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...allowed it. His wife Evelyn allowed him to do so. His document was not simply a wenching man's laundry list; it became in part a repository of American sexual habits from World War I into the 1960s. On another level, a man who hated Jews, Italians and Roosevelt while admiring Hitler managed, according to his critics, to capture just about every significant thing that happened in this country--culturally, socially, politically and economically--during the time frame of his obsession. Professor Aaron says the 1,000 or so characters Inman debriefed, so to speak (the more lurid the accounts...
...SHADOW OF THE LAW -- KERMIT ROOSEVELT...
...would sell the book short. There are suspenseful, devious plots aplenty--one about a last-minute death-row appeal, another about a corporation's dodging blame for an industrial accident--but it's Shadow's cast of characters, largely overworked junior lawyers, that will keep you up at night. Roosevelt (a descendant of Theodore and a former Supreme Court clerk) writes about the law more passionately and entertainingly than anyone since Scott Turow...
...next day, a radiologist is flown in from Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station in Puerto Rico, 600 miles away, to read the CT scan. The log reports, "No anomalies were found." Nonetheless, al-Qahtani is given an ultrasound for blood clots. For the first time since the log began, al-Qahtani is given an entire day to sleep. The next evening, the log reports that his medical "checks are all good." Al-Qahtani is "hooded, shackled and restrained in a litter" and transported back to Camp X-Ray in an ambulance...
After the war, Halberstam’s family returned to New York. He then attended Roosevelt High School in Westchester County...