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...issue is a single chapter, excerpted in the April 25 issue of TIME, of the book Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness -- A Soviet Spymaster. Though Sudoplatov and his son Anatoli are listed as the authors, the book was actually put together by American journalists Jerrold Schecter, a former Moscow bureau chief for TIME, and his wife Leona, from 20 hours of taped interviews with Sudoplatov, together with his official writings for KGB archives and other documents gathered by his son. The spymaster, however, now 86, read and signed the written Russian-language version of the disputed chapter...
Ethnic studies is not about separatism, but all about informing our picture of the United States by examining its interactions with its residents of color. In elementary school we read big survey textbooks on American history, in which each chapter revolved around one of the 42 presidents. But "America" wasn't created by 42 white men. Some textbooks did discuss the participation of various ethnic groups, but always superficially...
...last chapter titled "Reflections on Self, Spirit and Social Change," Ogden suddenly widens her scope. All within a few pages, she addresses feminist backlash, mass media and power hierarchy and raises some interesting questions about the political implications of changing gender roles. Yet by this time, near the very end of the book, these topics on longer seem appropriate with the mood set from the beginning, a navel in high relief. Overall, the book does not fulfill its original stated mission, but reduces itself to an entertaining article on sexual hocus-pocus...
...mere mob. And without a timely, common cause, neither leader nor followers will affect history, for good or ill. Wills describes 16 people in 16 different fields, from Mary Baker Eddy (church) to Ross Perot (business), who have succeeded in directing followers to a common end. Each chapter includes a sketch of what Wills calls "antitypes" -- that is, would-be leaders who for one reason or another failed to truly lead...
Compared with such important works by Wills as Lincoln at Gettysburg or Nixon Agonistes, Certain Trumpets has an offhand quality; it resembles an actor's phoned-in performance. There are also moments when Wills strains mightily to make a case, notably in the chapter on Perot. Wills argues that Perot, who built Electronic Data Systems into a multibillion-dollar enterprise before peddling it to GM, improved on the theories of two corporate legends who made salesmanship a near science: John Henry Patterson of National Cash Register and Thomas Watson of IBM. Perhaps so, but even by Wills' narrow definition...