The American Enterprise, March 1st, 1997
By Cary Reich; Doubleday, 875 pages, $35
Nelson Rockefeller was the symbol of a type of liberal Republican that in recent years was assumed to be extinct. Colin Powell became perhaps this decade's only self-professed "Rockefeller Republican's when he briefly preened before TV cameras in the fall of 1995 before forsaking electoral politics for the call of the lecture circuit.
Rockefeller himself had the misfortune to begin his career as a presidential candidate when the power base of the Republican party was shifting geographically to the West and ideologically to the right. He was unsucces...
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