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...dullness of the writing they demanded in those years." He switched to magazine writing and quickly made a name for himself as a practitioner of the so-called "new journalism" - highly interpretive reporting enlivened with plenty of descriptive personal detail. His gossipy profile of Times Managing Editor Clifton Daniel in Esquire became the talk of the publishing world. And thus began his backbreaking task of researching and writing the new-journalism version of the history of the Times...
Throughout the narrative, Talese analyzes the ambitions and anxieties of figures high and low in the Times hierarchy. Managing Editor Clifton Daniel's fortunes have declined under Punch, Talese figures, but the publisher's cousin, John Oakes, editor of the editorial page, remains in favor, "attacking issues with an aggressiveness that Adolph Ochs would have never tolerated, and sniping at important people once regarded within the Times as 'sacred cows.'" Oakes, says Talese, enjoys controversy and has "what amounts to total freedom" to provoke...
...Dallas confusion, the White House "bagman"-the officer who carries the codes for nuclear attack-was at one point nowhere to be found. "As the clock hung silent, the United States of America stood, for a little time, naked." This is nonsense. Kennedy's military aide, Ted Clifton, knew where the bagman was and where Johnson was. And Bishop's statement to the contrary, Johnson had certainly been briefed at least twice on the use of the nuclear emergency system. Clifton, who established communication with the White House, was also in continuous touch with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara...
...Marines, and now seeks security in a job that requires no college degree. Often he aims to live far from the inner city-a lower-middle-class aspiration that produces white commuter cops who nervously regard black-ghetto patrols as raids behind enemy lines. According to Chicago Psychiatrist Clifton Rhead, a policeman needs distinct traits-a tendency to be suspicious, act fast, take risks, be aggressive and obey authority...
...Clifton Rhead, a member of the Chicago Police Psychiatric Board, believes that an effective policeman has, among other traits, "suspiciousness, aggressiveness, a tendency to act on impulse, a readiness to take risks, a strong sense of right and wrong and an absence of inhibitions that would make a man freeze in certain situations." These qualities can "break through" during violent scenes such as those in Chicago two weeks...