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...SMITH READER Edited by Dave Anderson Random House; 308 pages...
...along with his press card, a reporter receives "a license to penetrate and intrude into the private lives and rituals of all the people of the earth." And that is what he spent most of this time doing. He "intruded" throughout Europe for 15 years, and he takes the reader on a highlighted tour of the continent. In Tangiers, he tried marijuana at the Casbali, the famous Morrocean sector of the city. He led one of the first camera crews to explore the abandoned French prison on Devils Island. And MacNeil single-handedly brought American television the facts behind...
...notion that his parents "might have engaged in marital recriminations in front of staff and aides is totally inconsistent with their semi-Victorian upbringing and their personal reticences." The letters exchanged between Eleanor and Lash, he says, accurately reflect the innocent nature of their unusual friendship. Here, the reader is the jury. The old Roosevelt haters who recall her muzzy newspaper columns and his years of autocratic rule will believe the worst. But those who see in E.R. a complex, endlessly charitable woman can only answer with more charity...
Mother & Daughter, a selection of the letters of Eleanor and her oldest child Anna, is a book whose surprises are more quiet, but a reader who has become fascinated by E.R. will not want to miss it. The collection traces a warm relationship, though Anna was aware that her mother did not always comprehend human weaknesses, and utterly failed to understand, for instance, why F.D.R., during World War II, insisted on having a 20-minute cocktail break before dinner. But there was no pomposity to this doer of what Lash, quoting George Eliot, calls "deeds of daring rectitude." Anna recalled...
...mother from Nevada: "I gave birth to a Down's-syndrome baby and have been hunting [for God] ever since. You were the person to express to me that I have a right to feel anger. Maybe now I can believe in a more realistic God." Wrote a reader in Pennsylvania: "I wish I had had your book 20 years ago. I offer you my agreement and thanks...