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...page opus that charts its subject's ! political journey from Sacramento to Washington. So why haven't you heard more about it? That's simple: the book was released barely a week before Kitty Kelley's hit-and-run job on Nancy Reagan. Cannon is upset that Simon & Schuster, publisher of both biographies, didn't live up to a verbal agreement to keep the release of the Kelley book separate from his own tome. After numerous leaks about the Kelley book's contents, the company moved up its publication date from May to early April without informing Cannon, he claims...
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...then come to imagine that all works of art carry sociopolitical messages the way brown bags carry sandwiches: open the flap and there they are. When one reads a cultural historian like Simon Schama reflecting on the art and society of 17th century Holland, one sees what deep access a contextual approach can give to culture. But this is a very far cry from the ritual indictments of the past on the grounds of racism, sexism, greed and so forth that increasingly substitute for thought among our academics. Lo, the Native American! See, he is depicted as dying! And note...
...comes Bob Woodward, the General Motors of journalistic authors, with his new book, The Commanders (Simon & Schuster; $24.95). This is not just another quickie. Fortified with an advance of undisclosed magnitude, Woodward and his researchers worked on the book for more than two years. They interviewed 400 anonymous sources and pored over piles of documents and notes. Yet the 398-page book is not what they had in mind when they began...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Paul Dovell, John Dragonetti, Paul Gettinger, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Mark P. Polomski, Lois Rubenstein, Jacqueline Shubitowski, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton, Simon Tack, Paul White...