Volume 43, Number 5 · March 21, 1996
Too Nice to Win?
By Alan Ryan
Time Present, Time Past: A Memoir
by Bill Bradley
Knopf, 442 pp., $26.00
Senator Bradley's reflections on his life in politics inspire the same exasperated affection as the Senator himself—ungrudging affection for the man and exasperation with the politician. The book exudes decency, honesty, and a deep love of his country, but liberals longing to be led into battle will not find their general in these pages. They will hear no battle cries and will have their blood stirred by no trumpets. Whatever else it may be, Time Present, Time Past is neither the centrist Democrat's counter to Colin Powell's autobiography, nor an ideological riposte to Newt Gingrich and To Renew America. It is a wholly admirable book, and a pretty depressing one.
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