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Richard Reeves, author of the 1993 study, President Kennedy: Profile of Power, has said this: "The final judgment of a leader of democracy [is] whether he or she brings out the best or the worst of the people. On that score, I rate JFK a great leader...
Gelbspan, the author of a forthcoming book on global warming, said the problem has public health implications that have been largely ignored by the media...
Residents have included composer Aaron Copland, Princess Grace of Monaco, author James A. Michener, former secretary of defense Robert McNamara and newscasters Dan Rather and Walter Cronkhite...
...surprise that Martin Cruz Smith, author of the Soviet-era Russian cop novel Gorky Park, has written the most interesting and richly textured crime story of the season. What is unexpected about Rose (Random House; 364 pages; $25) is its setting: not the disorder of present-day Russia but the rigidly stratified society of a Welsh coal-mining town toward the end of the 19th century. As must be true in a period thriller, the setting drives the plot and makes the crime--in this case, the disappearance and presumed murder of a young and idealistic clergyman--seem inevitable...
...seemed to whisper, Beware religion. Not even a strictly professional observer could miss the spiritual vibrations that emanated from those ancient walls and shrines, infecting every aspect of social and political life. In her immensely erudite chronicle Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths (Knopf; 427 pages; $30), Karen Armstrong, British author of the best-selling A History of God, delineates how, quite literally, the stones of Jerusalem came to embody the deepest faith and identity of the three religions of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam. In so doing, even in a determinedly nonpolemical book, she arrives at some suggestive ideas about...