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A descendant of Frontiersman Jim Bowie, who struck out swinging at the Alamo, Kuhn is not exactly a buckskin man or most people's idea of a romantic. Standing 6 ft. 5 in., he was never much of an athlete, a "lousy ballplayer" by his own reckoning, better suited...
But slang cannot live forever on the past, no matter how magnificent it may have been. Slang needs to be new. Its life is brief, intense and slightly disreputable, like adolescence. Soon it either settles down and goes into the family business of the language (like taxi and cello and...
In many ways this book seems to develop Oates last novel, Bellefleur, another family chronicle which mixed the fantastic with the in a romantic setting. The fully realized vision of what was attempted in that novel however presents itself clearly here. In addition to fleshing out more detailed and sympathetic...
During his campaign for the presidency, Ronald Reagan repeatedly protested that in pursuing a policy of rapprochement with Communist China, the U.S. was callously selling out its old ally Taiwan. He vowed that if elected he would reverse that trend and strengthen relations with the island republic. But last week...
Robert Bates, Manning is the professional descendant of David Homer Bates, whose operators scribbled out Civil War battle reports from Morse code rattling Abraham over the telegraph lines. Bates often handed the war news to Abraham Lincoln on his melancholy evening visits to the office next to the White House...