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...TRANSFORMATION of one May Alto from dedicated mother, wife and all-round good citizen into ex-wife, extortionist and anti-heroine is the making of Bette Pesetsky's first novel. A wackily revisionist look at the state of the American Dream and the war of the sexes, Author From A Savage People tells its story with more than a modicum of wit, humor, and self-irony rather than self-pity. What is more, Pesetsky has enough nerve not to replace the little questions confronting the little man with the far trendier Big Answers...
...Kennedy revisionist, Garry Wills, argues that the extraordinary glamour and heightened expectations that Kennedy brought to the office have crippled all of his successors. They cannot compete with such a powerful myth. It is equally possible, of course, that Kennedy's successors simply do not measure up. Kennedy's was a mind with all of its windows open and a clear light passing through it. That has not been true of anyone who has sat in the place since...
Unlike previous Churchill biographies, notably last year's brisk Young Man in a Hurry by Ted Morgan, The Last Lion is especially rich in historical and social contexts. There are no loud revisionist notes in Manchester's harmonious reorchestration of his subject's first 58 years. He is the familiar Winnie who loved soldiering, political argument, the best wines and good English. He was a frequently absent though apparently constant husband to Clementine Hozier, whom he wed in 1908. The sexual adventurers in the family were his father and, especially, his mother, American-born
...best man at the Lennon-Ono wedding and rated a mention in Lennon's rocking celebration of that event, The Ballad of John and Yoko. Throughout The Love You Make, Brown studiously keeps himself in the background, while the Beatles are pushed forward into the glare of revisionist celebrity. The book is like a police lineup lit by limelight...
...Dunkirk in hopes of persuading them to make a separate peace. Both claims have been forcefully challenged by historians, who noted that on the very day that Hess arrived to propose a German-British pact, Hitler's Luftwaffe planes bombed London's Houses of Parliament. The revisionist versions in the diaries coincide with the Soviet version of World War II: an untrustworthy Britain, more at ease with fascism than with Communism, primed to betray its alliance with Stalin. On Saturday, however, the Soviet news agency TASS dismissed the diaries as "a dirty falsification" designed to promote fascism...