Word: hamilton
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...tactics guarantee success. "My advice to people is to keep their expectations low," says the Kennedy School's Reich. "There are many more suitors than jobs." Nor is there much reason to believe that the insiders of today will be on top come January. Outsiders can take heart from Hamilton Jordan's infamous anti-Establishment bon mot of the 1976 campaign: "If Cy Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski are in the Administration, then we have lost...
...explain why his book hardly quotes journals and letters at all, but the reason is obvious. Susan's book about her father was published in 1984, several years before an important glitch arose in the writing of such works: J.D. Salinger successfully sued to prevent Biographer Ian Hamilton from generously quoting or even closely paraphrasing unpublished letters. After enduring that expensive, lengthy and losing litigation, Random House, Hamilton's publisher, grew understandably cautious about forthcoming biographies on its list. One of the first to be scrutinized in light of the new legal landscape was John Cheever: A Biography. Says Gerald...
James Randi barely made it into this world. Born prematurely in Toronto in 1928, he weighed only 2 lbs. 3 oz. Despite that precarious debut, Randall James Hamilton Zwinge soon took center stage. At nine, he invented a pop-up toaster; by his early teens he had taught himself trigonometry, calculus and hieroglyphics...
...very much fun to work in an industry that's going through a recession," says Levine, who has been hired by Booz Allen & Hamilton...
Five years after undertaking the project, Hamilton is sadder and presumably wiser, although not necessarily richer. Random House footed the legal bills, but of his $100,000 advance, the biographer used up half for research and travel expenses. And there was the cost of ambivalence: "I proceeded with as much tact and decency as one could," says Hamilton. "Nonetheless there he is, wanting to be left alone, and he isn't being left alone, and this is partly because of me." If he had known the outcome, would Hamilton have written about Salinger? "No," he says emphatically. How does...