Word: 20th
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...attack in 1993 and with the reappearance last spring of the radioactive symptoms--is well along in its postgraduate phase. I share this with you (as they say in group) because the history of my heart's misadventures happens, luckily for me, to parallel the story of the late 20th century's medical advances in the treatment of heart disease. And because at the American Heart Association's meeting last week in Dallas, still more remarkable new treatments were auditioned. I have enjoyed, so far, an existential scissors graph: my heart gets worse; medicine gets better. (How long will this...
Wolfe has said he wants to write realistic novels that chronicle our times the way Charles Dickens captured the 19th century. U.S. readers showed their approval of Dickens by waiting in long lines for hours to attend his lectures and readings. In the 20th century, the sizable first printing of Wolfe's new book suggests there are at least 1.2 million readers waiting to purchase A Man in Full, the latest conventional novel about lives we can understand. LUANNE FEIK Greenville...
...PREPARED, PART 11 If the only historical artifacts of the 20th century were the 11 Boy Scout handbooks--issued from 1910 to last week--it would be remembered as an era in which the square knot retained its central importance. Chivalry, woodcraft and "duck-on-a-rock," on the other hand, made way for low-impact camping, Internet etiquette and self-defense from sexual abuse. The new book is printed in color on recycled paper, and it, alas, no longer offers such wise saws as "all trainers know that smoking is bad for the wind...
Inevitably, much of the heavy baggage that readers will schlep across the bridge into the 21st century will be the large-format, illustrated histories of the 20th. The bridge is not yet ready for traffic, but two such volumes are now crowding the toll gates. One is The Century (Doubleday; 606 pages; $60) by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster; the other, The American Century (Knopf; 710 pages; $50) by Harold Evans. The books are distinctly different, but each has much to recommend it, not least because Jennings, a Canadian national, and British-born Evans, now a U.S. citizen, view their...
American Century begins with the U.S. centennial in 1889 and ends roughly 100 years later, so it is not, strictly speaking, a review of the 20th century but a "selective newsreel." Here, Evans says, is the story of how the American people "sustained Western civilization by acts of courage, generosity and vision unparalleled in the history...