Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thighs, or smell the stench of a sodden bear. This extraordinary ability to evoke physical detail carries the book to whatever success it has. Where the author seems weak is in the sentimentality of his conceptions. These shape what is not meant to be a children's tale into a kind of pretentious adolescent bluff: a tragic chronicle of conquest, corruption and decline that dribbles off into happily-ever-after...
...liked to say of the Nixontan criminals who appeared in his two Watergate articles for The Atlantic--"people who commit politics." Higgins focuses on Congressional aide Hank Cavanaugh, a peripheral figure to the bigger, surrounding story of the '76 Democratic pre-convention campaign. Higgins is telling a tale of action from the view of a man with little room to act, a man like Eddie Coyle and Jackie Cogan of the earlier novels. The crime novels never showed the big bosses; A City on a Hill never directly presents the man Cavanaugh's boss wants to make president. Keeping within...
...book suffers from one major problem of translation--not of the text itself, but of the wider context of the story. Few readers here will be able to fit this tale into any familiar setting--Norway is just too far away, as is the rural life Anna depicts...
...while Anna is no Nordic fairy tale, it isn't social history either. Gronoset has kept his editorial intrusions to a minimum, and so the book reads more like fiction than journalism. Anna is her own story, and not of the world around her. It demands the reader's sympathy, not for Anna's sufferings, but for her attempts to live life fully and well...
...million Governor's mansion that was started by his predecessor. Instead, he lives in a modest Sacramento apartment and pays the $250-a-month rent out of his own pocket. Gifts are invariably returned to the sender: a gold pass to Disneyland, a copy of The Tale of Peter Rabbit in Latin. Brown even rejected a volume commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Los Angeles Music Center, a gift from Buff Chandler, matriarch of the politically powerful family that publishes the Los Angeles Times. With that, his father, former Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, complained, "Jerry goes...