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...Douglas Brinkley is director of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans
This month the ninth and 10th volumes in the 1 1/2-year-old series will appear: historian Douglas Brinkley's Rosa Parks and novelist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick's Herman Melville. Atlas' original notion--short biographies by great writers--may have been tinged with a little inspired hyperbole, but as general editor he has overseen the production of short biographies (roughly 200 pages each) by some very good writers indeed, including Garry Wills (on Saint Augustine), Larry McMurtry (on Crazy Horse) and Mary Gordon (on Joan of Arc). All the authors were paid advances from $50,000 to $100,000, and those...
...Brinkley is professor of history and director of the Eisenhower Center of American Studies at the University of New Orleans...
...report on the recently declassified Vietnam War documents [HISTORY, April 24], Douglas Brinkley described with some pathos the American agony over the war. He touched on American attitudes toward what must be a tremendous problem--how to deal with what the U.S. government did or did not do--during and after nearly 15 years of involvement in Vietnam. While the American people will surely come to their own reckoning, one cannot help wondering whether the Vietnamese will one day achieve justice. Perhaps the American soul could rest easier if the U.S. government acknowledged its sins--maybe even the crimes...
While considering Brinkley's thought, my eye wandered to the front page of Thursday's New York Times. There, splashed across three prominent columns in prime acreage above the fold, the Times presented this story: "GIULIANI TO SEEK SEPARATION FROM WIFE OF 16 YEARS: Tearful Hanover Says She Tried to Keep the Couple Together." Above the story ran two closeup color pictures, big as TV screens - one of New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani (looking ashen and hyperstressed, his face cropped tight from combover to chin, with a quote for a caption: "We've grown independent, we've grown more separate...