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...Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt, each bearing on his shoulders the burden of a nation in dire peril, should be forced by the Victorian ethic to forgo the solace of a good cry. And then there was General George Washington at Valley Forge, who reportedly cried as seldom as he lied...
Richard Powers, 34, is the reclusive author of two earlier highly praised novels, Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985) and Prisoner's Dilemma (1988). His work on The Gold Bug Variations, which began in 1986, was aided by a 1989 MacArthur Foundation "genius fellowship." Seldom photographed or interviewed, he put himself on display during a brief prepublication visit to his native U.S. -- he was born and raised in the Midwest -- before returning to the Netherlands, where he has lived for the past five or so years. He says his brush with publicity was less painful than...
...fortunately, we've seldom had to go that long. Ten years after the Revolution, there was Shay's Rebellion, in which poor farmers challenged the new Republic's monied elite. In the 1820s and '30s, there was the Workingmen's Movement, pitted against the evils of "kingcraft, priestcraft and lawyercraft." That fed into the abolition movement, which in turn helped launch the women's suffrage movement in 1848. Near the turn of the century, there was the middle-class Progressive Movement for civic reform and a near insurrection by the new industrial working class. In our own time...
...expand to cover other important elements, such as the contributions of African Americans, Asian Americans and Hispanics. For example, in telling of building the transcontinental railroad, the contributions of Irish and Chinese laborers were for many years ignored. The Asian contributions to early California agriculture are very seldom mentioned. Some people may fear that more attention on minority groups may have the effect of dividing people. But in a complex society, there are many different elements, and we should view this as a unique opportunity to build strength for the whole...
WOODY ALLEN by Eric Lax (Knopf; $24). Seldom is heard an embarrassing word, but this biography gets its facts straight and -- in something of a literary coup -- reaps the benefits of its subject's cooperation. Now if Woody Allen would only consent to tell this story...