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To most Americans, Gerald R. Ford is a commoner of uncommon candor, an Everyman struggling manfully with the job of President. To Reporter Richard Reeves, Ford is "slow, unimaginative and not very articulate"-and none too candid either. In A Ford, Not a Lincoln (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $8.95), a new...
Reeves, 38, a contributing editor of New York magazine, is not just another political reporter. In a journalistic specialty known for apple polishing, he has made his way by following the old maxim that the best way for a reporter to look upon a politician is, as a misanthropic editor...
At first avoiding politics, he studied engineering at Hoboken's Stevens Institute of Technology, graduated in 1960 and worked days as an engineer, nights as editor of a local weekly. Reeves found he liked newspapering so much that he became a reporter for the Newark Evening News, made a...
Pat Reactions. In three years he leaped over a city-roomful of old Times hands to become chief New York political reporter. Reeves also aroused enough jealousies to keep him from climbing further, so he quit in 1971 and became a one-man journalistic conglomerate. He wrote for both Harper...
Reeves began interviewing the first of 150 sources for his book after Ford became Vice President, then followed him to the White House, interrogating aides at their homes and reading mountains of documents. Says he: