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Thomas Keneally, 50, is an Australian novelist (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith), playwright (Bullie's House), screenwriter (Silver City) and movie actor (The Devil's Playground). The subjects of his nearly 20 books are equally protean: Joan of Arc, the U.S. Civil War battle at Antietam, World War I armistice negotiations, exploration in Antarctica. His 1982 volume, Schindler's List, set off a literary tempest: although it told of an actual German businessman who saved some 1,300 Jews from the Nazis, the book was awarded Britain's prestigious Booker McConnell prize for fiction, eligible apparently because Keneally used novelistic...
...Confederates. Thomas Keneally slides around discussions of institutional change while clinging to the basic currency of fiction--the individual. Though Keneally depicts many of the war's most studied battles, he resists the temptaion to offer an overview. He plants characters in the battle of Antietam, where America lost as many men in one day as it did during its whole engagement in Vietnam, but he describes the slaughter only from the perspectives of individual soldiers. While the authors of other recent, successful war novels, such as Shogun, Trinity, and War and Remembrance, use the biography of a central character...
...there is opportunity. While searching for a nuclear accommodation with the Soviet Union, the U.S. seems to be showing more understanding of our power, both military and economic. Holmes contended that character emerged from adversity, heroes from heroics. There are no more battles of Ball's Bluff or Antietam with trumpets and cannons, but it is a time for our own brand of heroics and heroes, men and women who in these next months can bring new and bold ideas to preserve peace even among contending societies in the nuclear...
...President laughed about Hood's boys at last getting a hot breakfast at Antietam when they were interrupted by a Union charge; they were so mad that they stopped the superior Yankee force in its tracks. Carter was tickled by the account of how the cannons at Antietam stirred up the hives of bees kept by the farmers. One Pennsylvania regiment had 127 bee stings. The President leaned on the bridge over Antietam Creek where General Burnside with four divisions had been stalled for hours by Robert Toombs with a few hundred of those beloved Georgian sharpshooters...
Jimmy Carter went back to Camp David that night a wiser man. He cannot plan the future from what he saw and felt last week at Gettysburg or Antietam. But he could not lead without...