While it is not outstanding by any stretch, it remains watchable for the earnestness with which it pushes its simple agenda. Just when you feel you have gotten its measure,The Most Beautiful Girl ...

SUMMERS: You write to the reader in the opening of this book that - I need you to believe that sweet earnestness still exists. And Dylan, that is just something that - from everything I've seen ...

but he is let down by material that turns the tortured role of president into a caricature of American earnestness.” The Hollywood Reporter criticised the parallels with real-life politics ...