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...This "Bringer of Light" led his people through decades of fighting against three major powers to secure independence for this country...
...Perlman's Ordeal (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 329 pages; $24), novelist Brooks Hansen has some serious fun imagining the case of Sylvie Blum, a.k.a. Nina, the pubescent bringer of confusion and disarray into the physician's otherwise detached and antiseptic existence. As a hypnotherapist, Perlman is a hands-off healer. As a closet onanist, he is a hands-on pioneer of safe...
...Vietnam--his first return home in three decades--he urged his disciples to fight both the Japanese and the French. There, in a remote camp, he founded the Viet Minh, an acronym for the Vietnam Independence League, from which he derived his nom de guerre, Ho Chi Minh--roughly "Bringer of Light...
...push hard for civil rights legislation. Johnson, a public relations catastrophe, did the right thing by ramming through the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The war, of course, would swallow his presidency and all other issues. That point is powerfully dramatized by the gathering of revolutionizing forces: television, the bringer of violence to the breakfast table; the start of the assassinations that would claim many of the book's antagonists; the spread of rights protest into the indulged yawps of the 1960s youth rebellion; and later, the furious dissent of the antiwar movement...
...there's no Santa Claus, but it turns out there is that other much-wished-for bringer of good cheer, the anonymous benefactor. Over the past 15 years, CHARLES FEENEY has secretly given away $600 million and put an additional $3.5 billion into his two charities so that it can be proffered later. Only now has he confessed to his good deeds. He did it because he's sold the chain of duty-free shops that made all the money, and is facing a lawsuit in which his munificence would be revealed anyway. So furtive has Feeney been about...