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...Unfortunately we have elected ourselves four more years of war, favoritism to the few, administrative stranglehold on our Judicial Branch and dictatorial leadership. If Congress is to balance the lopsided Government, it will be done only when some future President exercises insight and humility enough to give Congress back its power...
...making exaggerated claims?a refreshing change in style for U.S. rhetoric. In his eloquent press briefing (see page 13), Henry Kissinger remarked that "it should be clear by now that no one in the war has had a monopoly of anguish and that no one has a monopoly of insight." It is a recognition of the fact that in the future the U.S. will have to adopt a more modest posture before the complex processes of history, to refrain from trying to remake the world in its own image, to learn to live with evils that cannot be removed...
...remember the judge's pronouncement at that time: Hoffa, the court declared, was guilty of "having tampered, really, with the very soul of the nation." Yet The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa is not at all a polemic. Rather it is a bulging catalogue of fact and insight that is altogether persuasive...
...YEARS OF CHINA watching preceded Barbara Tuchman's six week visit to China in the summer of 1972. Behind her were two Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent for Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945. Her authority as a pre-communist China expert lend weight to her insight into the tenacious Chinese riddle and she agreed to record her observations and impressions for the Associated Press and Harper's magazine. Notes From China consists of these and another previously published essay, the speculative "It Mao Had Come to Washington...
...cover nine topics ranging freely from keeping the revolution red to keeping the countryside green. The essays flow smoothly from one to another, together they form a cohesive work, filled with perceptive observations. But as a collection, they assume a greater purpose. She gropes for that single flash of insight that would make sense of the rhetoric and the horror stories that filter through Hong Kong to Sunday supplements of American newspapers, that frighten many Americans and bewilder the rest. That flash of insight is absent...