Word: businessman
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WILFRED BURCHETT does not look like a radical journalist. In fact, he looks more like a conservative businessman. But when he opens an interview by pointing to a nearby poster of Ho Chi Minh and says, "Ah, my good friend," it becomes easier to recognize in him the man who has been covering revolutionary movements sympathetically since the late...
Some reasons for this dread can be found in the editors' bridging commentary. As the youngest daughter of a successful Weston, Mass. businessman, Anne believed she had been neglected and unloved by her father. "Did I ever tell you about Elizabeth?" she writes to a friend many years later. "She's manic-Anne and sometimes sexy-Anne. You've seen her. But perhaps didn't know her name. My father called me 'a-little-bitch.' I thought he meant my name was Elizabeth...
Such criticism is especially stinging to an Administration that contains an arsenal of economic brainpower. No fewer than five Ph.D.s in economics hold Cabinet-level posts. The President himself, as an ex-engineer and farmer-businessman, is comfortable with the charts and graphs that are the raw material of economic policymaking. Says one Council of Economic Advisers staffer: "Unlike so many lawyers in government, the President is used to thinking in numbers...
...though it were an independent force, growing without any influence from the men who in fact produced it. But to ignore an inventor as part of a larger force is no more valid than ignoring a president because his actions are largely determined by political forces or ignoring a businessman because his ways are mainly set by laws of economics...
Edison's life does entail some inherently interesting history--young Tom growing up in the Midwest during the Civil War, selling newspapers and printing one of his own; Edison the insomniac telegraphist; Edison the eccentric inventor; Edison the occasional businessman. But Clark's book is only interesting to the extent that Edison's life was interesting. Thoughtful analysis is largely left behind after the first half dozen pages, and the book becomes a string of information bits, arranged loosely in chronological order. The only logic connecting the information presented is the immediately obvious: what happened when. Clark rarely steps back...