Volume 21, Number 14 · September 19, 1974
Just Plain Jerry
By Nicholas von Hoffman
Jerry Ford, Up Close: An Investigative Biography
by Bud Vestal
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 214 pp., $7.95
'He's not a bit fraudulent, and we can't find anything really nasty to say about him,' Jerry Ford's college year-book notes. Bud Vestal comes to the same conclusion, which is an impediment in writing a book that describes itself as 'an investigative biography.' Perhaps more than with most of us, what you see of Jerry Ford is all there is, which may make him a fine man but a poor president.
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