...
The surge that Jesse Jackson called forth will not go away. Nor will the fears it roused in the South and in the Northern urban centers. It will be there in 1988, under Jackson's name or another. It is his legacy to the election of 1988. How much...
There remains then a last ugly legacy of the 1984 election to the election of 1988: that all the new underswells and surges will have to find their way to a decision through a system of presidential politics now grown so obsolete as to be dangerous.
Ferraro's dispassionate assessment of her own performance, that she was a "credible candidate," significantly understates the legacy of her campaign. Says her issues director, Steve Engelberg: "The myth that a woman couldn't be up to the stress of a national campaign was exploded." Her press secretary, Francis O...
Nor did Ferraro have a long set of "apron strings," as the female equivalent of coattails has been condescendingly dubbed. Many women leaders now acknowledge that those who thought a breakthrough candidacy would lead to huge gains among female officeholders were hoping for too much. Says Kathy Wilson, head of...