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...this age-old debate with remarkable vigor. Burns, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has long been fascinated by leaders, and much of his life's work has prepared him for writing Leadership. His biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Woodrow Wilson, and of two Kennedy brothers have won him wide acclaim. But Burns has been more than a dispassionate observer; in 1958 he ran for Congress, and he has haunted Democratic national conventions for the past two decades...
...from the rising national doubts about his competence. As Americans cheer his Camp David achievement, Jimmy Carter with luck and wisdom could be born again a second time in a way that could lift this nation as well as himself. Men in public service are nourished by justified public acclaim. Carter's time has at last come...
...argument can be made that The Band ranks among the finest rock-and-roll groups ever formed. Although they have not been overly prolific, they produced several outstanding studio albums--Music From Big Pink and The Band most notably--skeptics need only look at the almost unheard-of critical acclaim that welcomed those albums and much of their later work. The Band had it all--five immensely talented musicians and a sound that blended many of the mongrel elements that form the backbone of rock, and despite some personal problems (Danko was so strung out for two years, for example...
Solzehnitsyn won international acclaim following the publication of his first book, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," in 1962. His subsequent novels include "Cancer Ward," "The First Circle" and the recently completed Gulag Archipelago trilogy...
...when her first novel (Lolly Willowes) became a premier selection by the fledgling U.S. Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926, but she showed an enduring talent with her genteel, Victorian prose (The Museum of Cheats, The Flint Anchor). A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, she also won acclaim as a poet (Time Importuned), a translator (Marcel Proust on Art and Literature 1896-1919) and a biographer (T.H. White...