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...abustle with larger, if entirely inchoate, ambitions. They have invested John with a real problem -- alcoholism -- and they have plunked the Learys down on a block that is a sort of dumping ground for the damned of the lower middle class. Among their new neighbors are a neo-Nazi, a drug-addict mom who dies of an overdose and someone who keeps a pack of killer Dobermans in the yard next door. For a family teetering on the brink of dysfunction, this environment seems bound to push them over the edge. Sure enough, Dylan, the younger son, is kidnapped...
...thought German science could have a lead in the race because a German chemist, Otto Hahn, had discovered nuclear fission in 1938. His countryman Werner Heisenberg was considered by many to be the world's leading physicist and was certain to be at the center of any Nazi A-bomb effort...
...Nazi leaders seem to have had no idea what they should have been doing in the nuclear field and paid scant attention to what others were working on. The U.S. actually had the facts about the desultory German effort but were worried that they were a smoke screen. Heisenberg, a Nobel laureate already famous for his work in quantum mechanics, was drafted for the weapons program in September 1939. But serious work halted in June 1942 when Heisenberg told Albert Speer, Hitler's war-production czar, that an atom bomb could not be produced fast enough to affect the outcome...
...Oakland, Japanese by Spring casts Benjamin "Chappie" Puttbutt as an ambitious Black junior professor at predominately white Jack London College, where he kowtows to white colleagues and a neo-nazi student body as a means of courting a tenured appointment in the Humanities department. When the news breaks that the coveted position has been granted to radical feminist April Jokujoku, Puttbutt reconsiders his politics, digging out paraphernalia from his Blank Panther days at the Air Force Academy. Puttbutt's shift in perspective coincides with the buying out of Jack London College by Japanese investors who rewrite the cirriculum and appoint...
What do the Ku Klux Klan and the Boy Scouts have in common? Not much. But recently, the fight against discrimination--once targeted at obvious villians such as the Klan and the American Nazi Party--has broadened to encompass such symbols of Americans as the Boy Scouts, the Army and the St. Patrick's Day Parade...