Volume 24, Number 13 · August 4, 1977
Winner Take Nothing
By Nicholas von Hoffman
Marathon: The Pursuit of the Presidency, 1972-1976
by Jules Witcover
Viking, 684 pp., $14.95
A Government As Good As Its People
by Jimmy Carter
Simon and Schuster, 262 pp., $8.95
If you're up for instant nostalgia (rhymes with neuralgia), do you remember 'ethnic purity,' 'lust in the heart,' what Betty Ford would do if her daughter had an affair, and Earl Butz's incisive description of the three things the 'coloreds' really want? That and every other detail about the 1976 presidential marathon is in Jules Witcover's Marathon, which will make you feel as if you've just run twenty-six miles when you break the tape on the 656th page.
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