Word: books
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FOUR-GATED CITY, by Doris Lessing. In the final novel of her Children of Violence series, the author takes Heroine Martha Quest from World War II to the present. Then the meticulous, disturbing book proceeds into the future to demonstrate the author's extrasensory conviction that global disaster is at hand...
...polishing and editing, will be published. British Historian H. R. Trevor-Roper once said that Speer's would be the only Nazi memoirs worth reading, since he was the brightest of the group and the only man at Nurnberg who felt any sense of guilt. "I wrote this book primarily for the younger generation," Speer told TIME Correspondent Peter Range. "I intended it not only to portray the past but to warn about the future." Since his own six children would be affected by his renewed notoriety, he gave them veto rights over its publication. After reading the first...
Speer decided on the book when he was captured by the Allies. In Spandau, he wrote secretly in tight script on pieces of cardboard, tobacco paper, and even toilet tissue. A friendly jailer smuggled 1,400 pages of remembrances out for him. "I had all day to think in the garden," he recalls. "Then I could write every night until my hand just hurt too much." At Castle Wolfsbrunnenweg today, 36 filing cabinets hold paper scraps, letters, old files and 125 architect's sketches made by Hitler for the grand plan of Berlin...
...Pikes had been in the Holy Land since the previous Friday, and, as usual, the trip was part pleasure, part business and part quest. For four years, Pike had been working on a new book on the historical Jesus, and he had recently agreed to make a movie on the subject with TV Star David Frost. Pike had wanted to forage in Jerusalem bookstalls, search for new meanings in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and walk, said his wife, "where Jesus walked...
...year-old eldest son, James Jr., who shot himself in a New York hotel in 1966. Not long after that tragedy, Pike began involving himself in psychic research and spiritualism. His efforts to reach his dead son were unabashedly and painfully recorded in his most recent book, The Other Side, which he wrote with Diane Kennedy, later to be his third wife...