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...make the presidency work again." There is, too, the grandeur and sweep of the office. "It came home to me," recalled Gergen, "on the day we had breakfast at the Versailles economic summit, met with the Pope in Rome at noon and had dinner with the Queen at Windsor...
...have to tell you," Reagan goes on, "Queen Elizabeth is a most charming, down-to-earth person. It didn't surprise me a bit to hear how she handled that intruder. Incidentally, she's a very good rider." When the two of them rode near Windsor Castle, he says, it was "not like in the parades where it has to be traditional sidesaddle. It is called the forward seat, the modern riding, and you knew that she was in charge of the animal...
...begins Canadian Timothy Findley's fourth and most peculiar novel. In Ragtime style. Famous Last Words assembles a vivid cast of historical personages, among them the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Lana Turner, Ernest Hemingway and Charles Lindbergh. But here the famous names do not move to syncopated jazz; instead the work resounds with tainted anthems...
...woman he loved "in the way dogs have of loving the feet at which they lie," from their first meeting in the lobby of the Imperial Shanghai Hotel in 1924. Both were infatuated with the same male. Their two-decade odyssey ends in the Bahamas, where the Duke of Windsor, glazed with alcohol, dressing a model of his mother each morning in fresh clothes, lives out the last degraded years of exile...
...more apposite. Ezra Pound's bloodless hero did not merely suffer from the disease of his age; he was the disease of his age, mute until it was too late, sensitive only for No. 1, fatally solipsistic to the end. As catastrophe beckons, the Duchess of Windsor is heard to complain: "We are led into the light and shown such marvels as one cannot tell . . . and then they turn out all the lights and hit you with a baseball bat." Findley does not relinquish the bat, but in this ambitious, disturbing book, the lights never...