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Scrapbook But Enough About Me . . . : In a recent episode of Good Morning America, former first child Patti Davis joined host Joan Lunden to talk about her new book, Angels Don't Die: My Father's...
...I hadn't brought it over with me...
...Schneider's article was based on conversations with unnamed Wilson aides, and took issue with the prediction made by Lamar Alexander communications director, Mike Murphy, that Wilson would be out by Thanksgiving...
...Send your entries to: Our Weekly Reader, The Weekly Standard, 1150 17th St...
...Great Moments in Punditry: With Pete Wilson's departure from the presidential race, we thought you would like to know what professional political sage William Schneider had to say on the subject of Wilson just days before the California governor's pullout...
...In the course of it, a conversation between mother and daughter is recounted in which Patti wonders at the fact that her book Angels Don't Die has reached #3 on the Christian bestseller list...
...Well, said Patti, "the same serenity, the same deep faith that I wrote about in Angels Don't Die is what's still so astounding in my father...
...For our part, we've been watching for years for TNR's hard-hitting attacks on the Singer Sewing Machine Co...
...Thank you," replied Patti...
...and perhaps six other people...
...33 percent of women...
...I didn't have any choice...
...Our apologies to all, but the actual title of the fourth book is purely generic: Money, by Emile Zola, the story of a bank in France that seeks to get Catholic depositors to invest in Catholic businesses-an eerie foretelling of the redlining hysteria of the 1990s...
...The greatest work ever written by a dwarf...
...The Napoleonic Code, by Napoleon...
...We asked pollsters Fred Steeper and Steve Lombardo of Market Strategies to check on this...
...asked Joan...
...Wilson has always had a special genius for positioning...
...First the Post's Howie Kurtz weighed in, then the Post 's Richard Cohen, then Jonathan Alter of Newsweek, owned by the Washington Post Company...
...Well, to be fair, I didn't take that on," he declared...
...This is James, so no one would be so crass as to actually discuss money, but money-or the lack thereof- is the driving force of the novel...
...Scrapbook But Enough About Me . . . : In a recent episode of Good Morning America, former first child Patti Davis joined host Joan Lunden to talk about her new book, Angels Don't Die: My Father's Gift of Faith...
...Were Watching, Too: Speaking of the New Republic, its most recent issue expresses concern that because Rupert Murdoch has business dealings with China, THE WEEKLY STANDARD will pull its punches with respect to that regime: "We'll be watching for the Standard's hard-hitting attacks on the Communist tyrants in Beijing . . ." They haven't been watching very hard...
...That same promotional shamelessness was on display in last week's edition of Newsweek, in a cover story called "The Long Goodbye" about Reagan's declining days, for which Patti was clearly the major source...
...Life Studies, by Robert Lowell...
...The Standard Question: The way the media tells it, Republicans on Capitol Hill are producing more change than the public wants...
...The flip side was 32 percent of men and a whopping 46 percent of women prefer the Dems...
...Pete Wilson," opined Schneider, "is clearly positioning himself to win if Robert Dole stumbles...
...This makes it the first book on that list by a writer who also posed nude in Playboy...
...You know," said Patti, "we just began talking and a lot, obviously, of what we talked about were past wounds, many of the things I had written about...
...And when I left the hotel to get it Xeroxed and bring it to her that evening, I really realized how perfect all of this was, that I needed her blessing before it was to be published...
...Two novels by Trollope, Dickens's contemporary, were also mentioned: The Way We Live Now, about a speculative frenzy in 1870s London (sent in by Ted Levinson of Manhattan) and his first serious novel, The Three Clerks (thanks to Joseph Hamburger of Hamden, Connecticut...
...Quin Hilyer of Washington chose Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (ditto...
...Or take a look at last week's Scrapbook, specifically the item titled "Post-Cold-War Commie Update," where we criticize Bill Clinton's "kowtow" to the Communist Chinese for refusing to have the Dalai Lama in the Oval Office "so as not to antagonize Tibet's tormentors in Beijing...
...He "experienced" the presidency before he was president...
...Harrison Flynn of Boston tried Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (which, we must confess, is not one of our favorite books...
...The reader who correctly named the missing Fourth Book was to receive a gift subscription...
...Stephen Miller of Reston, Va., chose The Wings of the Dove by Henry James, "about a couple that needs money, so the would-be wife tells the would-be husband to romance a dying heiress...
...NW, Suite 505, Washington DC 20036...
...Two serious obscurities were submitted...
...Oh yes, I did," said Patti...
...Did you want to have her blessing on it...
...That was an issue that was visited on the presidency...
...The books must be genuine works of literature or possess significant historical importance...
...The original "let's look under the hood and fix the engine" work from the shortest dictator in world history...
...Forty percent said they're pleased, 39 percent prefer the Dems, 10 percent like neither party, 10 percent don't know, one percent refused to answer...
...It was the fourth novel on a list of great works about money (the other three were The Titan and The Financier, both by Theodore Dreiser, and Framley Parsonage, by Anthony Trollope...
...It was brought up -the people who brought it up were the Republican senators...
...Bill Clinton's Pathetic Lies (Cont'd): President Clinton never lets you down...
...Take a look at the article in our first issue, "Rule by Thieves," where George Jochnowitz calls China a "kleptocracy" in the iron grip of "wicked leaders...
...Ooooooooooops...
...Karen Jones of Peekskill, N.Y., guessed Frank Norris's 1915 McTeague, probably best known for being the source material of Erich Von Stroheim's silent-film masterpiece Greed...
...Good having you back here with this book," said Joan...
...Clinton, of course, had pledged flatly and repeatedly that, once elected, he'd lift the ban on gays in the military...
...And the winner is: Nobody...
...And in the context of that, I heard myself saying, 'Well, I think you should know I've written a new book, and I think you'll like it.' And it's called Angels...
...Featuring many poems about what it's like to go completely insane and be committed to an asylum...
...Strange...
...I ended up giving it to her that evening...
...Davis showed aspiring self-promoters how almost any question-even those about a dying parent-can be turned into a plug for a book: "How's your dad, how's he doing...
...That's exactly what he's doing right now," he wrote in a Sept...
...At a White House luncheon on September 25 with several dozen media friends (and a few critics), he tossed off a fresh whopper...
...Or as Vice President Al Gore explains, everything Newt and Company are doing is "extremist...
...Forty-eight percent of men were pleased with the GOP...
...Charles Dickens's Bleak House, about a 25-year lawsuit, was the choice of two entrants, George Anne Castel of Hillsdale, Michigan and T.B...
...First, The Breadwinners by John Hay, known to Ted Babcock of Janesville, Wisc...
...Connor of Wimberly, Texas...
...And one day last week we had the Post's Donna Britt assessing Shalit as "a marginal reporter" and the Post's William Powers reminding readers that she "plays the writing game fast and loose...
...Graham's will be arriving shortly...
...At the lunch, Clinton also said this: "I think [I] had underestimated the importance of the presidency, even though I had read all the books and seen it all and experienced it in my lifetime...
...Tell me about seeing your mother, said Joan...
...So in late August, they asked 1,000 adults this question: As the Republican Congress nears the close of its first session, are you "pleased with its work overall, or would you-in retrospect- prefer that the Democratic party had kept its congressional majorities...
...But we did receive some astonishingly literate and interesting guesses: "The fourth book," writes James K. Glassman, "should be Balzac's Eug?nie Grandet (much better than the overwrought Dreiser), about how a miser destroys his family...
...Well done, troops...
...Second, The Fairy Godmother by Charles Baxter Clement, a 1981 tome submitted by its original publisher, Jameson Campaigne, of Ottawa, Ill...
...asked Joan...
...Gays in the military...
...The Fourth Book Contest: Two weeks ago, we asked readers of The Weekly Standard if they could guess the name of the book we inadvertently left off our first Reading List...
...On the Menu at Kay's: Broiled Shalit: After Ruth Shalit's recent 13,000-word New Republic article, "The Washington Post: In Black and White," about affirmative action at the Post, several fiercely independent writers popped up to discuss the piece-which meant attacking Ruth Shalit...
...And, oh my, what a gender gap...
...Your dinner invitations to Mrs...
...23 National Journal piece after Wilson's decision to withdraw from the Iowa caucuses...
...We invite readers to submit reading lists of their own on subjects in the news...
...Two Balzacian runners-up: The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birroteau and A Harlot High and Low...
...The Reading List: In honor of Ross Perot's return to the presidential stage, here are three works by three authors that remind us, for some reason, of the $3 billion man: The Dunciad, by Alexander Pope...
Vol. 1 • October 1995 • No. 4
