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...School yesterday announced the appointment of its first Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow, inaugurating a two-year program designed to promote diversity within the law teaching profession...
Volcano Lover: A Romance, Sontag's first book in 25 years, focuses on Sir William Hamilton (Sontag calls him the Cavaliere throughout the book). Cavaliere is the British ambassador to Naples, a rabid collector of potpourri and vulcanist who married his first wife Catherine for money. After Catherine's death, the Cavaliere falls in love with Emma; through a strange twist, however, she turns around and finds love in a young British admiral...
...historical novel based on an 18th century love affair between Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson seems an unlikely subject for Susan Sontag. But the essayist, cultural critics and author of the famous "Notes on Camp" and the 1969 book Styles of Radical Will has recently written a historical novel of ideas...
...Sontag of the 60's was an observer and analyst of the avant-garde, a cultural critic that showed us ourselves. She always learned toward the esoteric. Who would have guessed a generation of trendy academics would make the formerly well-known story of Sir William Hamilton obscure...
...attack on politicians is misguided when it focuses on the political operator's hedging or hesitating ways. George Washington stalled and twisted to wrest compromise from his Secretaries of State (Jefferson) and the Treasury (Hamilton). Franklin Roosevelt saved capitalism under a cover of anticapitalist rhetoric. Dwight Eisenhower, under a bland exterior, conducted what historian Fred Greenstein calls a hidden-hand presidency. Other Presidents -- from Woodrow Wilson to Jimmy Carter -- were unsuccessful because they were not politicians, were not sufficiently able to bend themselves in order to bend others...