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These changes have also rendered the traditional campaign tome largely obsolete. With tempestuous demographic and geographic upheavals in progress--i.e. Jesse Jackson, Gary Hart, the fundamentalist Right, the Sun Belt majority--campaigns today are roughly analogous to surfing. Catch your demographic wave and hang on for the ride. The story of the Hart campaign was not how he won the New Hampshire primary, but how he failed to take advantage of the electoral groundswell in his favor. The story of Alan Cranston's failure was not his ridiculous one-note (later two-note) campaign, but the utter lack...
...anything raunchier and more explicit than Williams' own, and without footnotes or explanation of sources, some of his anecdotes about the peccadilloes of the famous seem too bad to be true. Beguiling as gossip, Rader's book has none of the inclusiveness or gravamen of Spoto's tome. But it has one crucial advantage: Rader genuinely liked Williams, and the reader can understand...
Nordhaus, who studied under Samuelson, at first felt handicapped by his reverence for the tome. Says he: "It was like trying to revise the King James Bible." One major change is a greater emphasis on monetary policy's role in controlling the economy. Earlier editions held the Keynesian view that federal spending policy was more important. The new version pays great attention to interest-rate policy and the role of the Federal Reserve Board...
...thin tome lays out the creationist views in the form of stories a father beetle tells his son Bomby about the ways of the bombardier family. The text is peppered with scientific terms like amino acids and catalase, but it is so riddled with errors that entomologists cannot begin to guess where Rue got her information. (For example, the beetles do not spray their eggs with tear gas for protection, as the author maintains.) Biologist Thomas Eisner of Cornell University, one of the world's leading bombardier experts, says of the book, "I've never seen anything like...
...most prolific author. For the time being, Isaac Asimov is in no danger of losing his title. The Russian-born writer was in New York City last week to celebrate the publication of his 300th volume, named, appropriately enough, Opus 300. An anthology of his previous 99, the tome covers a galaxy of topics, including the Moral Majority, mysteries, robots, computers, astronomy, physics, genetics, and erotic limericks, to name just a few. Asimov, 64, is happy to share the secret of his industry: "The process of writing is fun. This is all I ask." Will there be an Opus...