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...little things only assume greater significance when they suggest some insight into a person's character. Few citizens begrudge a President some luxuries, but it has to be done in the context of respecting the folk who sent you. The New Democrat who cared about the people who worked hard and played by the rules and who eschewed the cultural elite for a decaf at McDonald's is now perceived as being concerned more about gays in the military, abortion-rights activists, and loading up his Cabinet with millionaire lawyers than with Middle America. "The President should remind himself," says...
...more as a thinker than as a money earner, and claims his foundation work "has brought me closer to realizing a real sense of satisfaction than making large amounts of money." His father's experience of losing a lucrative legal business during the war but living well nonetheless provides insight for Soros. "Part of what I learned was the futility of making money for money's sake," he says. "Wealth can be a dead weight...
...best, or whether he agreed with Anals Nin's characterization of June Miller in Henry and June. The majority of the letters Jong and Miller wrote back and forth are published in the book, and they are worth reading. Beyond the self-congratulation and mutual admiration, the letters provide insight into the two writers' conceptions of their work and the changing world around them. Also useful is Jong's quick summary of Miller's career--particularly the history of Miller's censorship and publication--although it relies heavily on much more interesting books on the same subject such as Edward...
...battle was neither particularly large nor particularly small by the standards of the Civil War. None of the imfamous military leaders immortalized in Civil War chess sets was present at Cross Keys. It was in many ways an average battle in the war. But as Svenson successfully argues, the insight of General Trimble, the defeat of the much larger Union army and the individual experiences of the Confederate Major and thousands of other soldiers, both Union and Confederate, made the Battle of Cross Keys significant. For those who fought and died at Cross Keys, the battle was just as important...
Even the French, self-appointed arbiters of the human romantic condition, are baffled. In Paris this spring, the provocative and enthralling Les Hommes et Les Femmes by Francoise Giroud and Bernard-Henri Levy was regarded as mandatory reading for anyone who sought to gain insight into the contemporary state of affairs between the sexes...