Word: books
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other stories pointed up Le Monde's wider beat. Marshal Lin Piao, "the man who launched the little red book," was profiled. An anonymous report from Athens dissected the problems of the Greek junta: "The toughest rivals which the regime will have to face may come from within the military establishment itself-in spite of the elimination of several hundred officers and the promotion of many others...
Almost as common as a taxi driver's conviction that his experiences would make a terrific book is the delusion that one's fascinating family would make a colorful chronicle. John H. Davis, 39, who has been working on educational projects for the past ten years, first thought that he had a novel in the shirtsleeves-to-Social Register saga of his forebears and contemporaries, the Bouviers. When a cousin named Jacqueline became America's First Lady and then a fabulous folk heroine, it was immediately obvious to the highly motivated men of the book business that...
They are neither. As a result, the book is engorged with minutiae that might better have been left in the filing cabinet. Much of it is Dun & Bradstreet; the Bouviers' commonest denominator seems to have been a preoccupation with getting and spending. Getter No. 1 was Michel, a cabinetmaker from the Rhone Valley, who fled France after Waterloo to settle in Philadelphia and accumulate a tidy fortune in real estate. Getter No. 2 was one of his sons, Michel Charles. With his brother John, he bought seats on the New York Stock Exchange right after its reorganization...
...Sheik. Prominent among Bouvier spenders was John Vernou Bouvier III, whose advent in the Bouvier story signals the start of those sections of the book that have induced most of its buyers to shell out their $10. Jack Bouvier was the father of two daughters, Jacqueline...
...hear Author Joseph G. Rosa tell it, though, the debunkers have gone too far. A Western buff who lives in England, Rosa has written a well-informed and lively book that tries to make a balanced revaluation of the six-gunslinger in the making of America. Rosa ends by according him a special status, halfway between John Bunyan and outright bum, as a marked-down culture hero who created for his epic era a flawed but salient image of the male...