Volume 36, Number 5 · March 30, 1989
Confidence Boy
By Nicholas Lemann
The Making of a Senator: Dan Quayle
by Richard F. Fenno Jr.
Congressional Quarterly Press, 180 pp., $19.95
Dan Quayle's fellow members of the large Republican Senate class of 1980 included Paula Hawkins of Florida, Jeremiah Denton of Alabama, John East of North Carolina, Steve Symms of Idaho, James Abdnor of South Dakota, and Alfonse D'Amato of New York. Richard Fenno's book on Quayle's first term in the Senate, which is part of a larger study of the Senate and was written before Quayle became George Bush's running mate, judges him in comparison to the other freshmen. This explains how a book intended to be complimentary will do little to reassure readers worrying about Quayle's place in line for the presidency.
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