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...describes already feel like they happened decades ago, but he writes as if they just happened yesterday--with a brittle, unpleasant, debater's edge, still eager to score points and settle scores. The Clinton Wars is neither history nor journalism nor memoir. It's just more politics. --By Lev Grossman...
...running out of material? "Catastrophes seem to find me," he says. "I grew up in a little town in nowhere, Massachusetts, and one day these men rolled up in a black van and started casting a Tang commercial..." It should be a while before he runs dry. --By Lev Grossman...
...first mass-media news sensation. "Millions of people hitherto unknown to one another," he writes, "began to involve themselves, for the first time ever, in looking beyond their hitherto limited horizons of self." Paradoxically, even as the eruption of Krakatoa pulverized an island, it united a planet. --By Lev Grossman...
...underbelly of late--20th century America. "In 1970 the prison population was just dropping," Schlosser says. "Last week they announced it was over 2 million. This is the land of the free, with the most prisoners in history! It's unbelievable!" See? He's still shocked. --By Lev Grossman...
After graduating from Karl Marx, Wechsler worked as an organizer at a clubhouse before becoming a professional journalist in the ’60s. He supported himself with writings about the United States, a topic of great interest to the East German public. And he assumed the name Victor Grossman, the pseudonym under which Crossing the River will be published next September...