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...radical changes before endorsing them. They knew the program would alienate some Northern white moderates, but they argued, and argued rightly, there is no other way to liberate Mississippi. Mississippi is the only state where a majority of whites don't consider desegregation "inevitable." Remembering that Reconstruction lasted only seventeen years, Missippians plan to resist until the North again tires of crusading...
...right then: Mary had a little lamb-chop. He tries it. No go. What a way to get rid of, to get rid of--She was just Seventeen...
Also annoying is Sorensen's sparse use of examples--although he does cite the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 seventeen times. (He does not mention the Bay of Pigs.) Despite his personal intimacy with many decisions, Sorensen repeatedly speaks in the generic ("the most formidable debater is not necessarily the most informed; the reticent may sometimes be the wisest,") instead of the specific rendering insights so vage as to be meaningless...
Eric had the art. He learned his first stud poker lessons in penny ante games with newspaper boys and warehouse workers: when to raise, when to check a cinch, how to buy a pot. By the time he was seventeen he knew he was cut out to be a member of the quiet, all night world of rambling-gambling men. Soon, from Covington to Miami, from Vegas to Brooklyn, he became known as The Cincinnati Kid, "a comer, with a way about...
...just seventeen...