Books: Doing It on the Road

PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE by Sidney Blumenthal

HarperCollins; 386 pages; $22.95

ROAD SHOW by Roger Simon; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 356 pages; $19.95

SEE HOW THEY RUN by Paul Taylor; Knopf; 305 pages; $22.95

Given a choice between submitting to root-canal work and reading a book about the 1988 presidential campaign, many people might opt for the former. Who, after all, truly yearns to review the speeches of Jack Kemp? To trace once more the pitiful downfall of Gary Hart? To recall the days when George Bush acted more like Jack the Ripper than Mr. Kind-and-Gentle? Or to relive the moment when Michael...

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