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...opposite number Yuli Kvitsinsk, would have "traded" deployment of the Pershing lls for a significant reduction of the SS-20s. Talbott describes with withering sarcasm the process by which the Administration repudiated Nitze's action, seeming to put the onus for stalemate on Washington. But he ends his chapter lamely with this...
...once again Talbott launches into a wholesale trashing of the Administration's approach. Apparently these Soviet advantages in the most volatile of nuclear weapons--land-based." MIR Veo ICBMs--mean nothing to Talbott after his highly intelligent opening chapter...
DIVIDED INTO chapters on individual "writers," including excerpts from their work, the book parodies everyone from Helen of Troy to Helen Gurley Brown to Anais Nin (who becomes "Anais Zit"), spearing Truman Capote and Norman Mailer '43 along the way. But the barbs aren't just aimed at writers; writers are the convenient vehicle to get to the heart of society itself--and in particular men and women and sex. After all, two of the authors say, "the main motivating force in everyone's life is sex." But about politics--don't satirists have to have politics? Consider, however, these...
Fraser scrupulously includes a chronology of important events to help those readers unfamiliar with that period in British history. But even for those without any history background, each chapter provides enough information to stand on its own for the average reader...
...Putting Cruelty First," the title of Chapter One, provides us with Shklar's point of departure. Cruelty, the mother of Shklar's analysis, nurses some more ordinary foibles--hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal and misanthropy. But in a discussion of politics and character, we must begin with the worst. "What we hate," Montaigne said of cruelty, "we take seriously...