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...celebrate his victory in the hostile takeover battle for Trans World Airlines in August 1985, corporate raider Carl Icahn donned a pilot's cap and uniform jacket and paraded triumphantly around his Manhattan office. The parade didn't last long. Plagued by labor strife, mounting losses and bruising competition, TWA became more of a financial straitjacket for the erstwhile wizard than the trophy he had envisioned. In recent years, as he struggled to keep the now bankrupt carrier aloft, Icahn groped for a graceful way to bail out. Despite near frantic efforts, he was unable to find a willing buyer...
Shortly after that, Sulzberger had his only burst of rebellion, letting his hair grow long, wearing his father's old green Marine jacket on most occasions, and getting himself arrested in peace demonstrations. The second time, Sulzberger recalls, his father flew up to Boston to check up on "where I was, where was I going. His was never a heavy hand...
...blurbs on the back cover of The End of Equality ttry to paint Kaus' message as a radical departure from American political practice. Author Lawrence Mead goes so far as to name Kaus "the inventor of Civic Liberalism. "But despite the book-jacket bluster, Kaus' solution is as old as America itself. Alexis de Tocqueville considered strong civic ties to be the cornerstone of democracy, and the activists of the French Revolution even reorganized the calendar in order to squeeze class rivalry out of late-eighteenth-century society. Kaus' philosophy is nothing...
...Avery Corman's THE BIG HYPE (Simon & Schuster; $19), is a low-profile writer and family man transformed by a Manhattan show- business promoter into a national phenomenon. The money is swell, but Brock wants to cling to his artistic integrity as if it were an old sports jacket. Corman (Oh, God!) has a light comic touch that allows Brock to have it both ways and remain an appealing character. A bit of fantasy is also disarming. Corman works in guest appearances by film and literary stars, including the reclusive J.D. Salinger, who says, "Sometime when I'm in town...
...once the dust jacket gets it right: What It Takes "does for politicians what Tom Wolfe did for astronauts in The Right Stuff." Left unsaid -- and in this 1,047-page doorstop of an epic only the dust jacket is terse -- was precisely Wolfe's accomplishment in The Right Stuff. Wolfe took an event we all were certain we knew so well that it bored us to tears and convinced us that The Whole Thing Was a Lie. We had so internalized the public relations myths of the original Mercury astronauts that we had missed the real story...