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...Edmund Wilson was an excellent specimen of that now nearly extinct species: the all-around man of letters. During his long life (he outlived his friend and Princeton classmate, F. Scott Fitzgerald, by more than thirty years), he tried his hand at a wide variety of literary genres: from poetry and drama to fiction, journalism, history and polemics, as well as a voluminous (and decidedly indiscreet) journal. Primarily, sometimes exclusively, known as a literary critic (a fact that never failed to annoy him), he also found time to write an average of more than two-and-a-half letters...
...amazing that anyone who wrote as much in as many different fields as Edmund Wilson did could have found time to have a life at all, much less to document it as doggedly as he does in his letters and journals. This volume begins with letters that Wilson wrote to his parents while he was overseas during World War I, then divides the letters up in sections according to their recipients, and while this technique has been used before (most notably with Andrew Turnbull's edition of Fitzgerald's letters), I've never quite see the point of it. There...
...Reading Edmund Wilson gives you the pleasure of accompanying a first-rate intellectual explorer as he embarks on a ceaseless quest to learn new things (and to tweak old friends: "I hope you are not one of those dreadful liberals who are rooting for the downfall of [Senator Joseph] McCarthy," he writes to the once radical and by then notoriously reactionary John Dos Passos). While his familial relations, highlighted here, can sometimes be off-putting (one wonders if the letters included from Wilson to his third wife, the much-younger novelist Mary McCarthy, are really the meatiest part...
...past, the Free Democrats have been the traditional coalition partner of the Christian Democratic Union, with the FDP usually securing the post of foreign minister in a coalition government. This year, the party has decided to run Westerwelle as a Chancellor candidate against Schröder and conservative candidate Edmund Stoiber. The goal is to win 18% of the vote and have a bigger say in the makeup of the next government. Opinion polls, however, suggest the party may win no more than 9% of the vote (compared with 6.2% in 1998). One reason for this...
After an unsuccesful bid for the governorship of Maine in 1974, he served as a federal judge, en route to succeeding his political mentor Edmund Muskie (D—Me.) as a U.S. senator...