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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These dramatic exits and entrances are described in America Revised (Little, Brown; $9.95), a heavily researched book due out this fall. Its author, Frances FitzGerald, 38, examines America's view of itself as reflected in school history texts going back more than a century. Her conclusion: the once familiar tapestry of American history, long Waspish, pious and upbeat, has been ripped apart and converted into a glum, pluralistic patchwork. America and its view of the past are now changing so rapidly that few American schoolchildren in the future will share any common attitude toward their country's history...
...Writer promises the incredible with the suggestion that Anne Frank is alive and working at Harvard's library. But Roth steps back from the inviting brink of fantasy. He retreats, in fact, to the drab reality of the 1950s, the time of his own spectacular debut as the author of Goodbye, Columbus. The new book retains the look, if not the actual furniture, of autobiography. Goodbye, Columbus is called Higher Education; its author is Nathan Zuckerman who, like Roth, was raised in a middle-class Jewish section of Newark. His story is based on a family embarrassment, a tale...
...humor. It is funny and embarrassing at the same time, a God-forbidden break in decorum that allows the anarchic spirit out for a breath of air. Roth has always excelled at this, and if the reader is offended, The Ghost Writer strongly suggests that it is not the author's problem.-R.Z. Sheppard
...Author Maas' novel is a comedy of terrors that is all the more absorbing because of the methods used by both sides: the law bending the law, the mob making a farce of it. The area's top don, whom Wainwright is out to get despite his non-involvement in the case, roves free as a boccie ball. King Kong, among others, is appropriately retired by his own associates. Amazingly, Richie Flynn comes out a little wealthier and healthier, though back to selling booze...
...direct result of what evolved during that time." To his own surprise, Dallek's newly published F.D.R. and American Foreign Policy, 1932-45, has sold, instead of a few volumes to scholars as might have been expected, 10,000 copies in three months. Says the author: "It's a hot topic...