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...ORDEAL OF WOODROW WILSON (318 pp.)-Herbert Hoover-McGraw-Hill...
...EDGAR HOOVER...
...playwrights he panned, slight (5 ft. 7 in., 130 1bs.), white-thatched First Nighter Nathan was one of Broadway's most feared and lonely figures. In a rain of newspaper columns, magazine articles and books, he aimed his dyspeptic darts at every sobersided target from Hollywood to Herbert Hoover. Yet when Critic Nathan made his final exit last week at 76, the U.S. theater mourned the death (of arteriosclerosis) of its doughtiest champion...
...Sahl legend continues to grow. Often mercilessly abusive ("I see where J. Edgar Hoover has written a book. I think it's called How to Turn In Your Friends to the FBI for Fun and Profit"), sometimes sharply on target ("The reissue title of this paperback book is Here Is My Flesh, which originally appeared as An Introduction to Accounting"), Sahl flays both political left and right, freewheels through a labyrinth of rambling asides to his punch lines...
...simple, straightforward way, Hoover perhaps gives more true answers to the "problem of Communism" than many of his more sophisticated critics. His contempt for the addled notion that Communism is essentially a response to economic inequalities is soundly based. As he sees it, there are two faiths at war in the world, and his notion that only a true faith will defeat a false one may be so plain and old-fashioned as to be right...