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Checking return addresses on old letters, Lachenmeyer traveled first to Grantham, New Hampshire, where Charles rented a room in 1983 with the aid of pension and disability money. In Grantham and other cities, Lachenmeyer learned that his father lived alone, churning out pamphlets about government thought control. Before becoming ill, he had published two sociology books. Now he added titles like Technological Slavery to his curriculum vitae. "My father never recognized that he was mentally ill," Lachenmeyer says. "He spent the lion's share of each day looking for teaching work...
...Power (HarperCollins; 656 pages; $30), the second volume of her autobiography, makes clear, Thatcher was probably too simple and direct for the Tories, with their heavy baggage of class and compromise. She traveled light, proud of her roots as a grocer's daughter from the small town of Grantham but never tethered by working-class resentments or delusions of inferiority. Her parents taught her the verities they believed in: Methodism, hard work, thrift and the importance of the individual. She has never wavered from them, and they run through the book...
National Basketball Association camps opened, and the start of the season is not under direct threat, yet to hear N.B.A. Players Association executive director Charles Grantham tell it, Armageddon is just a free throw away. Says Grantham: "We both ((owners and players)) have atomic bombs. Before we avoided using them by a pact of mutually assured destruction. But now there's a threat that we both might throw unless we negotiate...
...more powerful than the league," says N.B.A. deputy commissioner Russ Granik. "They are the giant, and we're the mouse." Player representatives, seeing endorsement money rolling in to Nike athletes, are loath to criticize the company. "There are no rules barring what Nike is doing," says Charles Grantham, executive director of the N.B.A. Players Association...
Oddly, Gray Grantham, the male half of Grisham's protagonist couple, is an investigative reporter for the Washington Post and, relatively speaking, one of the good guys. This is a blow; journalists like to consider themselves outcasts from decent society, and novelist Grisham is telling them that their reading on the nation's revulsion meter is insignificant. Grantham's fellow fugitive and lady love is Darby Shaw, a beautiful law student who, in the finest tradition of 19th century fiction, is saved from a life of litigation when she drops out of law school perilously close to the bar exam...