Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alan Gilbert '65, an official of the Harvard Chapter of the May Second Movement
...interview with Johnson, but he had ready access to the men around him, and this seems to have been enough-perhaps because there is so much about Johnson to explain that the flashes of insight in this book seem exceptional. At any rate, White has somehow compiled a chapter-length portrait of Johnson, that is almost beyond question the best thing in print on this most baffling of subjects, even though it is not firsthand...
...there are passages of Johnson's behavior-his peculiar relations with the press, for example-that Mr. White cannot explain-and when it comes to Goldwater, the passages become chapters. When White shifts from the Democratic to the Republican campaign, he changes from insider to outsider. He examines Goldwater instead of trying, as he does with Nelson Rockefeller, to see through his eyes. "There is an almost irresistible temptation to tell the story of the debacle as comedy," he says of the Goldwater campaign, but he never tells us why this man who ran two brilliantly successful Senate campaigns...
...even if there were no Chapter 40, indeed if Magna Carta contained only a single chapter, its greatness would have been ensured by Chapter 39: "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land." In that brief statement lies the forerunner of "due process," habeas corpus, trial by jury, the limitation...
Genghis Khan is another chapter in the history of the world, as hacked out by some of the planet's best-paid specialists at turning mountains into molehills. This droll biography casts Omar Sharif as the greedy Mongol conqueror, and suggests that his greed was all for the good. In his youth, cruelly confined by his enemies to a doughnut-shaped yoke, the future Khan keeps his eye upon the whole of Asia, plus adjacent territories. He dreams idealistically not of sacking, plundering, pillaging and rape, but of a large barbarian Camelot in which every man will...