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There is the Jesse Jackson that many whites distrust and some even fear. He is the former black radical, the civil rights leader who threatened white businessmen with economic boycotts, the presidential candidate who called Jews "Hymie" and New York City " Hymietown." In his shadow, neither embraced nor disavowed, stands Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, a Black Muslim sect, who has praised Hitler and seemed to threaten a black reporter with death...
...cold day more than four years ago, the treacherous terrain of the Panjshir Valley has served local rebels as both sanctuary and symbol. The determined Mujahedin guerrillas have been nurtured by grain from its verdant hills, water from its mountain streams and shelter within caves in the shadow of its snow-capped peaks. Above all, the 70-mile-long valley has been the hideout and headquarters of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the charismatic 30-year-old Mujahedin leader who has united more than 5,000 squabbling resistance fighters under his shrewd and well-organized leadership...
...next 20 years they met mostly in international airports, and the mutual obsession flourished. She scanned the departure lounges on her endless political trips and was sometimes rewarded. For her lover, an actual sighting was not necessary: "She had always been there in his peripheral vision, a fitful shadow, the image that came forward when he was alone in a hotel room or at 35,000 feet." In the best romantic tradition, this pair of high flyers is reunited only in time for Jack to die of a heart attack. "We were together all our lives. If you count thinking...
...Civil War sent him into fits of melancholia. But he always climbed out and tried again. He did something. That is not the least of the characteristics that kept Richard Nixon at the center of our political life for nearly 40 years. Even today he runs a kind of shadow presidency that speaks with the tempering that has come from defeat after defeat but still endures, urging the likes of Shultz to come back stronger after each rebuff...
...spends his time grumbling about his wife's bourgeois taste in furniture. The coincidence of husband and father immobilized by idealism gone stale is interesting. But in the end it hurts a novel in which there is no adult male with substance enough to cast a shadow. This is true even for minor characters; an interracial couple friendly to Jessie and Carll consists of a black wife who is a shrewd, forceful lawyer and a white husband so nearly nondescript as to be invisible...