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...grand American families in books about the Kennedys and the Fords. In The Roosevelts: An American Saga (Simon and Schuster; 542 pages; $27.50), written by Collier with research help from Horowitz, Theodore is portrayed as the head of a dynasty. Never mind that his family and Franklin's were distant cousins connected mainly by Eleanor, who was Theodore's niece. Her father was Theodore's brother Elliott, a dandy who late in life was capable of consuming six bottles of liquor before lunch...
Collier's portraits of the two great Roosevelts and Eleanor seem canned, although his real focus is on their role as parents and the dispiriting effects of a famous childhood. Theodore's very presence could be overbearing; Franklin was distant. Eleanor resented her husband, and "the children grew up virtually without control," writes Collier...
...what emigration could inspire. The young artist -- Cole was the son of a small trader from Lancashire -- arrives in the aesthetically uncharted wilderness, where, self-taught, by dint of "natural vision," he begins to create a new, true and specifically American picturesqueness out of rocks, gorges, sunsets, trees and distant Indians. He is taken up by the plutocrats of his day, some with long patrician roots, like Stephen van Rensselaer III, America's biggest landlord, and others more recently arrived, like the grocery millionaire Luman Reed. Old money wanted to show that taste was not a monopoly of Europeans...
...Provided images of a strange pair of Hula Hoop-like rings around a distant exploded star -- a previously unknown phenomenon...
...crime evidence mounts; prosecution remains distant...