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...Harvard Law faculty in 1968 and quickly entered the spotlight as an eloquent advocate for liberal causes. He has argued three dozen cases in front of the Supreme Court—famously representing Vice President Albert J. Gore Jr. ’69 in the December 2000 Florida recount dispute...
...talk radio, and the television universe splintered between the old networks and the new culture of cable gladiators in which opinion was more entertaining than information and cheaper to produce as well. In the face of the passionate partisan fights over President Clinton's impeachment and the 2000 Florida recount, it was no wonder people sought refuge in a section of the infosphere where certainty was possible...
...various, absurd speculations. Comprised of ten broadsheet-size strips by Spiegelman with an addendum of selected turn of the century newspaper strips, In the Shadow of No Towers takes a similar, (co)mixed-up approach. Any one of Spiegelman's pages will use a multiplicity of styles to simultaneously recount his September 11 memories - he lives in downtown New York on the outskirts of Ground Zero - with considerations of the catastrophe's geo-political and personal aftermath...
...slow, agonizing recovery from the day's trauma, made more difficult by a deeply ingrained paranoia and pessimism, becomes the book's emotional and narrative core. Created over the course of two years, he uses the strips to temper, if not actually resolve, his stress. While the early ones recount the agonizing moments of day - hearing the roar of the impact, retrieving his daughter from her nearby middle school, watching as the second tower collapses - the later strips are more abstract. Spiegelman laments what he sees as the co-opting of September 11 to justify further polarizing acts...
BILL RANCIC You're Hired (HarperCollins; September) Last season's winner takes a break from his new job heading a Chicago construction project to recount the story of his rise to Trumpian glory...