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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, it is an interesting and provocative set of considerations which Fabricating Lives offers. Just as the vast panorama of American experience represented in the lives of autobiographers traces at once a personal--and a societal--odyssey, so does the book attempt a scope of analysis impressive only for the brashness...

Author: By Susan B. Class, | Title: Lost in Pretension | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

Golenbock's year-long investigation of the Wolfpack has left him jaded and furious with the corrupt N.C. State hoops program, and he vents his anger in his introduction--an attack on the materialistic, win-at-all-costs American value system that projects crack dealers and inside traders as the heroes of the 1980s...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Scandals Off the Court With Jim Valvano's N.C. State | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

Golenbock sees Personal Fouls as a quintessentially American tale of innocence, greed and power abuse. He offers two plans for revamping collegiate athletics--one cynical, one idealistic...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Scandals Off the Court With Jim Valvano's N.C. State | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

WHEN Tom Clancy published his first techno-thriller about a Soviet submarine and the American intelligence network, Pentagon officials said he must have had inside information to offer readers such precise descriptions of military tactics and technology...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Uncanny Realism | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

...latest effort, Clear and Present Danger, seems realistic not because of its description, but because of its plot--which anticipates with frightening accuracy exactly how the South American drug war has unfolded in recent months...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Uncanny Realism | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

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