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...death of a Brooklyn bookie and a volume on student unrest at Columbia in 1968. "You're better able to write about sports when you've covered the rest of the world," he says. "But I prefer athletes to politicians. They're more direct and less devious." His next book, due in the spring, will chronicle America's love for baseball, from the semi-pro Berkshire (Mass.) Brewers to a Little League team in Puerto Rico...
...Friars-- They had the Holy Father out there as well as the team. We felt like we were right in the middle of an Irish rebellion. Providence brings in all those Irish imports so I think that our best chance would be an IRA rebellion. It appeals to my devious nature to unite with the IRA. I'd call Kennedy but I don't know whether he'd be sympathetic. I'm told there used to be a law on the books in this state that said that no one from Rhode Island could enter Massachusetts. Well, they repealed...
Barber does not scoff at any detail. He believes everything about a man is revealing-the veins in his forehead, his eyelids, his hands, his body language. This week Barber is pondering how inspiring, articulate, wordy, clever, devious, plain-spoken and hesitant each man emerged. Most important to Barber is how the substance of what Ford and Carter said relates to their pasts. What Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter promise for America is apt to evolve in some proportion to how firmly these ideas are rooted in their lives...
THERE ARE ALSO more subtle attitudes at work in The Canfield Decision and The Company. For instance, Agnew's portrayal of Canfield makes him out to be similar to Henry II in his relationship to the assassination of Thomas a Becket. Canfield joins forces with certain devious elements, but only involuntarily at first and eventually in an indirect way. According to the evidence in the book, Canfield is guilty of lesser crimes than those with which he's finally charged. He's only guilty of misfeasance, not malfeasance (though he can't prove it because important witnesses have disappeared...
...seems to say, but he is also working in the best interests of The Company (and thus, of the U.S.), he's trying to preserve former President Curry's high standing for posterity, and he's fighting White House dirty tricksters who want to use his secret info in devious ways...