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...knows," a young Harry Truman wrote to his future wife Bess, "maybe I'll be like Cincinnatus and be elected constable someday." The ideal of the noble citizen reluctantly laying down his plow to spend a few years cleaning up his government is deeply appealing to most Americans, especially now during this open season on professional politicians. Such sentiments account for the burst of enthusiasm greeting Ross Perot and for the best-sellerdom that inevitably awaits David McCullough's loving and richly detailed megabiography of Truman...
Industry insiders speculated that Joni Evans, 48, had been fired because of disappointing sales for several recent Random House books, among them Donald Trump's Surviving at the Top and Shana Alexander's biography of Bess Myerson, When She Was Bad. The principals denied that scenario: Random House expects to have "a record year in profits" Vitale said, with 18 best sellers. Friends say Evans felt crushed under the administrative responsibilities of her job and wanted to return to editing. She not only will continue at Random House but will have the cachet of her own imprint...
Jury selection for her trial on racketeering and other charges carrying up to 50 years in prison started last week in the same courtroom that saw the bravura performances of Leona Helmsley and Bess Myerson. For sheer Wagnerian greed, the tale of Imelda could put the Hotel Queen to shame. Jurors will have to decide whether a wife always knows what her husband is up to -- in this case, deposed President Ferdinand Marcos, who died last September. "The Marcoses were masters of deception," said prosecutors. "They elevated three- card monte ((a form of shell game)) to an art form." Scoffed...
...marriages and numerous affairs. That picture is so convincing that Myerson's willingness to hire Judge Gabel's nearly unemployable daughter as a way to induce Gabel to lower Capasso's alimony payments makes an odd kind of sense. Capasso, a sewer contractor from Queens, had nothing to offer Bess but limousines, furs and financial security. But for someone as insecure as Myerson, he was an emotional...
Philip Roth's new novel Deception is an eavesdropper's fantasy. -- Shana Alexander's When She Was Bad recounts Bess Myerson's fall from grace...