In Print

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It was with no apparent sense of irony that Jimmy Carter’s 1976 campaign autobiography was titled Why Not the Best? That very question would come up with increasing frequency in the years after Carter’s election, only then it was being asked not as a rhetorical device to sell books but by Americans who refused to believe that this ineffectual, uninspiring milquetoast was the best a great nation could do.

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