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...Thorn Lord). A big-time lawyer, Lord works in Trenton, lords it over a claque of intellectuals at home in Princeton. No mere egghead, he is a shrewd politician who rebuilt the Democratic Party statewide after the collapse of Jersey City's Boss Hague, was one of the earliest advocates of all-out registration drives. After Lord masterminded Bob Meyner's rise to the governor's mansion, the awed northern Jersey bosses acknowledged his political genius...
...Third Reich, Author William Shirer has undertaken to tell the entire Hitler story in one massive volume. A former reporter and newscaster, Shirer covered Germany and the Nazis from 1925 until the U.S. entered the war, and his bestselling Berlin Diary (TIME, June 23, 1941) was one of the earliest casebooks of Nazi practice. To his huge task Shirer brings only modest writing gifts, but he has an advantage that swamps all shortcomings: his material is horribly fascinating. He has done thorough research in captured documents, in books and in diaries. The result is a panoramic exposure of Naziism...
Parvenus & Lunatics. The earliest Romans, despite their reputation for solid, simple virtue, were "frippish" and "tinkled and gleamed with jewelry in every part of their bodies. . . If any of them did lead the simple life, it was for the same reason many of us have led it-they hadn't the money to do otherwise. Those who had. lived like lords." The lawgivers renowned for political genius were to "the Romans themselves a subject of hilarity and despair," and the empire "was run on a system of looting rendered merciful by corruption." The stalwart Roman soldiery took 121 years...
...breeze over the New Dealing Democratic incumbent. Congressman Jerry Voorhis. Nixon's headline-making investigations of the Communist conspiracy in Government and his unmasking of Alger Hiss catapulted him to national fame and a Senate seat in 1950. Two years later, as one of the earliest and most enthusiastic ad mirers of Dwight Eisenhower, Nixon became Ike's running mate. In six crammed years, Dick Nixon rose from complete obscurity to become, at 40, the youngest Vice President since John Breckinridge (of the Buchanan Administration) and Ike's able right-hand...
...earliest artist shown is William Rush, who was born in 1756 and became the nation's first professional sculptor. His Music is a graceful wooden girl who is as pleasing in her mute way as the muse she represents. When it came to women, Rush's 19th century successors were even more gallant than he. John Rogers' Lost Pleiad shows American sculpture at its most blatantly sentimental. Daniel French's Memory is a matronly nude shown brooding about some lost and precious moment, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' golden Diana is as winsome as the larger...