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The PRESLEY PHENOMENON by BARRY GEWEN Bird lives!" the dedicated fans of the late Charlie Parker used to exclaim. Four years after his death, the same could more accurately be said about Elvis...
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The Journalism That Failed Joe McCarthy and the Press By Edwin R. Bayley Wisconsin. 270pp. $16.50. Reviewed by James A. Wechsler Columnist, associate editor, New York "Post" Above all, Joe...
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Before and After the Shah Mission to Iran By William H. Sullivan Norton. 269 pp. $14.95. America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations By Pierre Salinger Doubleday. 349 pp. $16.95. Reviewed...
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States of the Union DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS It was in the summer of 1965 that my friend at the Office of Economic opportunity (OEO) gave me a vocabulary lesson, courtesy of...
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Gotham Back Then The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840-1857 By Edward K. Spann Columbia. 546 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Roger Starr Member, New York "Times" editorial board; author, "The Living...
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CONTINUING NEXT ISSUE Charting america's Playing to the Electorate The Rise of Political Consultants By Larry J. Sabato Basic. 376pp. $20.95. Reviewed by Steven Kelman Assistant Professor of...
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On Poetry FATHERS AND CHILDREN BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Dave Smith has published two collections of poetry in the last several months. Despite his versatility and preoccupation with many themes,...
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A Maker and Finder Van Wyck Brooks: A Writer's Life By Raymond Nelson Dutton. 352 pp. $21.75. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia The axe Henry David...
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A Vessel of Sanity Selected Letters of James Thurber Edited by Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks Little, Brown. 274 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Walter Goodman Why read a writer's letters? Well,...
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A MEMOIR On Writers and Politics BY HOPE HALE DAVIS On a recent visit to Kathleen Morrison, who was in fairly complete charge of Robert Frost's career during the last half of his life, I learned...
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Reading with Nabokov_ Lectures on Russian Literature By Vladimir Nabokov Edited by Fredson Bowers Introduction by Simon Karlinsky Harcourt. 416 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Anne Frydman Contributor,...
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1980
Vol. 064 Issue 023 (December 14 1981)
The Presley Phenomenon
