Word: book-of-the-month
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With the Republicans in Washington. Schlesinger turned in earnest to his massive Age of Roosevelt. He produced three volumes in four years: The Crisis of the Old Order (1957); The Coming of the New Deal (1958); The Politics of Upheaval (1960). All were favorably reviewed, all were Book-of-the-Month choices-and all were rough sledding. "It's much harder than writing history that's long past," he said. "For Jackson, the source material was limited and all the witnesses were dead. There was no one to pop up and say, 'You were wrong...
CUNNING AS A FOX by Kyle Hunt. 209 pages. Macmillan. $3.95. British Crimewriter John Creasey is a one-man Book-of-the-Month Club. Since 1931, under his own name and a dozen pseudonyms of wonderful ordinariness,* he has managed to write nearly 500 books. To his long list of heroes-Gideon of the Yard, The Toff, Handsome West-Creasey here adds his first new one in ten years. He is Dr. Emmanuel ("Manny") Cellini, psychiatrist first, detective second, who in this adventure is rung in to help not the bobbies but the criminal's neurotic parents. For them...
...most proficient, their writing takes the step beyond complaint to scorn; beyond alienation to the assertion of the individual; beyond the" absurd to laughter at absurdity. At its worst, their laughter can be shrill, silly, or self-indulgent. It has yet to blow down Jericho, let alone the Book-of-the-Month Club. For the best of the new breed, writers like Barth and Donleavy, it is the work still in their typewriters that will determine their ultimate standing. Meanwhile they are delighting many a reader who can unsettle down with a good book...
Durham School, which numbers no Zen adepts among its alumni, is the stern focus of many of the 17 stories that comprise James Gould Cozzens' latest book-his first in seven years and a Book-of-the-Month Club choice for August. The school, rather than the un-Salingerian types who attend it, is the real hero, and Cozzens deeply approves of the headmaster's speech above (which is delivered to a character named Smith...
Each biography seems tailored to a specific audience. Robert (The Terrorists, Forever China) Payne, a prolific as well as a catholic writer, has produced a Book-of-the-Month selection aimed at romantics. Stefan Possony, political studies director at Stanford's Hoover Institution, will appeal most obviously to believers in the conspiratorial view of history, since his research comes largely from police and foreign office files, ranging from Japan to France, and covering mostly Lenin's life as a fugitive conspirator...