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...called a plot-seems better suited to one of Harold Robbins' meat operas than to the work of a man who once won the National Book Award (for Steps) and who is now a professor of prose and criticism at Yale. Kosinski's hero, Jonathan Whalen, is sole heir to one of the nation's great industrial fortunes, and to a remarkably ordinary set of psychological wounds. Whalen's father, a tycoon now dead, gave his son insufficient attention, and seems thereby to be the villain of the story-unless the villain is the new industrial...
...system. "That report might have had some credibility two years ago, but not today," says Yellowstone Superintendent Jack Anderson. Take Yosemite, once the most troubled park of all. In 1970 the lovely, steep-walled valley was choked with auto exhaust and campfire smoke, and so overcrowded, says Ranger Bill Whalen, that "camping was tent-peg to tent-peg." Long-haired kids noisily sought kicks from nature-with a little help from drugs. On July 4, 1970, pot-smoking youths clashed with armed police in the first riot ever in a national park. In Washington, the National Park Service reacted...
...People are going through a period of desolation," says Dr. Edward Whalen, staff psychiatrist at the county mental health center. "The number of people seeking help doubled in the fifth week after the flood. One man finished all the cleaning, then sat in front of his house for three days with the hose in his hand, not moving. His wife brought him in and he's functioning now." So far, five valley residents have committed suicide because of the flood...
...other areas Whalen discovered-apparently to his surprise-that Nixon was more interested in getting elected than in promoting any consistent creed. Whalen wanted, for example, to replace the giveaway programs of the Great Society with the promise of a more open society; that is, Nixon would help blacks gain entrance to lily-white suburbs. Nixon responded with a noncommittal silence. "I could no longer find phrases to express Nixon because I could not find him," writes Whalen...
...Whalen found himself shouldered aside by the more obliging .men around Nixon, one of whom lectured him: "The trouble with you, Dick, is that you care too much." Indeed, Whalen cared enough to quit before the election and then to write this account of his ordeal of near power-not without a touch of vindictiveness against the man who let him down. As Whalen puts it: "Nixon's worst enemies have nothing to say about him so damaging as the observations of hurt, puzzled friends...