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...however, and so Washington issued a declaration naming the last Thursday in November as something that would later always be special in American life. The day was "to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be ... rendering ... humble thanks for [the] conclusion of the late war, for the great degree of tranquillity, union and plenty, which we have since enjoyed...
...success. Many of the young researcher's colleagues condemned her way of reaching conclusions from observed evidence, which Mead called "disciplined subjectivity," and the quasi-novelistic style in which the book was written. But students snapped it up, partly because its ideas interested them, often because, as the author briskly explained, "I wrote it in English...
...happen in our era of sequels: Deep Throat II. This time, he is a mysterious figure-or figures-leaking information about the U.S. Supreme Court. Who is the reporter scribbling down the incriminating details? Naturally, Bob Woodward, co-author with Carl Bernstein of The Final Days. Woodward and his new partner, fellow Washington Post Reporter Scott Armstrong, are behind locked doors, working on a book about the Warren Burger Court. Excerpts will appear early next year, and anticipation at the Post is high. Says one editor: "The Supreme Court is the last secret institution in Washington...
...Author Israel, a Manhattan publishing executive who lived for four years in Paris, writes intimately and amusingly about France, its people and institutions. Where else would you learn that the national anti-narc bureau is called the Central Office for the Repression of the Illicit Traffic of Stupefiers...
...author of that authentic fake, the "autobiography" of Howard Hughes, prolific Writer Clifford Irving can be relied upon for verisimilitude. Here Irving teams with entertaining Novelist Herbert Burkholz (Mulligan's Seed) to write a suavely persuasive, anti-Establishment thriller with the bitter aftertaste of Campari and vodka...