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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There have been several such changes in strategy--though none quite so dramatic--since 1972, when Harry Parker coached a heavyweight beat with six of nine oarsmen from Harvard to second place in Germany. Every year since, almost all of the nine have reassembled in Cambridge for another shot at rowing glory in the Head of the Charles Regatta...
...each of 11 chapters, he outlines the post-World War Two history of an Asian nation. A longtime writer for The New Yorker, Shaplen's chapters are in-depth articles, examining phases of development within the context of the author's experiences. The author knows his story well, though he explains events and people in almost frustrating detail at times...
...involvement in Watergate. Helms says Nixon fired him in 1973 and banished him to Iran (as ambassador) because the President was furious when Helms refused to enlist the CIA in the Watergate cover-up. The CIA was not directly behind the break-in (though some who were had worked for the Agency), says Helms, and the facts seem to back...
...primary rationalization behind the CIA's illegal activities--"the Russians do it too, and worse, so we have to respond"--all but disintegrated. Agency men resorted to another: "We were just following orders." Though Helms and others declined to implicate the chief executives in the most sensitive operations--for example. John F. Kennedy '40 in the attempts out Fidel Castro's life--the message was clear: the CIA was not, in Frank Church's phrase, "a rogue elephant rampaging out of control." The orders had to come from somewhere...
Thomas McMahon choose less domineering figures to make his entrance into historical fiction. McKay himself, the owner of the bees, was a contemporary of this crowd, though not of the same public stature, in fact, very little has been written about him: he made a fortune in shoe-manufacturing, and the Pusey Library archives hold a slim volume on the gigantic endowments he left to Harvard. Though he arrives at his true life circumstances by the end of the novel, McKay first undertakes a long fictional journey to Kansas and back. McMahon has given him depth, complicated his life...