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...events, makes cogent analysis of complex issues quite difficult: Imagine reading John Reed's The Ten Days That Shook the World without knowing Reed's support for Lenin. Unfortunately the biases of some modern historians are not as well known as those of Reed. Wouldn't people read William Shawcross' book, Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia--and especially the section where he places the ultimate responsibility for the Cambodian tragedy directly upon the United States--more closely if they knew that he had stated, on the record, that he didn't think a leftist movement could...
Sideshow, augmented by a substantial number of government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, carefully delineates the devious (and perhaps even unconstitutional) machinations of Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. Shawcross traces the course of events which led to Cambodia's downfall in 1975, and concludes with his analysis of the reasons leading to the massive brutalities committed under...
...senior editor, leaves the Atlantic with four National Magazine Awards (1971-73 and 1979) and its highest circulation ever (351,000). Whitworth will not assume full control of the Atlantic until next spring. But Zuckerman already plans to add popular Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman and British Journalist William Shawcross as contributors. Science Essayist Lewis Thomas and London Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans have been signed as senior advisory editors...
...When Shawcross spoke this week to a crowd at the Kennedy School, a few in the audience nodded off, bored by the author's lengthy textual analysis of White House Years. If Shawcross displayed his wit at times, there was none of the emotion that the crowd had come to see. Shawcross read whole passages, compared them to others and concluded that Kissinger doesn't always tell the truth. Kissinger, his speech told us, is a target it will take more than one Sideshow to uncover. Shawcross realizes this and he goes about his task ponderously, like a coach looking...
...frustrating task, for Shawcross has seen the American system at its most perverted. Willie Shawcross went to Washington and to Phnom Penh as an outsider, trying to find out what the hell was going on. Eight years later Shawcross has seen the guts of our political system turned inside out, pock-marked by the Cambodian experience and the work of some not-so-moral men. Shawcross has gone back to Washington to produce a series of long articles on the current situation in Cambodia for The Post; "it's hard to walk away from Cambodia," he admits. But the endless...