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...didn't, though. Michael Herr, whose 1977 Dispatches was one of the seminal books about Vietnam, first wrote this semifictional portrait of the man who turned gossip into a heavy industry as a film script. Herr recalls in a preface that he thought of the piece as "something 'more' than a screenplay," while the prospective producers regarded it as "something less." Salvaging his unproduced work, he has kept much of the shape, hard rhythm and clipped language of the film format, as well as the occasional camera direction...
Russell Miller (no relation) was a bit luckier. His Bare-Faced Messiah, a damning portrait of the late L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, remained in bookstores only on a technicality. Although the court agreed with the complainant, New Era Publications International, a Danish company with Scientology connections, it found that New Era had taken too long to bring suit over Miller's use of Hubbard's letters and diaries...
...were the kidnapers still up to their same old tricks? -- An intrepid researcher provides a scary portrait of the evolution of Detroit gangs. -- Hugh Sidey on the noncampaign...
...Community College. In 1980 Taylor set out to study Detroit's two biggest and most powerful youth gangs: Young Boys Inc. and the Pony Down. In the process, he encountered four additional groups. The resulting book, Dangerous Society, published in February by Michigan State University Press, provides a harrowing portrait of how the gangs transformed themselves from opportunistic street punks into sophisticated drug-dealing empires that rake in hundreds of millions a year...
...most astounding and disgraceful paradoxes about Harvard is that a quite frankly second-rate president, John F. Kennedy '40, has a whole graduate school named after him, while Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, arguably the savior of Western civilization, goes unrecognized here, save for a portrait on the second floor of the Union...