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...that's not all. Or maybe it's quite enough. The portrait of Nancy Reagan in Kelley's book is so lavishly, unrelentingly negative that it has set off a pair of fierce debates. The first centers on the former First Lady herself. Criticizing Nancy Reagan -- a First Lady America never really warmed to -- has become something of a cottage industry, and many of Kelley's charges merely reinforce and embellish those in earlier memoirs such as For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington by former White House chief of staff Donald Regan. "Had people liked Nancy Reagan...
...Erbil one sees why everybody is fleeing. The giant mosaic portrait of Saddam on the outskirts of town is riddled with bullet holes. The Kurdish parliament building is also trashed and gaping with shell holes. No one knows what is going on, but everyone is catching fright, which soon sweeps the city as it is doing in all the other towns. On a street corner, Kurds have a snowball fight with snow out of a truck brought down from the mountains for drinking water. A young girl wandering in a yard hands the visitor a message. "For my brother...
Patiently, and with loving humor, Mistry develops a portrait of a household: Gustad savoring mock-Tennyson verses at the dinner table, telling his friends of his son's college prospects, singing The Donkey Serenade to his ailing daughter. The details of his life are wonderfully exact: a bottle of Camel Royal Blue Ink, old copies of Bertrand Russell, an 1897 edition of Barrere and Leland's Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant. And Mistry catches the pungent cadences of Indian English as they have seldom been caught before: "What everything have you told them? Always I shout and scream, while...
Wojciech Jaruzelski: Prime Minister of Poland, 1985. A laudatory portrait of the father of martial law, who so impressed Maxwell during a 1985 meeting in Warsaw that the publisher declared in a radio interview that the Solidarity problem was "solved...
...something--perhaps many things--were lacking from this portrait. Further inquiries were of little use. Rudenstine seemed almost entirely unknown in his home neighborhood. I drew a blank at a pizza parlor and a nearby deli. Several florists gave me puzzled looks. A man behind the meat counter of a ritzy grocery store told me he had a photographic memory. It didn't contain any shots of Rudenstine or his wife...