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Soon American Jewish publications began to take a friendly line. At a meeting in Denver in June, the editors of most of America's 130-odd Jewish weeklies adopted a resolution congratulating Begin on his election. The Los Angeles B'nai B'rith Messenger described him as...
"Travel," Lawrence Durrell once wrote, "can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection." It is an elegant thought. Aside from fiction, travel is also Durrell's chief literary racket, and he is wonderful at it. His travel books arrive like long letters from a civilized and very...
Nixon was certainly a worthy target on which to vent such feelings, and while it is highly unusual to write history in terms of personal rage, Mee somehow seems to capture an underlying anger that conventional histories of the Watergate era miss. He relates a mood with an effectiveness that...
As Novelist Becker (The Keep, The Union) indicates in her first documentary book, the Baader-Meinhof group sprouted from the roots of German student protest against archaic regulations and extreme overcrowding in the universities. But after West Berlin police shot a student demonstrating against a visit by the Shah of...
The reason is plain: Some of the farthest-out pilgrims of the struggle keep crossing over from the worthy to the frivolous, from the serious to the preposterous. Granted, the main thrust to assure fair play for all Americans goes on as plausibly as ever, its partisans earnest, their issues...