Volume 25, Number 8 · May 18, 1978
Why He's Not the Best
By Marshall Frady
Dasher: The Roots and the Rising of Jimmy Carter
by James Wooten
Summit Books, 377 pp., $11.95
For most of the country, the event of Jimmy Carter's installation at last as president of the United States was not unlike waking up one morning to find oneself married to a stranger. There was a stir of dim unease in the windy sensation of it all. It had been barely a year since he had first come forth with his officious, half-moon grin—a trim, subdued, mannerly, one-time provincial governor, a mild and genial Georgian, to all appearances absolutely serious about this overweening intention of his, but wholly and whimsically marginal to the general political estate. The code designation applied to him by the Secret Service during those early months, 'Dasher,' could as well have been inspired by the unlikely plunging of his efforts.
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