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...Office of Management and Budget, and finally as secretary of the old Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.Weinberger returned to the nation’s capitol in 1981 to head up the Pentagon and stayed in the job until 1987, serving longer than any secretary of defense except Robert S. McNamara.Administering the largest peacetime defense buildup in history, which totaled $2 trillion, Weinberger saw his nickname change from “Cap the Knife”—an unflattering moniker he had earned for cutting public spending during the 1970s?...
...least that's what happened in Brown's best-selling novel. Either way the secrets are out now, and if they weren't worth $24.95 to you in hardcover, you can get them and the absorbing tale of Harvard "symbologist" (sorry, but there's no such thing) Robert Langdon and minxy sleuthette Sophie Neveu for cheap...
Brilliant, brooding, fatally naive--J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the tragic figures of mid-20th century America. It was he who led the team at Los Alamos, N.M., that developed the first atom bomb. But after World War II he became an outspoken opponent of developing the even more powerful hydrogen bomb. That stance brought him the powerful enemies who would conspire to have him stripped of his security clearance and publicly humiliated. This biography is masterful, lucid and balanced, always mindful of Oppenheimer's role in his downfall--even at Los Alamos he was frequently surrounded by former...
...centered on a vampire and other gothic creatures. It became the cult hit Dark Shadows, which ran on ABC from 1966 to '71. Later he produced and directed two of the best-rated mini-series in history: The Winds of War and its sequel, War and Remembrance--starring Robert Mitchum, above with Curtis--for which he won an Emmy...
...other members of the Corporation are economist Robert D. Reischauer ’63, the former director of the Congressional Budget Office; investment manager James F. Rothenberg ’68; and Robert E. Rubin ’60, who preceded Summers as Treasury secretary...