ADVOCATING JOURNALISM Breaking the News James Fallows Pantheon Books, $23, 196 pp. Raymond A. Schroth I continually tell my journalism students—and myself—that if they want to be widely loved...
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THE POETRY OF REAL ESTATE Independence Day Richard Ford Alfred A. Knopf, $24,451 pp. Raymond A. Schroth One of my regrets about not having money is that I'll never be able to buy a house....
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REPORT FROM ABROAD-I HANOI'S VICTORY UNDONE? VIETNAM EMBRACES THE MARKET Ho Chi Minh's corpse glows under the yellow light. A twenty-second glimpse and we are out of the air-conditioned tomb and...
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OUT OF THE FRYING PAN WILDLIFE Richard Ford Atlantic Monthly Press, $19.95, 224 pp. Raymond A. Schrolh In its very first sentence-"In the fall of 1960, when I was sixteen and my father was for...
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BOOKS A devotion to rough edges ometimes a memoir-as distinct from an autobiography, which makes heavier intellectual and emotional demands-is best read, as well as written, in midlife, when both...
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HAS GOD FORGOTTEN PERU? POVERTY, COCAINE, & TERROR RAYMOND A. SCHROTH The first thing that hits you in Lima is the smell- industrial smog trapped in the perpetual cloud cover; exhaust fumes; the...
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BOOKS Beware the jabberwocky THE ACADEMIC LIFE Small Worlds. Different Worlds Burton R. Clark The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, $28.50 hardcover, $24.50, paper, 360...
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Books: BIOGRAPHER AS BLOODHOUND How do you write a good book about a bad man? The reputation of Robert Moses, the subject/victim of The Power Broker (1974), the man who "built" - and, in biographer...
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JOURNALISM AND INTEGRITY RAYMOND A. SCHROTH "A good reporter," Rudyard Kipling once told Herbert Bayard Swope, the editor of the old New York World, "is the noblest work of God." Swope went on to...
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MOSAIC LAW IN NEW YORK RAYMOND A. SCHROTH The Power Broker ROBERT A. CARO Knopf, $17.95 I met Robert Moses once five years ago, and I shall not forget him. I was writing the history of the...
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NEW YORK BOOKS There aren't enough good books about New York City. Two of the best, The AIA [American Institute of Architects] Guide to New York City, edited by Norval White and Elliot Wil-lensky...
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