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...says Brooks Thomas, president of Harper & Row. "We think it will be an extremely important book. There are a lot of people out there who are extremely curious about David Stockman. It's going to be very candid because he is very candid...
...Moscow two weeks before with Secretary of State George Shultz, and Shultz had passed along to Reagan a vivid description of the Kremlin leader in action: assertive, dynamic, very opinionated and not easily swayed by eloquent rhetoric. Nonetheless, Shultz had counseled, Gorbachev was a good listener, and extremely curious to learn more about the mind-sets of his Western adversaries...
...Reagan chatting informally with Gorbachev in front of a blazing fire. The Geneva encounter also provided Reagan's debut on Soviet television, which carried the summit's closing ceremonies in full as well as uncensored coverage of Gorbachev's press conference. In Moscow, television stores quickly filled with passersby curious to get a look at Reagan in action...
...advantage over the real thing. Facts that are inaccessible to scholarship may simply be invented. On the other hand, a story of a made-up person can hardly rely on the fame or noteworthiness of its subject to attract and hold readers. So the writer who takes up this curious, hybrid genre assumes a mixed blessing: the freedom to fabricate reality in service of a goal that many may find inconsequential because it is not true. In his eleventh novel, Canadian Author Robertson Davies tackles precisely this problem and turns it into a triumph. What's Bred in the Bone...
...admit. Dwayne Andreas, chairman of Archer Daniels Midland Co. (a giant U.S. corporation dealing in farm produce) and a frequent visitor to China, journeyed to Moscow in 1984 and had a two-hour private talk with Gorbachev, who was then still in charge of Soviet agriculture. "He was very curious about what I told him concerning the reforms," Andreas recalls. "He particularly wanted to hear how China's joint-venture system with foreign companies worked...