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ELEANOR AND FRANKLIN by Joseph P. Lash. 765 pages. Norton...
...hectic, unrewarding world collapsed in 1918, when Eleanor, then 33, discovered that Franklin was having a serious affair with her secretary, Lucy Mercer. Eleanor offered a divorce but, thinking of his political career-and for once encountering opposition from his mother-Franklin agreed to leave Lucy. Thereafter, according to Lash, the intimate side of their marriage was over. As time passed, private relations in general deteriorated even further. Polio was for Franklin the permanent blow that Lucy Mercer was for Eleanor. He spent increasing amounts of time seeking cures in the South, especially Warm Springs, where Missy LeHand...
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Soon Ellsberg, who seemed set for a brilliant Government career, was beginning to feel the lash of collective guilt. Even before the Tet offensive in 1968, he began to voice his doubts about the war; his initial attack came during a gathering of intellectuals in Bermuda under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Endowment. As the war dragged on, his sense of personal guilt heightened and his torment deepened. His conflict had developed to the point that even Kissinger was reluctant to include Ellsberg in the Nixon planning group...
Though Barr was nominally opposed to "the crude lash of competition," he sent his own four sons to the fiercely competitive Horace Mann School, and chipped away at Dalton's progressivism by installing tests to supplement written evaluations of students. In an opinionated article several years ago, he flayed teen-age sex ("robots in heat") and roasted permissive parents. "The trouble with many children," he declared, "is that their fathers are mothers and their mothers are sisters...