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Kwitny, a Wall Street Journal reporter and author of Endless Enemies, finds the beginings of the Nugan Hand story in documents that establish the CIA's involvement with Chinese Nationist forces in the 1950s. During the war, according to official records Kwitny quotes, the CIA smuggled drugs to finance the forces of Chiang Kai-shek forces. "With the kind of people [CIA operatives] were dealing with up there, the whole economy was opium," according to John J. O'Neill, the Far East regional director of the Drug Enforcement Administration. "I have no doubt that Air America was used to transport...
...Soviet Union is increasingly opening its ears to revisionist history about the Stalinist regime, Soviet author Anatoly Rybakov told a crowd of 200 people at the Kennedy School Forum last night...
Americans, it may be, now need a leader to give them a sense of their coherence and their role in the world. "In those rare moments when the American people feel that the direction of their country is going to affect their private lives," says the historian and author Doris Kearns Goodwin, "they are engaged at a far deeper level." They need to reinvent themselves once again on a planet that has enormously changed in just a few years...
...This is the decade of plutography," says Tom Wolfe, author of such fireproof phrases as "radical chic" to describe affluent activists of the '60s and "the Me decade" to define the narcissistic '70s. Plutography is to money what pornography is to sex, explains the 56-year-old pioneer of the New Journalism, emphasizing that "today it is impossible to be too ostentatious." In Manhattan, where Wolfe and his wife, daughter and son occupy a four-story town house in the coveted East 60s, he notes that one of the latest examples of conspicuous display is the stretch limousines lined...
...first appeared in Rolling Stone four years ago and ran in 27 installments. Since then, Wolfe has thoroughly rewritten it. The crucial change was to make the leading character a Wall Street broker (pre Black Monday) instead of a writer. "Writers are not much affected by scandal," says the author, "but bond salesmen can be ruined." Moreover, the alteration meant that Wolfe had to study the breed in its habitat, to examine its plumage, to listen to the roar of "well-educated young white men baying for money." In short, New Journalism shares much with the traditional novel of manners...