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...their institutions as a disgruntled minority; today top executives fret openly about the problem. "There is nothing more important to us than to restore the public's faith," says Samuel Armacost, president of San Francisco's Bank America (assets: $121 billion). John McGillicuddy, chairman of New York's Manufacturers Hanover ($73 billion), concurs: "I think the confidence factor is the most serious issue we face. We haven't lost it completely, but it has eroded seriously...
...turn-of-the-century New York City of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, and the range of real-life characters is even greater: Hoodlums Al Capone and Frank Nitti and Machine Gun Jack McGurn, Mayors Big Bill Thompson and Anton Cermak, Roman Catholic Cardinal George Mundelein, Utilities Tycoon Samuel Insull and Assassin Giuseppe Zangara, who struck down Cermak in Miami while trying to kill Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Throughout this book, Brady traces the maturation of a man who always hungered for things that were only partially available to him. The two most profound influences were his relationships with his natural father Lord Auchinleck and with his adopted father Samuel Johnson. Lord Auchinleck was "upright, hardworking, shrewd, practical and totally unimaginative." To take a ridiculous modern example, his relationship with James was akin to that of Oliver Barrett III and his conservative, wealthy father in Eric Segal's Love Story. Boswell felt the same mixture of perverse joy in defying Lord Auchinleck that Oliver feels in resisting...
...writer. As the author desired, we do come away with an impression of Boswell as a powerful and interesting personality in his own right, far away from the shadow of his brilliant mentor. We understand better the mind that absorbed and synthesized detail like no other and consistently entertained Samuel Johnson, the most demanding of conversationalists. And we take satisfaction in a book that should set the standard for biographies of Boswell, as Boswell's own work set the standard 200 years...
...emigrated to the U.S. Other demanding authors, who possess a greater command of foreign tongues, have decided that self-translation is best. Nabokov, whose early work was written in Russian, rendered Laughter in the Dark into English. He also turned Lolita, which was written in English, into Russian. Samuel Beckett, an Irishman who writes mostly in French, has translated his plays, Waiting for Godot, Endgame and others, into his native English...