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There was a satisfying airport paperback, with pink cover and gold-embossed lettering for the title, to be written about Blue. Where is Judith Krantz, the reader muses, when we need her? And never mind that the Jacob King figure is an obvious sketch of the real-life mobster Bugsy Siegel and that since everyone knows that Siegel was murdered, there isn't a lot of suspense to be generated about whether King will live to collect Social Security. Blue is a good, tough, hard-edged character ("she only cries on cue," someone says of her), and a straight-ahead...
After that, Aubrey simply disappears, though Nathan believes he sometimes sees him, usually at funerals. The rest of In the Tennessee Country follows Nathan's adult life. Though Trudie wanted him to become an artist, he settles for being an art historian, and Taylor makes an elegant sketch of the bramble of academic politics. On his retirement, Nathan becomes preoccupied with Aubrey to the degree that his son Brax, who really is a painter, becomes bored and annoyed. It is Brax who finds Aubrey, now a dying ancient, and Brax who chooses finally to follow his path and live...
...Senators sketch a deal, but it's far short of Clinton's hopes...
ENTOMBED WITH GOLD AND silver symbols of spiritual and temporal power, the Moche rulers of ancient Peru took their treasures, and their secrets, to the grave. Archaeologists studying extant murals, metalworks and ceramics could sketch an inexact portrait of the pre-Incan civilization that vanished around A.D. 800, but they were frustrated by the many remaining blank spaces. The absence of a written language meant there was no sure guide to lead them back to the lost culture...
...without a timely, common cause, neither leader nor followers will affect history, for good or ill. Wills describes 16 people in 16 different fields, from Mary Baker Eddy (church) to Ross Perot (business), who have succeeded in directing followers to a common end. Each chapter includes a sketch of what Wills calls "antitypes" -- that is, would-be leaders who for one reason or another failed to truly lead...