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...chapter became the book. Wilson had fascinated Freud since his discov ery that they were born in the same year-1856-and, more particularly, he blamed Wilson because his personal estate of $30,000 had dwindled away into nothing during the inflationary postwar period. Freud candidly confesses his bias in this book: "The figure of the American President, as it rose above the horizons of Europeans, was from the beginning unsympathetic to me, and this aversion increased the more severely we suffered from the consequences of his intrusion into our destiny...
...book was put together by David Solomon, whose qualifications are limited to the fact that he is a former editor at Esquire, Playboy and Metronome, and his bias is plainly evident. Smoking marihuana, he says flatly in his introduction, is not so harmful as cigarettes or alcohol, and should be legalized...
...time she was 20, she had taken a lover and given birth to an illegitimate son. Then began the long parade: short runs with a vast assortment of lovers, longer runs and growing fame on the stage. She was the queen in Victor Hugo's Ruy Bias, Phèdre in Racine's classic, and she donned trousers as Napoleon's hapless son, the Duc de Reichstadt, in Edmond Rostand's L'Aiglon. Kings mooned over her, and audiences wept torrents over her magnificent death scenes...
...most serious offense. What is more, Powell's practices as a committee chairman have been no different in principle from those of many of the other major committee heads in the House. Singling out Powell for punishment would, therefore, leave the Democrats wide open to the charge of racial bias...
...neither is a full-fledged L.B.J. fan. When they met with Editor Thomas in Washington in May, all three agreed that "Manchester had used bad judgment, even bad taste in places." They suggested a number of changes to the author-but not enough to balance the book's bias. For once, the Kennedys' early-warning system had failed...