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...than Porter's, is also a lot more fun to read. One section quotes Robert Frost: "Take care to sell your horse be fore he dies. The art of life is passing losses on." The book is well indexed, cross-referenced and divided into discrete subject areas; each chapter assumes the reader has not read the others. Quinn covers the usual ground of budgeting, investing, saving, home buying, divorce and burial. Her 101 pages on life insurance are especially valuable. The Newsweek columnist and television reporter analyzes and compares the bewildering array of policies and options. Term insurance...
...vignettes of battle scenes-half-crazed English soldiers fighting naked at Agincourt, defeated German troops stumbling drunkenly from the First Marne-are as telling as his descriptions of the pettifoggery, vanity and incompetence of commanders and politicians. Together with an introductory section recapitulating ancient wars and a final chapter previewing the next (and last), Humble incisively analyzes 18 great victories from the day of the longbow to the era of the missile. The book is superbly illustrated, with excellent battlefield maps...
John Irving, a best-selling novelist, read the fifth chapter of his fifth novel, "The Hotel New Hampshire," to a crowd of about 150 at Adams House last night...
Irving likes to read from his most recent chapter-in-progress because "it's boring to read finished works--they're a dead issue. There's a different kind of self awareness that you get when you read to an audience than when you read to an old friend or your kids," he added...
...years were John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson and Chester Arthur all raised to power by the death of a President, thus lacking the party loyalty that elected incumbents usually acquire. So if Kennedy does take the nomination away from Carter, it will be quite an extraordinary chapter in the thin annals of presidential denial...