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Punishment at the Post. Part of the narrative's charm is that the old man did not consciously set out to recount history, but only to leave his descendants a straightforward personal account of all he saw and did. And that was considerable. One of Meriwether's earliest memories, for example, is of the massacre at Pigeon Roost, Kentucky, when Indian followers of Tecumseh slaughtered 24 white settlers. He was only eleven, but his father sent him off on horseback to warn the Kentucky countryside that the Indians were on the rampage. At 14, he rode 100 miles...
Albania & Albinos. Not that Schlesinger minds. As the heir to a proud historical tradition, he was encouraged from his earliest days to hold the mirror up to everything, past and present, and to declare his judgment of what he saw. His judgments were loud and clear and precociously decisive. Says a friend: "Arthur has always had to contend with an enormous coalition of the envious and the aggrieved-those who are jealous of his talents and those who have suffered from them...
...land passionately devoted to free enterprise, the U.S. has always been the best place for a man to make his million. Throughout its history-from the days of the earliest Virginia planters to the postwar bloom of electronics millionaires-the drive for fortune has been a shaping influence and a productive force. The fabled 19th century millionaires-John D. Rockefeller, Edward H. Harriman and Andrew Carnegie-all began poor. Despite their often controversial actions, they, like most American millionaires, basically enriched themselves by enriching a growing nation...
...four, recalled Lyndon, that he mailed his first letter-to his grandmother. "Larry O'Brien told me a few moments ago," he said archly, "that he is going out to find that letter and deliver it." Waxing philosophical, Johnson continued: "This little community represents to me the earliest recollections of the America that I knew when I was a little boy. It was a land of farms and ranches and people who depended on those farms and ranches for a living." Today, he hastened to add, "our task is to make our cities good places to live, expensive...
Kazantzakis discusses the growth of his earliest and deepest passions, the urge for freedom and the urge for sancity. He analyzes his successive commitments to the contradictory philosophies of Christ, Buddha, Lenin, and Nietzsche. And, in some of his most sonorous passages, Kazantzakis chronicles a battle of the soul that has echoes through works from the Bible to Herzog--the duel between flesh and spirit. Characteristically, Kazantzakis writes of this battle in the most expansive terms...