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While Tom parlays a bright lab notion into a megafortune and toys with entering presidential politics, his little family remains adrift. Mary, in a singular--and unlikely--act of daring, downsizes the controls of an old truck and teaches her daughter Jane, now 10, how to drive it, an effort that takes months. Finally, however, the terrified kid manages to tool across the mountains--howling Hiawatha as she goes--to visit her father. Though Owens makes a pro forma denial of paternity, he actually sends for Jane's mother and salts the pair away in a nearby cabin. Now they...
Like many of the junk-bond wire walkers of the 1980s, Reg Lewis was so obsessed with "doing another Beatrice" that he left the company's core operations adrift. Jean Fugett, a former pro footballer who was Reg's half brother and his handpicked successor, continued the hunt for deals. In the meantime Beatrice was hit by a roiling European recession in 1992 and a rapid erosion of market share, profits and cash. In the middle of this tumult, Fugett hatched a takeover bid for the Baltimore Orioles baseball team. With Beatrice's big shareholders in revolt, Lewis made...
...Cold War means that America has been robbed of much of what was its governing rationale for more than 40 years. In matters at home and abroad, we still feel adrift and continue to search for a sense of national purpose...
While the Communists dream of power, those who wield it appear adrift, as a fin-de-regime cloud settles over the Kremlin and the maneuvering for power within intensifies. At least two members of the new Yeltsin team, Lebed and Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin, have obvious presidential ambitions and little love for each other. Lebed's aides in fact privately hint that Chernomyrdin will be a prime target of their planned anticorruption campaign. Both, however, are deeply wary of Anatoli Chubais, the new chief of the presidential staff. An ambitious, tough-minded proponent of privatization, Chubais in turn shares with...
...supporting characters are less fully developed but no less perversely compelling. Ronet as the monstrous Philipe is the model of the Ugly American, throwing around money, speaking loudly, insulting everyone around him. His knife-in-the-back treatment of Tom-- he sets Tom adrift on a dinghy, embarrasses him by making him seem ill-bred, makes him steer the boat while he has sex with Marg-- makes him hard to like by any standards. The hapless Marg is wholly pitiable, toting around a guitar to which she croons mercilessly, plotting out her book on Fra Angelica, becoming a pawn...