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...moved by "Walk Through Darkness" by David Anthony Durham (Doubleday: May), giving it a starred review. "Powerfully written and emotionally devastating, this new novel by Durham ('Gabriel's Story') tells the parallel tales of two men in antebellum America: William, a young fugitive slave, and Morrison, a white man hired to track him down.? In the thrilling climax, Morrison reveals an unexpected tie that binds him to William and makes a gesture that he hopes will redeem his sins. Durham's writing is forceful and full of startling imagery as he testifies to the courage (and sometimes the ambivalence...
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Some answers spring to mind: massive air power and an alliance with local forces exploiting the Afghans' disenchantment with the Taliban's cruel excesses. But a new book - Carnage and Culture by Victor David Hanson (Doubleday; 492 pages) published a month before the Sept. 11 atrocity - suggests a more fundamental reason: a facility for swift wars of annihilation that Westerners began acquiring in the valleys of Greece 2,800 years...
...Some answers spring to mind: massive air power and an alliance with local forces exploiting the Afghans' disenchantment with the Taliban's cruel excesses. But a new book?Carnage and Culture by Victor David Hanson (Doubleday; 492 pages) published a month before the Sept. 11 atrocity?suggests a more fundamental reason: a facility for swift wars of annihilation that Westerners began acquiring in the valleys of Greece 2,800 years...
...STILL BILL: According to Kirkus, "The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton" by Joe Klein, the author of "Primary Colors" (Doubleday; March 5), is "a supremely fascinating look at a 'serious, substantive presidency.' No journalist is better matched to this subject than Klein, and his analysis deserves the wide attention it's bound...