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That was an understatement. The Wanting of Levine, the first venture into fiction by Dr. Michael Halberstam '53, is an eminently likeable book. The story of A.L. Levine, millionaire Jewish politico, and his accidental campaign for the presidency of an America grown tired and fat and eager for a new face, is most of what any novel should be: funny, touching, slapstick across the surface but with a strong subtle current running along the seabed, a roaring good story with a moral that doesn't have to hit you across the head. Halberstam, who won the 1953 Dana Reed Prize...
...members on various political subjects--mostly national issues. Most of the writing is clear and incisive. Its political line is mostly straight liberal. The Political Review is a small organization, closely--one might say incestuously--linked to the Institute of Politics. If you write well and are an aspiring politico, this is the place...
...Democrats have in many cases usurped the Republicans' traditional positions in favor of lower taxes and less Government spending. As Tennessee Politico Shelton Edwards once observed: "The way to get somewhere in politics is to find a crowd that's going some place and get in front of it." Conservative G.O.P. Strategist Lyn Nofziger grudgingly praises Democrats like California Governor Jerry Brown, who first opposed, then capitalized on his state's property tax revolt. Says Nofziger: "The Democrats are very fast to get in front on such an issue...
...weeks or so. As long as he was on the move-to China, to Russia, to San Clemente-he was at least predictable. It was when he slowed down, when he tried to play the role of the great American rather than the part of the cheap, grasping politico for which he was created, that he became dangerous. Nixon in tears after losing an election, Nixon rambling incoherently about his father's lemon ranch the day he resigned, Nixon waving gamely to the crowd as his helicopter prepared to take him from the White House for the last time...
Leslie H. Gelb, 41. As director of the department's Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, the articulate Gelb has elevated that office from its near-dormant status under Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. His main influence has been on arms control policy, where he works well with SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke. The two were close associates in the Defense Department in the late 1960s. A co-author of segments of the celebrated Pentagon papers, a onetime strategic affairs specialist at the Brookings Institution and a former diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times, Gelb is distrusted by hawkish opponents...