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...Shana L. Birnbaum '94 tries to explain the gender gap in war polls, saying, "I think women are inherently more peaceful and try to work things...
Industry insiders speculated that Joni Evans, 48, had been fired because of disappointing sales for several recent Random House books, among them Donald Trump's Surviving at the Top and Shana Alexander's biography of Bess Myerson, When She Was Bad. The principals denied that scenario: Random House expects to have "a record year in profits" Vitale said, with 18 best sellers. Friends say Evans felt crushed under the administrative responsibilities of her job and wanted to return to editing. She not only will continue at Random House but will have the cachet of her own imprint...
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...Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, walker of Mayor Ed Koch, candidate for U.S. Senate, she fell from grace with a thud. Although the ending of the Bess Mess is known -- she was acquitted of bribery charges stemming from her affair with a married man -- it is a tribute to Shana Alexander's storytelling that the reader believes at points along the way that Myerson and those around her could be spared the sorrow that ultimately engulfs them...
Philip Roth's new novel Deception is an eavesdropper's fantasy. -- Shana Alexander's When She Was Bad recounts Bess Myerson's fall from grace...