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There are surprising incongruities to that caricature. His own family is not picture perfect (his brother was convicted of fraud), and according to Weisskopf and Schmidt, he "was never the hard-right ideologue later portrayed by Clinton allies." His childhood hero was John Kennedy. When Starr considered running for the Senate in Virginia, it was to derail the campaign of Oliver North, the right-wing poster boy whom he considered "a disgrace...
...undergraduate novel of self-discovery and education, or Bildungsroman. I suppose it is possible to retain this tradition by writing the autobiography of a life parked before a computer screen. But how much flavor would be missing without the scene of the hero walking across campus alone on a winter night, his head uncovered, his jacket collar drawn tight about his neck, alone, hearing a violin play You'll Never Walk Alone in a practice room somewhere, alone, in the snow that turns to rain...
...hard act to follow. The Running Mate (Dial Press; 403 pages; $26.95) is Klein's game attempt to keep the momentum going, a sequel of sorts. Charlie Martin, the new novel's hero, appeared briefly in the earlier book as a presidential candidate--a U.S. Senator from the Midwest, dismissed by the press as a hippie Vietnam Vet. Many characters from Colors do brief walk-ons in the new book, much as the star of a popular sitcom may help launch a spin-off. On TV, of course, spin-offs usually fail...
...troubles and gain the kind of conditioning essential to the high-stakes (if not always high-seas) working world. Ishmael sweeps the deck, scans the loft and stays high and dry for the next 500 pages. Then, alas, Moby-Dick shows, battle ensues and all are lost save our hero himself. Call it a very hostile takeover...
...born in Canada. I did not grow up watching the fabled Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup year after year. I’m not old enough to remember legends like Gordie Howe or Bobby Orr. And though Wayne Gretzky might have been a hockey hero in L.A., in my small suburb of New York City he was just some guy to bitch-slap on the Sega Genesis...