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...will. In Diplomacy (Simon & Schuster; 912 pages; $35), a sweeping portrayal of historical forces that begins with Cardinal Richelieu and ends with the challenges facing the world today, Kissinger makes the most forceful case by any American statesman since Theodore Roosevelt for the role of realism and its Prussian-accented cousin realpolitik in international affairs. Just as Kennan's odd admixture of romanticism and realism helped shape American attitudes at the outset of the cold war, Kissinger's emphasis on national interests rather than moral sentiments defines a framework for ^ dealing with the multipolar world now emerging. He has produced...
...Roberta Simon was eight years old when poliomyelitis paralyzed her from the neck down. She spent three months on her back in a Washington hospital and then began a long series of treatments and exercises that slowly, painfully restored full mobility to her limbs. Like many brave polio victims, she pushed herself hard. She was a majorette in junior high school, went to college and eventually became a surgical nurse in a Chicago-area hospital, working long hours on her feet in the operating room. "I was out there doing my thing," she says. "I thought I was over polio...
...disease disrupted her childhood, she felt some familiar symptoms. They started as muscle fatigue, weakness and pain. Then her legs collapsed under her, and she had to lean against walls to stand up straight. She went to specialists and took test after test. "They all came back negative," says Simon. "One doctor thought I was mentally ill and sent me to a psychotherapist." Finally, four years later, Simon was correctly diagnosed. She had polio. Again...
...case in point is British historian Hugh Thomas. With Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico (Simon and Schuster; 812 pages; $30), Lord Thomas, author of what is arguably the finest study in English of the Spanish Civil War, has taken the heady risk of challenging a landmark of 19th century American historiography: William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843). Thomas' account is richer in detail than Prescott's, more balanced in its assessment of the Mexica (pronounced mesheeca; the author insists that this is a more authentic name for the conquered people than...
Particularly wonderful is the all-too-brief treatment of the love affair between Gareth (Simon Callow of "A Room with a View") and Matthew (John Hannah in his screen debut). Hannah's reading of W.H. Auden's great love poem, "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" at Gareth's funeral is one of the most poignant moments ever captured on celluloid...