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  • The World According to J.C.: A Tedious Book By One of America's Worst Ex-President

    11/02/2005 10:11:32 AM PST · by SirLinksalot · 34 replies · 1,099+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 11/02/2005 | Bret Stephens
    The World According to J.C. "Tedious" doesn't begin to describe the new book by America's worst ex-president. BY BRET STEPHENS Jimmy Carter's 20th book is a tedious meditation about the appropriate uses of moral values in political life--as wisely and humbly exemplified by Himself--and of their misuses under the current Bush administration. But tedious isn't quite the right word here, because it suggests mere boredom while Mr. Carter's prose manages to be irritating as well. Is there an English-language equivalent to the German Rechthaberei, which loosely translates as the state of thinking and behaving as if you're in the right...