Volume 43, Number 4 · February 29, 1996
Pulp Politics
By Christopher Hitchens
Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics
by Anonymous
Random House, 366 pp., $24.00
The People's Choice: A Cautionary Tale
by Jeff Greenfield
Putnam, 309 pp., $22.95
The Last Debate
by Jim Lehrer
Random House, 318 pp., $23.00
In 1971, Jerry Bruno and Jeff Greenfield jointly wrote a book called The Advance Man. Bruno had been 'advance man' for the John F. Kennedy campaign when the techniques of spin and momentum were in their relative infancy, and Greenfield had performed something of the same office for the Robert Kennedy campaign in 1968. (Bruno had also been the 'advance man' for the presidential trip to Dallas in November of 1963, and in this memoir he vividly described the atmosphere of hate and venom in that city, rightly locating it not on the Birchite fringe but in the pitiless conflict between the Connally and Yarborough wings of the Texas Democratic establishment. It was their vicious squabbling, for example, that led to the fatal change in the route of Kennedy's motorcade.
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