Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public figures, all eight autobiographers present an equally intractable set of questions about their public, as opposed to private, identieis which Leibowitz seems reluctant to answer. The book should--and does not--acknowledge the relevance of the writers' public status in disguising the personal "revelations" of style...
Clear and Present Danger...
...latest effort, Clear and Present Danger, seems realistic not because of its description, but because of its plot--which anticipates with frightening accuracy exactly how the South American drug war has unfolded in recent months...
...with Clear and Present Danger, Clancy has managed to write a book that does more than tell a dazzling and gripping story. Clancy is clearly frustrated with how the government has treated the military, and has written a story to tell everyone just...
READERS should be warned that Clear and Present Danger relies more heavily on stories told in earlier novels than any of Clancy's prior works. Those who haven't read Red October or Patriot Games might be a more than a bit puzzled by some passages and puns...