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Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino -The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel -The Magazine Maze, Herbert R. Mayes - Naming Names, Victor Navasky -Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan - "Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" Orville Schell Ways of Escape, Graham Greene Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J.Liebling, Raymond Sokolov
NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙ Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J. Liebling, Raymond Sokolov...
...Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel. The dean of U.S. pundits revealed as a fallible man. American Dreams: Lost and Found by Studs Terkel. The latest chorus of voices of hope and trouble, edited and affectionately arranged by the oral historian. Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin Kaplan. A thorough, artful analysis of the first all-American poet, by the author of the Pulitzer prizewinning Mister Clemens and Mark Twain...
...make some one more vivid hi their minds. Where would baseball be without Goose, hockey without Boom Boom, football without Mean Joe? Common criminals would sound like common criminals were there no Machine Gun, Killer or Mad Dog among them. Not that all gangster names are so picturesque. Nathan Kaplan's monicker was "Kid Dropper" for reasons too awful to contemplate. And Al Capone was known as the Millionaire Gorilla, though it is hard to picture some floozie chucking him under the chin and cooing, "Come on, you big, bad Millionaire Gorilla...
WITH SUCH dexterity and literary aplomb, the author justifies another Whitman biography. Though the first was written in 1850, even before Leaves of Grass, and many have followed, Kaplan's biography creates the density of Whitman's life in contemporary terms and with the aid of new materials--previoulsy unavailable private papers of Whitman and his friends--available to him. At a time when America questions whether or not it is still the light of the world, it refreshes and reassures to discover a man who did beleive in the President as a redeemer, and democracy as a catalyst...