Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opposed by his subject and restricted by the courts, Ian Hamilton has still produced a canny, engaging biography of J. D. Salinger...
Noting that 40% of the disputed manuscript's pages contained quoted and paraphrased materials, Copyright Lawyer Roger Zissu sees a more limited peril. "Most historians and biographers don't write books that are that dependent on the subject's correspondence," says Zissu, who was not involved in the case but who successfully represented Gerald Ford's publishers when they sued the Nation magazine for printing key excerpts from the former President's unpublished memoirs...
...there he is, wanting to be left alone, and he isn't being left alone, and this is partly because of me." If he had known the outcome, would Hamilton have written about Salinger? "No," he says emphatically. How does he feel about writing other biographies? "Extremely reluctant. The subject would have to be very, very dead...
...warfare in the executive suites. Longtime employees suddenly thrown into the street. An emotional battle for the very soul of an institution. The biggest headlines at CBS News over the past few years seem to have originated mostly behind the cameras. No company's inside gossip has been the subject of more outside scrutiny than that of CBS, and the result has been a small library of books on the network's inner workings. Few, however, have offered harsher indictments than two new releases that try to affix blame for the turmoil and shifting priorities at TV's most prestigious...
Previewing the summit in Moscow, Reagan said he hoped more progress can be made in the area of human rights, and that the Kremlin still has not lived up to promises made in the Helsinki accords on that subject...