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...Jimmy Carter's nature is not really so surprising. It would not be too extreme to say that no presidential campaign in American history has succeeded in accurately portraying the candidates' real personalities. On the other hand, past candidates have been more successful than Carter in presenting a comprehensible portrait of themselves to the voters, regardless of accuracy. And therein lies a measure of Gerald Ford's success...
Kaufman and Ferber have embodied--but never too seriously--this peculiar blend of love and commitment in the figure of the late Aubrey Cavendish, the patriarch of this royal family of the theater, whose portrait hangs high on the wall in the Cavendish living room. The great Aubrey Cavendish never quit. He allowed himself time off from his work only once in his life, after finishing the last performance of his last tour, which was ending that night. He did all four curtain calls and only when the curtain had dropped for the last time did he allow himself...
...brilliantly written; it is not an enduring piece of literature. A certain ideological simplicity mars what is otherwise a powerful commentary. His narrative often wanders into reminiscences that seem trivial. But precisely for these reasons, Born on the Fourth of July succeeds and is memorable. An intimate and convincing portrait of Kovic emerges: we permit him his autobiographical indulgences as well as his justified outrage. This serves to continually remind us that he is a real man choked with sincere anguish, longing to be heard, and not a literary fiction. Look at me, Kovic seems to say, and never forget...
...Philadelphia Inquirer drew rock breakers in an Eastern European chain gang whispering, "President Ford declared our independence. Pass it on." And the Richmond News-Leader's Jeff Mac Nelly put Carter in a Texas barroom full of jug-eared Lyndon Johnson lookalikes; the candidate points to a portrait of L.B.J. over the bar and asks, "Say, who is that nasty-lookin' snake up there? He sure is ugly...
Blind Ambition is Dean's long-awaited accounting of the part he played in America's worst and most public political scandal. Sparsely told and crammed with intriguing dialogue, it presents a surprisingly unflattering self-portrait. Dean berates himself as "a squealer" and describes himself as too "naive and guppy-like" to object to the criminal activities in Richard Nixon's White House-at least until it was too late...