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Article: Hard right; the rise of Jesse Helms.
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- National Review
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- December 5, 1986
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Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms
by Ernest B. Furgurson (Norton, 302 pp., $18.95)
ERNEST B. FURGURSON introduces Jesse Helms as a man whose "greatest impact is yet to be felt.' Furgurson, the Baltimore Sun's Washington bureau chief, says Helms should be taken seriously. That's why he wrote this book. Of course, Helms is already taken seriously by conservatives and North Carolina voters. The only people who don't take Helms seriously are members of the liberal press. Therein lies the difficulty with this biography.
Furgurson says that Helms is probably the second most powerful conservative in the country right now; however, he attributes ...