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Grant was to die in 1885, of throat cancer, but in the agonizing process mustered his old soldier's strength and clarity of vision to produce his classic Memoirs. Mark Twain published them, and provided Julia Grant, finally, with security for life. True to Grant's own estimate of his accomplishment, the Memoirs do not mention the White House years. McFeely's own masterly work does, however, making those years and all the others in this stubborn striver's life a microcosm of the 19th century republic. Within it the biographer succeeds in making his flawed...
...Mark Twain If there is one political belief that Americans cherish as an article of faith, it is the belief that their system of constitutional Government is the best ever devised by the mind of man. Yet an increasing number of citizens seem to share a contradictory view-that the system is not working. The evidence takes diverse forms. There are widespread demands for several differing constitutional amendments. And after the usual blizzard of declarations that every ballot is crucial, only 53% of the eligible voters went to the polls last November, the fifth voting decline...
...valid literary observation into a broad cultural thesis. Nearly all modern literatures question the aims of money and power. But so, rightly or wrongly, do mod ern unions, consumer groups and havenots. Epstein leaves the impression that Americans are stewing in ambivalence because they have read Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Budd Schulberg. Publishing sales figures would not support such an impression...
...Found by Studs Terkel. The latest chorus of voices of hope and trouble, edited and affectionately arranged by the oral historian. Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin Kaplan. A thorough, artful analysis of the first all-American poet, by the author of the Pulitzer prizewinning Mister Clemens and Mark Twain...
East is east and west is west, as Kipling knew, but in Pennsylvania the twain meet regularly, in bitter contests for public office between politicians from Philadelphia and those from the Pittsburgh area. This year the prize is the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Richard Schweiker. The contestants are Democratic former Mayor Peter Flaherty, 55, of Pittsburgh and Republican former District Attorney Arlen Specter, 50, of Philadelphia...