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Shrinking dividend yields. Soaring price-to-earnings ratios. Bloated book values. Today that's so much hooey. The Dow is about to triple, argues a soon-to-be-released tract for our times--Dow 36,000 by journalist James Glassman and economist Kevin Hassett...
THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD As far as you're concerned, you're successfully juggling work and family roles and have your priorities in place. But what do your kids think? A new book by Ellen Galinsky of the Families and Work Institute looks at how kids assess their parents' efforts to have it all. The book, Ask the Children: What America's Children Really Think About Working Parents, which comes out next month, shows that children keenly feel their parents' level of satisfaction or discontent in balancing work and family and reflect it in their own attitudes...
...crowded shelf of political autobiographies, John McCain's new book, Faith of My Fathers (Random House; 349 pages; $25), stands out in at least one way: it ends when the hero is only 36. It's not surprising that the Republican presidential hopeful would want to end the story there, with his release from a Vietnamese POW camp after 5 1/2 years of captivity. His Vietnam saga is, to say the least, riveting: try to imagine being strung up by your broken arms, beaten senseless by your captors and, then, when they offer you the chance to go home, saying...
Faith of My Fathers is ostensibly a three-generation family memoir, the story not just of McCain but also of his father and grandfather, both of whom were four-star admirals. But McCain is the subject. Co-written by Mark Salter, the Senator's longtime aide, the book portrays a rebellious youth who reveres his family's military tradition but chafes against authority. As a child, McCain displays a petulance that leads him, when angry, to hold his breath until he blacks out. As a student, McCain recounts, "I grew more determined to assert my crude individualism." At the Naval...
Like so much of military literature, from the Iliad on, the book shows how adversity breeds character and replaces selfishness with esprit de corps. Even now, McCain, 63, seems unable to forgive himself for his "failure" to resist longer before signing a confession, declaring himself a "black criminal." "In prison," he writes, "where my cherished independence was mocked and assaulted, I found my self-respect in a shared fidelity to my country...