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...principles are bartered for profit. There is nothing in Zionism that hints at racism. To the contrary, many non-Jews, blacks among them, are ardent Zionists. It is the Arabs who call blacks abeed, which means slaves. It is the Arabs who encouraged the pogrom that killed my cousin and hundreds of other Iraqi Jews, and all the oil in the world will not wash that fact away...
...detailed in by far the most fascinating section of the biography. Lewis makes use of some almost painfully revealing source material on their affair, including the private diary Wharton addressed to Fullerton and the love poems he inspired her to write, as well as correspondence from his jealous cousin and fiancee, Katherine Fullerton. Skillfully integrating the poems and journal entries with his text, Lewis illumines both the depth and power of Wharton's feelings for Fullerton and her yearning to escape the solitude that afflicted her before she met him. Initially unsure of his reaction to her, Wharton writes...
...exact figures are hard to come by, the general trend is nonetheless apparent. My cousin's ticket came from her father's friend, a businessman who once pitched minor league ball and now throws batting practice for the Red Sox before gametime. Almost everyone at the first game of the Series had some similar story of at least vague ties to VIP's. A friend of mine got his ticket from a friend of his who had an acquaintance in the Fly Club, to which several tickets had been donated by an Fly alumnus who had once owned part...
...Russians themselves apparently suspected since they were reluctant to grant him a visa despite his "radar secrets." The American official to whom he renounced his citizenship in Moscow, the people who received him when he returned to the U.S., his associates in Dallas and New Orleans, and even his cousin can be traced to the CIA. Most crucially, Oswald travelled to Mexico City attempting to obtain a Cuban visa during precisely the two months in the summer of 1963 when Howard Hunt was CIA station chief there...
Patty's favorite cousin, William Randolph Hearst III, said that "I think she has probably undergone some sort of political change, but I don't think that being a radical feminist and being a responsible citizen are automatically irreconcilable...