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...RETURN OF LITTLE BIG MAN By Thomas Berger Little, Brown...
...suppose you happen to stumble across Wyatt Earp, Annie Oakley and even Queen Victoria, with whom you share a few drinks and swap stories and. This may sound like the plot for Bill and Ted's Excellent Wild West Adventure, but it is actually the basic premise of Thomas Berger's novel The Return of Little Big Man, which manages to pull off the often difficult task of effortlessly and effectively mingling fiction with history. The Return of Little Big Man is the continuation of the thoroughly entertaining story of Jack Crabb, also known as Little Big Man, an orphan...
Novelist Thomas Berger responds to continuing fascination with the American West by distilling its sprawling, general history into the essence of this well-knit chronicle, Berger should be commended for his painstaking research, which allows him, through our personal tour-guide Jack, to make a complicated and convoluted history seem both very straightforward and very real; distant and lionized legends like Wild Bill Hickok become poignantly human through Jack's unique perspective and experience. In his novel The Return of little Big Man, Thomas Berger proves himself to be a master of the storytelling craft through an engaging narrative that...
...believe we acted swiftly," insists National Security Adviser Sandy Berger. "I reject the notion there was any dragging of feet." That also sounded a bit odd, coming from an official who was first briefed on the likelihood of espionage at Los Alamos three years ago. Nor was this the first case of Chinese snooping at U.S. weapons labs. During the 1970s and again in the '80s, Taiwanese-born American scientists delivered to China the secrets of, first, the neutron bomb and then laser technology...
...shocker is not that China spies but that the U.S. took such a leisurely approach to countering China's successes. In early 1996 Berger was told about the case and encouraged the FBI to investigate, but he took no steps to increase security at Los Alamos. ("I get similar briefings once a month," shrugs a White House official.) Only in July 1997, after another briefing on laxity at the labs, did Berger tell Clinton. Berger assigned an interagency group to draft tougher security rules for the labs; Clinton signed them in February 1998. The span of six months from briefing...