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...like the younger sibling of a child prodigy: its achievements appear smaller than they actually are, and its flaws more serious. Gus Lee's China Boy was as precocious as they come. Based on the author's own childhood, it told of a first-generation Chinese-American misfit named Kai Ting who struggles to grow up in a predominantly black San Francisco neighborhood. The youngster stands up to the ghetto's bullies and his Caucasian stepmother, who imposes a harsh Americanization regimen that bans Chinese language and customs. Out of these fresh and dramatic materials Lee fashioned a winning novel...
...While it may disappoint some readers of China Boy, Lee's new book, Honor & Duty (Knopf; 425 pages; $23), demonstrates that he made the right career move. The novel picks up Kai's story in 1964, when he arrives at West Point to honor his father's wish that he become a professional soldier. As a plebe, Kai is once again subjected to brutal treatment, and as America steps up its involvement in Vietnam, he again must struggle to reconcile the Asian and the American aspects of his identity...
...symptoms of tertiary syphilis. The last works that hold some spark of visual life are Johnson's religious subjects, such as the beautiful tempera drawing Ezekiel Saw the Wheel (circa 1942-43). After the war he began a series of paintings of Fighters for Freedom: political figures (Chiang Kai-shek, Churchill, Nehru and others) and icons of black history, such as Nat Turner hanged on a tree. They are mostly feeble, lacking the iconic power and brilliantly felt color of the earlier work. By 1946, for all intents, Johnson's life as an artist was over. He made a return...
...through May 17, the nation's official depository of portraits is showing 36 TIME covers of men and women who played key roles in the Second World War. "TIME Covers the War: Personalities from World War II" spans the period from Jan. 3, 1938, when General and Madame Chiang Kai-shek of China were on the cover, to May 21, 1945, when Japan's Emperor Hirohito was rendered as the divine "Son of Heaven." Also included: Joseph Stalin as the 1942 Man of the Year, General Douglas MacArthur upon his triumphant return to the Philippines in October 1944 and Adolf...
...Lindbergh after he made the first solo crossing of the Atlantic earlier that year, they named him Man of the Year. The idea caught on, and among Lindy's successors have been such men as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill and such women as Wallis Simpson and Madame Chiang Kai-shek...