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...cover image was Stern at its low-down best: a man in a black gangster-style fedora aiming a gun out toward the reader. Inside the West German photoweekly was a pulse-quickening tale of intrigue: clandestine meetings of unrepentant Nazis, secret trips across a Communist border, bags of money tossed from one speeding car to another. What made Stern's investigation so notable, however, was that the magazine exposed its own management's gullibility in what it labeled "the biggest flop of German press history": the purchase, for $3.8 million, and publication of forged diaries purportedly written...
...course, sections rarely in use should not be discarded. Even books that have not been charged out recently (or ever) are useful. Many no doubt, are consulted but not checked out, and others may prove valuable to some reader in half a century...
...reader should know immediately that Beeler had nothing to do with the fire that destroyed Bullard's hardware store, and that Bullard was not responsible for the explosion under the hood of Beeler's car. Another important fact is that there is no full-dress feud in The Feud. Beeler and Bullard are soon out of the picture, one with a fatal heart attack and the other with a nervous breakdown. But these misfortunes set in motion a series of coincidences and events...
Most of Reich's suggestions are rooted in reality, and he is scrupulous about offering contingency plans. But throughout the book the reader is left with the feeling that the vision's cornerstone--that national consensus--will never come to pass. Without a mandate to clear the board and start afresh, that evil word in the world of economic policy, politics, will rear its nasty partisan head. With a theory that depends so much on cooperation and compromise, one side holding back could make the whole structure disintegrate. And while the Democrats can praise Reich's book and use some...
...King John echoes through the literary works of grieving authors, from John Gunther's Death Be Not Proud (1953) to Mary-Lou Weisman's Intensive Care: A Family Love Story (1982). Books about children struck down by disease seem to constitute a genre; by now the reader should be inured. Yet some of those memoirs still have the power to move...