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It was quite a myth while it lasted. In his 15 years as Ghana's Prime Minister, Founding Father, President, Commander in Chief and Osagyefo (Redeemer), Francis Nwia Kofie Kwame Nkrumah, son of a village goldsmith, had striven with some success to make himself all but synonymous with God...
During the war, Lacouture twice met Ho Chi Minh (whom he calls "a shrewd comedian") and subsequently wrote the biography of this "pictureque and peculiar personality." When Ho dies Lacouture expects a bitter power struggle among his four lieutenants.
If and when DeGaulle dies, France will face a similar power shake-up. Lacouture can hardly wait. "The regime is out of purpose; the time for heroes is over, the time for classic democracy has come." He voted for Metternand in the recent election, and doesn't suppress his sense...
His cigars are the best. When he sensed the shift of politics in Cuba, he bought 3,000 of his favorite Upmann Montecristos at 75é apiece, and had them stored in the humidor in Manhattan's "21" Club, from which he draws, in miserly fashion, enough for two or three...
"Ireland," said George Moore, "is a fatal disease." Author John McGahern gloomily agrees. In The Barracks, a first novel of keening intensity, he called the disease cancer and described how a woman dies of it in a squalid Irish village. In The Dark, his second novel, he calls the disease...