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...strained through the literary strictures of French neorealism-who infest European fiction. His name is Richard. He is a library archivist in charge of, yes, "fugitive and ephemeral materials." He is also the kind of man who will say, "Things are sometimes what they seem." But before the reader can begin to snarl or groan this incipient literary hedgehog changes into a devoted brother. His pretty sister Meg has just come home after twelve years in a mental hospital, and Richard seems pathetically ready to move heaven and earth to cajole her even one shuffling, painful step back toward...
Damning Evidence. Speaking as an advocate, St. Clair could hardly be expected to read evidence of wrongdoing into any Nixonian ambiguities. But many a reader of the transcripts did just that?and saw a record of presidential transgressions against both the letter and the spirit of the law. That...
...price of such relentless success appears when the reader learns that Andrews' wife, feeling that he no longer needed her, turned to drink. As a result she was a heavy liability to an ambitious man with a growing need for a presentable public partner. He secretly took a mistress. When the wife is eventually found dead, John Andrews is accused of murdering...
...highlight of the book is Andrews' testimony in his own defense at the trial. The alert reader will spot a small honorable lie that may or may not be only one of many. Like the impartial lawyer that he is, the narrator reserves comment as first the jury and then Andrews deliver separate, but mutually incompatible verdicts. That leaves the reader alone with the absorbing task of judging the life...
Role Playing. Such self-conscious role playing was the very fabric of Hitler's life, says Fest. The book, not surprisingly, often presents the Führer in the ebb and flow of rich personal melodrama. Early on, the reader meets the "idling student, promenading in Linz with his cane and kid gloves," and the proud, self-pitying, angry young would-be artist in Vienna, suing his dealer over an imagined embezzlement. After the abortive beer-hall putsch in Munich in 1923, Hitler scurries to safety-and to despairing Hamletesque thoughts of suicide. After he had won the Reich...