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This is at least the fourth biography of Hearst and is far and away the best. Given access to Hearst's correspondence with his editors and his family, Nasaw has used the raw material brilliantly to paint a richly textured picture of the man who for decades did so much to shape political debate...
...always had giant brick-and-mortar factories close to the source of raw materials or communication," says Richard Morley, one of America's leading manufacturing experts. "This kind of technology means we can manufacture at the point of consumption...
...considered possibilities (raw-meat sandwiches?), a little voice piped up from the backseat. "Do you know what I want for my birthday?" Having forgotten exactly who remained in the car, I fell back on a generic response: "Chocolate cake, pink-frosting flowers and a personalized birthday serenade from a famous teenybopper-heartthrob band?" The voice replied, "No, I want to stay home and play with friends in the backyard...
This means kids spend more time in after-school programs and less time riding bikes aimlessly in the neighborhood, more hours on the soccer field and fewer listening to dinner-table criticism about how bolting down those raw-meat sandwiches makes you look like a wild animal...
...first to trace the Rodhams back to a "raw and sparse" life in Scranton, Pa., where Hillary's grandfather worked 16-hour days in a lace factory and most of his relatives were "exhausted laborers, blistered farmers...drab loners, prudish spinsters, lonely bachelors, and sad drinkers." Her great-uncle George Beale Rodham was "an aberration in a family of underachievers," a second-tier political boss. The author suggests she inherited her skills from him. Other Rodhams ran "a fleabag hotel and a beer-and-gin-joint...in the heart of Scranton's infamous red-light district...