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...elected in the first place. ``Those old speeches,'' says an aide, ``were like core documents.'' The essence of the lesson, White House officials say, is that government must change but not disappear. Much has been made of Clinton's numerous meetings with manageagement mavens, late-night-television self-help gurus and, last week, a big group of history professors and other academics. But in the private speech-preparation sessions, it was the old speeches that Clinton kept coming back to. As he said at his first bull session on Jan. 9, ``What got me to the White House, what...
Think of him as Dan Quayle with brains and a degree in psychiatry. Call him God's golfer. It's hard not to roll your eyes when M. Scott Peck, M.D., personal-enrichment guru to the nation's conflicted upper middle class, author of The Road Less Traveled, a self-help manual whose sales have placed it on the New York Times best-seller list for the past 566 weeks, announces that he is sponsoring a $10,000-a-foursome golf tournament to promote "spirituality, golf and the fine art of business management." Business biggies will tee off this weekend...
...writings and his personality, though a surprising range of critics clearly feel that what predominates is wisdom, or at least solidly grounded common sense. And if you aren't willing to risk a little fatuity, you probably aren't going to sell 5 million copies of a self-help book...
...author, who has written several other self-help best sellers, now says that Road bores him, "but that's where the money is." Mildly cynical wisecracks of this kind seem merely to assure believers that Peck is a regular guy, as do revelations that he smokes, and drinks fairly heavily. At 58 he is trying to scale back his incessant speaking engagements to about 25 a year, at $15,000 apiece. But the guru business, like the Mafia, is hard to retire from. He and his wife Lily generally suffer his adulators tolerantly, but they have been heard to refer...
Your choices range from self-help books to celebrity biographies, from John Grisham thrillers to the works of Dickens and Shakespeare, most narrated by well-known actors (Sam Waterston, Whoopi Goldberg, Glenda Jackson, Michael York) and compressed into easy-listening chunks of three or four hours -- "because," as one audio publisher's blurb puts it, "books are long and life is short...