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...most remarkable of that reporting and writing has been collected in a two-volume compendium called Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1969 and 1969-1975, published last month (Library of America; $35 per volume). To read from the beginning (the TIME story in 1959) to the war's end (Malcolm Browne's account in the New York Times of the fall of Saigon) is to relive the war in all its agony, heroism and, finally, failure...
Gingrich's ambitions, it turned out, were even vaster than those suggested by his five-page prospectus. A couple of years later, the House Ethics Committee released an appendix to its report on the Speaker's various ethics problems. The appendix was an amazing compendium of Gingrich's notes, speech drafts, memos and correspondence--a glimpse into the soul of Newtworld's architect during his private moments. It included, among much else, a handwritten note by Gingrich from December 1992. "Gingrich--primary mission," it read in part. "Advocate of civilization. Definer of civilization. Teacher of the rules of civilization...Leader...
...found on newsstands in Milwaukee, Wis., Chicago and Denver, as well as in Madison) and claims 200,000 readers on the Internet www.theonion.com) it will be sold in Borders and Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide starting this week. Early next year Crown will publish Our Dumb Century, a compendium of mock front pages from editions of the Onion that, of course, never existed (JOHNSON VOWS TO HONOR KENNEDY'S MEMORY BY TAKING PLUMP YOUNG MISTRESS). And Dikkers says the Onion is talking with one of the networks--he won't say which--to do a special based on the book next...
...barbecue from the mayor of Arlington, Texas; 10 lbs. of sausage and tickets to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, among other items, from the mayor of Cleveland, Ohio; and fish tacos, software and a surfboard from the mayor of San Diego. Here's a compendium of wagers that leaders have made over the years...
...King's tense relationships with John and Robert Kennedy. Nor is there a real discussion of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's sustained campaign against King, which ranged from wiretapping and character assassination to an attempt to induce him to commit suicide. The book does provide an easily digested compendium of King's eloquent speeches that may entice readers to learn more about his legacy. But as an autobiography, it is a mere imitation of life...