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...Morris around, Clinton doesn't have to devote every waking hour to political calculation. He knows Morris will take care of that. He can concentrate on being the benevolent father that Americans--and his own self-image and strategy--seem to require. As Morris once told Clinton biographer David Maraniss, Clinton needs to be engaged in "some important, valiant fight for the good of the world to lend coherence and structure to his life. When he didn't have those fights, he would eat away at himself, he would become depressed, paranoid, surly and, one suspects, escapist." Morris neutralizes that...
When it comes to making the case for character, both men are blessed and cursed by masterly biographers--David Maraniss for Clinton, Richard Ben Cramer for Dole--whose mesmerizing accounts of their lives will provide the road map to voters and scribblers for years to come. Bob Dole of Russell, Kansas, grew up with a strong family in the kind of small town that Bill Clinton pretends to come from. The Man from Hope actually grew up in Hot Springs, a resort town of healing waters and racetracks and churches built on gambling money. Both had powerhouse working mothers--Virginia...
...Morris has been a trusted adviser to Clinton since 1978, when the young attorney general of Arkansas first decided to run for Governor and Morris turned Clinton on to the power of polling. According to a Clinton biography by David Maraniss of the Washington Post, Clinton and Morris had a falling out after that election, reconciled briefly in 1980 (even though Clinton lost his re-election bid) and then formed an unshakable bond in 1982, when Morris helped Clinton reinvent himself politically and develop the "permanent campaign" strategy that Clinton still employs. Possibly apocryphal stories abound about...
...articles appeared in last week's Arts pages without proper credits for their writers. Joe Matthews was the author of "Clinton: A Great (If not Good) American Success Story," the review of David Maraniss' new Bill Clinton biography. Jennifer 8. Lee wrote the review of the Fogg Museum's Chasing Shadows photography exhibition, "Shadows Captures Photography's Story...
...Maraniss's narrative ends with Clinton's announcement of his candidacy for president in 1991. We sense that First in His Class, could have further chapters, but Maraniss, ever cautious, doesn't feel ready to write them...