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...fitful, yet comparatively benign?and even dull???expanse of the "Eisenhower Years" today evokes considerable nostalgia. Eisenhower presided over what many now regard as America's belle epoque. In considerable part, the harmony was illusory, but it is scarcely less cherished for that. Millions of Americans who mourned Ike's death last week grieved partly for themselves as well, for their loss of the more ordered, seemingly tranquil period that Eisenhower embodied...
...book can by no means be called dull???its portraiture of German life in town and country during the late sixties and seventies is faithful and exact?its description of a section of that international Grub Street on which nearly every writer of prominence in our day has earned difficult bread, while singularly lacking in bitterness is unflinchingly real...
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