Word: parmet
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...JUDGES Stephen E. Ambrose, Alan Brinkley, Robert Dallek, David M. Kennedy, William E. Leuchtenburg, Ernest R. May, Walter A. McDougall, Herbert S. Parmet, Arthur Schlesinger...
...team amassed 32 points against B.U. with help from Lauren Rose, Chris Bell and Andy Parmet, who each scored a try, and Julio Depietro who contributed two tries to the romp. Three penalties, a drop-goal and two conversions constituted the other 16 points in the game...
...Herbert S. Parmet; Little, Brown...
Making Richard Nixon seem ordinary is no easy task, but Herbert Parmet almost pulls it off. A respected historian, he spent six years burrowing into various archives and interviewing just about every living soul who has encountered the 37th President -- as well as the man himself, a feat few Nixon biographers can match. Unfortunately, it yielded no major scoops...
...Parmet's Nixon is not the driven, tortured, fascinating schemer of popular memory or Watergate fame. In fact, that career-ending scandal merits only six pages at the book's close. Instead, Parmet paints Nixon as a regular guy, a mediator between the forces of welfare statism and cold war red bashing. Every rap against the former President -- from his 1952 slush fund to the 1972 Christmas bombing of North Viet Nam -- is thoroughly ventilated and, in most cases, dismissed. Nixon, says Parmet, was merely a child of his times, who "harnessed the unease that lay just below the surface...