Books Briefly
, Books Briefly THEY COULD NOT TRUST THE KINO: NIXON, WATERGATE AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, by Stanley Tretick and William V. Shannon, with a foreword by Barbara W. Tuchman (Macmillan/Collier....
...The editors have select ed all the significant passages from transcripts of the first round of Ervin Committee hearings, and have added key documents, the President's statements, and profiles of important figures among the investigators and the investigated...
...The fault may lie with the choice of Hunt as the subject, rather than the research and writing of Tad Szulc, a distinguished New York Times correspondent...
...200 pp...
...Apple's narrative hits the high spots, and the index is invaluable...
...It's all here in Stanley Tretick's 102 handsome photographs— the long shot of the Senate Caucus Room, the close-up of Senator Sam's gavel, and, inbetween, revealing portraits of the dramatis personnae, looking appropriately confused, contrite, conspiratorial, or condescending...
...William V. Shannon of The New York Times provides a running commentary that is evocative if not particularly analytical, and historian Barbara W. Tuchman's thoughtful foreword concludes that if Richard M. Nixon is permitted to serve out his term, "we will have laid a precedent of acquiescence—what the lawyers call constructive condonement—that will end by destroying the political system whose 200th birthday we are about to celebrate...
...HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPERS, by Richard Schickel (Charterhouse...
...5.95...
...A book by which to remember a memorable season...
...He finds Fairbanks's aura in the "high deliciousness" of his athletic stunts...
...This tome is not for your coffeetable...
...Viking...
...It is a useful and convenient reference work for those who need the detailed facts...
...This study of Howard Hunt, the former CIA man who directed the bungled Watergate break-in, the raid on the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, and other bizarre operations sanctioned by the White House, may please Watergate buffs, but it is less certain that anything deeply meaningful can be learned from it...
...17.50...
...In this mini-biography subtitled "A Speculation on Celebrity in America, Based on the Life of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.," film critic Richard Schickel examines the gloss and the dross of superstardom and the public's capricious attachment to celebrities, its "pseudo-heroes...
...180 pp...
...886 pp...
...Precisely what every modem American living room needs: a coffeetable book about Watergate...
...4.95 paper...
...Books on the role of the higher-ups in the White House horrors—Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, and Richard Nixon—will be forthcoming and they might be more instructive than this one in terms of what should be done to prevent future police state actions by President Nixon and future Presidents...
...it might crash through the glass top...
...Since his "natural environment was never-never land," Fairbanks had no capacity to face old age and the end of stardom...
...Books Briefly THEY COULD NOT TRUST THE KINO: NIXON, WATERGATE AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, by Stanley Tretick and William V. Shannon, with a foreword by Barbara W. Tuchman (Macmillan/Collier...
...his "speculations" on "celebrityhood" in general are more tentative and amorphous...
...COMPULSIVE SPY: THE STRANGE CAREER OF E. HOWARD HUNT, by Tad Szulc (Viking...
...5.95...
...Also available as a Bantam paperback...
...If he had not been available for White House exercises in skulduggery, dozens of others could have been found for such work, and many were...
...the actor's appeal "was based on eternal youth...
...12.95 cloth...
...Apple, Jr...
...165 pp...
...Schickel's conjectures on the film star are intriguing...
...THE WATERGATE HEARINGS: BREAK-IN AND COVER-UP, edited by the staff of The New York Times, with a narrative by R.W...
...Hunt, like Watergate itself, is a product of the Cold War in which he served as a CIA agent for twenty-three years...
Vol. 38 • March 1974 • No. 3
