He caught his problem from us, becoming too American, too much like the spinners and weavers of truth substitutes such as Michael Deaver and James Carville, who are the modern counterparts of the biblical makers of false images. Who can deny he lived among predators within the Washington Beltway, a zone of fancy whose principal product is the rearrangement of reality? Morris, a native of South Africa, merely took on the coloration of his Washington, D.C., surroundings, as animals and birds do to protect themselves against predators. It is the New Age version of salvation and redemption and the first article of the Advertising/Public Relations Creed: I believe that I can be born again not through water and the spirit but through anti-aging creams and Grecian Formula. UNDATED _ Ronald Reagan’s authorized biographer, Edmund Morris, is suffering for committing America’s original sin: the invention and reinvention of the self.
(Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of”My Brother Joseph,”published by St.
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