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LYNDON: AN ORAL BIOGRAPHY by Merle Miller; Putnam; 645 pages...
Merle Miller is a novelist, journalist and author of the 1974 bestseller, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman. What is an oral biography? Essentially, it is a dramatic device to present a subject through an arrangement of quotations threshed from hundreds of interviews. The result is documentary folklore in which the leading character-usually described as larger than life-does not stop growing simply because he is dead. Miller's Truman emerged as the most uncommon common man ever to say s.o.b. in the White House. Until, of course, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...message that a hearing for an injunction was in progress. Half an hour later, in a borrowed coat and tie, he was Clarence Darrowing his way through the last hundred years of first amendment law in front of a duly impressed judge). And he's a true believer, the Oral Roberts of the freedom of speech. So what if he likes the press and relishes having all the liberals mad at him? He knows he is right; it's so comforting to be an absolutist, for it never even allows you to think of circumstances and deviations and morality...
...Truman Capote spring immediately to mind, along with their catchy formulations, "nonfiction novel" and "the novel as history." Mailer, nurtured on emanations from Marx, Freud, Kierkegaard and Wilhelm Reich, can be an inspired explainer of the modern cloven spirit. Capote, the old Southern boy, steeped in regionalism and the oral tradition, is the storyteller, the Mother Goose of U.S. writing...
...sores, around the mouth: it is also an agent in various eye ailments that can, if untreated, lead to blindness. The second usually shows up in the genital area of both sexes, and sometimes on the thighs and buttocks. Both types can be transmitted between mouth and genitals by oral...