Volume 29, Number 20 · December 16, 1982
For Old Times' Sake
By James Fallows
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President
by Jimmy Carter
Bantam Books, 622 pp., $22.50
Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency
by Hamilton Jordan
Putnam's, 431 pp., $16.95
In 1975, when his ambitions for the presidency were taken seriously mainly by his family and his staff, Jimmy Carter wrote a book called Why Not the Best? It was a campaign biography, but it was quite different from the norm. To begin with, it was the candidate's own work, the result of drafts scratched out on lined pads in Carter's small, neat script. It also went far toward revealing the candidate's personality.
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