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Although "the entire Parliament of England spent two weeks on this guy," Damrosch said, Naylor rarely receives more than a paragraph in histories of the period...
...Albania and several points east, aboard wheezing buses, cranky trains and (once) a luxury cruise ship larded with rich Americans. Fans of previous Theroux travelogs like The Happy Isles of Oceania will relish some familiar ingredients. There is, for starters, his dazzling prose, which in a flick of a paragraph can shift from lowly growls of disgust to images of seascape with the allusive force of poetry...
Donald's scholarship is excellent; hardly a paragraph is without a quote from Lincoln or a contemporary of Lincoln's who dealt closely with him. However Donald's emphasis on documentation makes it difficult for the reader to forget, even momentarily, that this a historical biography. The reader never feels really inside the President's world and sharing what the president experiences...
...ironic that it was Arafat himself who best captured the sad legacy of his visit here: "If they write a paragraph about my history, they will write that I was at Harvard, that I spoke at Harvard." How true...
Bosnia, Croatia and the Serb-dominated Yugoslavia endorsed a preliminary plan for a new government of Bosnia, but even as the foreign ministers of the warring parties met at the U.N., their soldiers went on fighting. The leaders agreed on a 12-paragraph "statement of principles" providing for a group national presidency, a parliament, a constitutional court and "free, democratic elections." But the critical issue for any Bosnian peace, the disposition of territory, was not addressed. Even as the diplomats talked, the Bosnian army continued its offensive to retake sections of northwestern Bosnia captured by the Serbs...