THE EDUCATION OF LEE IACOCCA BY BARRY GEWEN There would seem to be three major reasons why Ia-cocca: An Autobiography (Bantam, 352 pp., $17.95), written by Chrysler's renowned Chief Executive...
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The First Time Around_ Almost Innocent By Sheila Bosworth Simon & Schuster. 269 pp. $15.95. Say Goodbye to Sam By Michael J. Arlen Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 231 pp. $12.95. Edisto By Padgett...
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Learning from Soviet History The Old Man By Yuri Trifonov Translated by Jacqueline Edwards and Mitchell Schneider Simon & Schuster. 267pp. $16.96. The Burn By Vassily Aksyonov Translated...
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States of the Union THE STAR AND THE PLOW BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS John Deere beat his saws into plowshares, and a great corporation was born. That is the tale Wayne G. Broehl Jr. tells in John...
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Assaying Harder_ The Penguin Book of Contemporary American Essays Edited by Maureen Howard Viking. 283 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by John Simon Pity the poor anthologist, for whatever he or she does...
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All-American Anarchism Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life By Alice Wexler Pantheon. 339pp. $19.95. Love, Anarchy and Emma Goldman By Candace Falk Doubleday. 603 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by George...
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On Poetry A BEAT OF OUR TIME BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL The Beat Generation—which in the words of charter member Allen Ginsberg "hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of...
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A Conventional Tale of Nuclear Weapons Day One: Before Hiroshima and After By Peter Wyden Simon & Schuster. 412 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by David M. Oshinsky Professor of History, Rutgers; author,...
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In Search of Selfhood The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times By Christopher Lasch Norton. 317 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Philip Greven Jr. Professor of History, Rutgers; author,...
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On Television BLOWN AWAY BY MARVIN KITMAN The beginning of Threads, the latest nuclear-disaster TV movie, was so upsetting I thought I'd start paying the bills. Since I was already miserable, I...
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