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Which is not to say there has been no controversy. Daniel has been in the journalism business since the age of 14, when he began writing for a small paper in his hometown of Zebulon. North Carolina. He moved up to write for the Associated Press and then to the New York Times. His career has also included television and radio appearances, but he says his heart has always been in newspaper journalism...
Daniel has no regret about the way his book turned out; it is exactly what he intended to write. "In the newspaper business it's your duty--your job--to meet interesting people and write about them," he says. "But people think that anyone who has been managing editor of the New York Times must have something portentous and pompous to say. I may be portentous and pompous, but I don't want to write that...
Most of the anecdotes are quite interesting even fascinating and there is hardly a person more qualified than Daniel to write such a book. Through both his personal life (especially as Truman's son-in-law) and his professional he covered events ranging from World War II to Watergate he has met more dignitaries than most people care even to hear about. He capitalizes on this background, going out to his way to avoid writing the type of book you would expect from the former managing editor of the Times. He writes not of the inner-workings of the great...
...What stood out [with the nuclear study] was the attempt by the University to write a study relevant to an ongoing policy issue of national importance--to be on the front burner," Blumenthal said...
...whole world has not been waiting for an answer, to be sure, but here it is anyhow. Seven years in the making (the same length of time it took Joyce to write the book), this new edition of Ulysses has been painstakingly reconstructed, with the aid of a computer, from all of the surviving documents of composition. It rectifies some 5,000 gaffes in previous publications of the novel...