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...sites, with anecdotes about jealous volcanic piles and impromptu gazelle hunts, terrifying sandstorms and quiet nights under the Sahara sky, he somehow does. Pity then that he subjects his work to treatment strangely similar to the desecration he decries. For in his book, there is beauty beneath, a vivid portrait of his embattled Sahara Man, the Tuareg. But to see it, you have to look past the marks of an outsider, the signature of one who likes to say, all too often, "Jeremy Keenan was here...
...POURS: Praise is raining down on "The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson (Harcourt; October). PW gives it a starred, boxed review, its highest accolade. "Johnson reevaluates what happened to America in the ?90s and paints a warts-and-all portrait that may shock many Americans and force others to review the new millennium?s values...America from 1990 to 2001 - from impeachment to recession, the rise of the Internet to the fall of Nasdaq, and the upheaval of the 2000 elections - is covered in startling detail by Johnson...
...George W. Bush gave his big budget speech last week--arguing that his tax cut was jump-starting the economy and that big-spending Democrats were squandering the surplus--he delivered it in Harry S Truman's hometown of Independence, Mo. At Harry S Truman High School. Under a portrait of Harry S Truman. The not-so-subliminal message: like Truman, the first President to push for health coverage for seniors, Bush would give 'em hell on behalf of older Americans...
...years? What we're asking is whether Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (Farrar Straus; 528 pages; $26) will become that rare thing, a literary work that everybody's reading? A lot of people are saying yes. The season's other anticipated novels include The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer, Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende, Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul and The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa...
...continues to mount. Since 1975, the number of Americans afflicted with the disease has jumped from 500,000 to 5 million. Over the next fifty years, an estimated 80-100 million people worldwide will succumb to Alzheimer?s. On September 4, Doubleday will publish "The Forgetting: Alzheimer?s: Portrait of an Epidemic" by David Shenk. Says the publisher, "A magnificent synthesis of history, science, politics, psychology, and profound human drama, ?The Forgetting? explores the nature of a disease that attacks our memory and, by extension, the very core of our human identity...