Word: authored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South has not given up on Carter. It has simply become more critically observant. James David Barber, author of The Presidential Character and a Duke University political science professor, believes that recent events may finally have caused a "restoration of leadership" in the White House. Says he: "The follow-up is going to be everything...
THEODORE WHITE, author: Senator Pat Moynihan in the sense that he led an internal revolt against the dominant, the liberal tradition of the U.S. And Ralph Nader is a leader. He called the corporations to account. Ben Bradlee has been the supreme iconoclast of American journalists. He'd expose his own mother. He and Abe Rosenthal [executive editor of the New York Times] changed the course of American journalism. I'd also add CBS Producer Don Hewitt (60 Minutes) because he made reality exciting...
...surprisingly low. Most valuations of the dynasty's holdings were between $500 million and $1 billion; they included Nicaragua's national air line, Lanica, its major shipping company, the Mamenic Line, perhaps 25% of its best farm land, and an array of other enterprises. Says Richard Millett, author of The Guardians of the Dynasty, a highly critical account of the Somoza family: "It was hard to find any aspect of the economy in which they were not deeply entrenched...
Living in the Maniototo deals with the past and what the author cryptically labels the "Present Historic." It is a tense that allows hallucination to mingle with reality. A man is attacked by a detergent: "There was a flash of light, a smell of laundry and the penetrating fumes of a powerful cleanser, then a neutral nothing-smell, not even the usual substituted forest glade or field of lavender or carnation, and all that remained of Tommy were two faded footprints on the floor...
...Energy Project, directed by Robert B. Stobaugh, professor of Business Administration, and Daniel Yergin, lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government and author of the Cold War study "Shattered Peace," was established...