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Beevor also gives considerable weight - two-thirds of the book - to the bloody fighting that took place in the weeks following D-day. Bad as the beach landings were, there was even worse to come...
...little playful about Ludovic Kennedy, a broadcaster and writer of high seriousness, who died Oct. 18 at 89. A Briton of aristocratic lineage, Kennedy was an advocate of foxhunting and showed something of that merciless instinct in his investigative journalism, which he devoted to exposing miscarriages of justice. His book 10 Rillington Place inspired the posthumous pardon of Timothy Evans, a young Englishman wrongly executed for murder in 1950, and hastened Britain's abolition of the death penalty. The Airman and the Carpenter, Kennedy's exploration of the kidnapping and killing of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby, failed to achieve...
...Raiders" before becoming a corporate lawyer. But it was as a banker--at First Boston, then at the boutique firm he founded, Wasserstein Perella, and finally as CEO of Lazard--that he made his mark. Wasserstein presided over the rise of the "Big Deal" (the title of a book he published in 1997), dreamed up takeover tactics like the Pac-Man defense and was sought by CEOs for his creative ideas on offense and defense alike...
...Nader’s speech was not only a promotion for his new book. He used “‘Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!’” as both a call to today’s law students and as a means of discussing some of the larger leftist ideas with which he has long been associated...
Asked whether he will read Nader’s new book, Altemose was unsure...