Word: knebel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military coup in the United States that flounders only because the general has an impeachable background (a woman), and the White House threatens to use it against him. Still very tense and even a little scary in its implications. Rod Serling wrote the script based on the novel by Knebel Bailey. I think the real credit goes to Bailey; Serling just knows a good thing when he sees it and only occasionally when he writes it. Ch. 56, 8 p.m., 2 1/2 hours. Black and white...
...distill the experience of three centuries of European interaction with the Americas into a paradigm of history, culture, morals, and psychology. He proves that a political novel need not be on the level of satire or gossip, that it can rise above Allen Drury and Gore Vidal and Fletcher Knebel. Garcia's heroes are political heroes, and they are better heroes than carefully apolitical novelists have been able to create...
...updating of Seven Days in May, Fletcher Knebel's 1962 novel in which the military tries to take over the U.S. Government? According to news accounts, the Pentagon had planted a spy ring in the White House to ransack Henry Kissinger's classified files and copy documents relating to the National Security Council's most sensitive deliberations. The stolen information was then relayed to Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other Pentagon brass...
...packed panoramic, superficial novels to learn how Tom Wicker feels about newspaper business, even when Tom Wicker wrote the book in question. Facing the Lions is kind of light weight entertainment, nothing more, though it is pretty successful in its own way--better than most of what Drury or Knebel produced. Precisely why Tom Wicker would spend his time writing this kind of book is unclear, but even if Facing the Lions is only entertainment no less mindless than television, it has more sex on its pages than is likely to come for some time over the airwaves...
Allen Drury, Fletcher Knebel, and now Tom Wicker, worthy liberal columnist for the New York Times and formerly chief of its Washington bureau...