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Article: Jesse Jackson and His Campaign
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 11, 1987
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THUNDER IN AMERICA
The Improbable Presidential
Campaign of Jesse Jackson
By Bob Faw and Nancy Skelton
Texas Monthly Press. 263 pp. $16.95
SELDOM DO losing presidential candidates notch as much ink and
air time as did Jesse L. Jackson during his meteoric, metaphoric and
historic 1984 run. It is noteworthy therefore that this book
succeeds in expanding our understanding and insight about what
authors Faw and Skelton term "a special-sometimes magical, sometimes
perverse-moment in American political history." More than a pasted-up
scrapbook of their clippings, these two reporters provide a tough,
balanced examination of Jackson's "part crusade, part carnival."
They strip away layers of ...