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IN CONVENTION, Richard Reeves, one of American journalism's best political reproters, captures accurately the crazed freneticism, the Skinner-box-mouse-on-dexedrine atmosphere that prevails at political nominating conventions. Convention is a diary; a journal of the madness, as Reeves runs through Monday to Thursday of not the Republican...
Reeves also invited selected delegates and other conventioneers to keep diaries, and the material selected from these forms the thread of continuity through what is basically a stream of anecdotes. Thus the diarists are stuck with stupid appellatives--Clare Smith, a 17 year old high school student from Ohio, becomes...
The book is a tangle of anecdotes. Some are funny, some are interesting, but there's not nearly enough material here for even a magazine feature, let alone a full book. Reeves follows Clare Smith on her search for Hunter Thompson and recounts her ambiguous romantic entanglement with a young...
The center of the turmoil was New York magazine. Murdoch's peppery new editor, James Brady, 48, fought his way through snow and ice on Monday morning to find his office scarcely less chilling. There to greet him was a sheaf of resignations. Departing were not only the magazine...
Frantic Search. Another problem: the scheduled cover story on how President-elect Jimmy Carter chose Walter Mondale as his running mate had been written by one of the missing, Reeves. Brady asked him if he could use the story. Reeves refused. After a frantic search, Brady settled on a piece...