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...training, Goodwin read books on psychiatry and recounted the episodes of his diary to friends who were psychiatrists. Goodwin claims that another Johnson aide, Bill Moyers, had the same misgivings and also consulted practicing psychiatrists. "In all cases," writes Goodwin, "the diagnosis was the same: we were describing a textbook case of paranoid disintegration, the eruption of long-suppressed irrationalities." Moyers has refused comment on Goodwin's account...
...raise $40 million for the Iacocca Institute, an industrial-policy center. Says he: "I'm going to try to be a cross between a savvy, street-smart guy and an elder statesman." In that sense, Talking Straight could turn out to be a future professor's best-selling textbook...
Among Hamilton's literary anecdotes is the story of the publishing house that missed landing The Catcher in the Rye when a vice president sent the manuscript to the textbook department because he had heard the story was about a preppie...
Agray and dreary rain was falling on Cambridge last night when the knock came at my door. Putting my textbook aside, I leapt to my feet and opened the door. "Yes?" I said...
Hachette joins a fast-growing list of foreign publishers operating in the U.S. Just last February, Britain's Pearson paid $283 million to take over Addison-Wesley, a Massachusetts-based textbook maker. As the buyouts continue, U.S. publishing may become increasingly like its European counterpart, an industry that is dominated by a few behemoths...