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...account of the events that take place while the lawyer attempts a holiday with his wife and teen-age daughter, dubbed Saigon because it was her timely birth that kept the attorney from being sent there. Kennedy is a variegated yarn of third-rate perpetrators, second-class citizens and first-person encounters. But it works. Under the author's increasingly deft touch, events blend like coffee and Irish whisky, and conversations ring as true as coins on a mahogany...
...UNDESIRABLE JOURNALIST, a sampling of Wallraff's work over the last decade, contains ten such exposes all told in a narrative, first-person format. This collection features his masquerades as a porter, a night watchman in a cigar factory, the representative of a ficititious Jewish organization, an assembly-line worker, a right-wing informer pretending to be a socialist party member, and an adviser to the President of a West German political party. At 38, Walraff has been a journalist and self-made undercover agent for 14 years, emerging for a press conference or to write a newspaper article, remaining...
...nothing can match the timing that Gauger demonstrated last week: she was the only journalist inside the U.S. embassy in Islamabad when it was attacked and burned by a Pakistani mob. Gauger's first-person account of the siege and her subsequent rescue is a substantial part of this week's cover story...
...started an auto plant in Northern Ireland and may want GM's help in securing parts and dealers. After years of frustration, Wright took out a $50,000 second mortgage on his house and published the book himself. The work is presented as DeLorean's first-person account, and he now says that he generally would not repudiate...
Further evidence of the Israeli government's sensitivity on the Palestinian question came to light last week when it became known that a ministerial censorship committee had prevented former Premier Yitzhak Rabin from including in his memoirs a first-person account of the expulsion of 50,000 Palestinian civilians from their homes near Tel Aviv during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Some of Rabin's former colleagues disputed his account; the censors' action was presumably based on the argument that any discussion of the subject by former officials tends to damage Israel's reputation overseas...