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Search - Newsweek Condensed Books: Lyndon, Going to Extremes, Love of Gold, The Man Who Kept the Secrets

Newsweek Condensed Books Lyndon Going to Extremes Love of Gold The Man Who Kept the Secrets
Author: Merle Miller, Joe McGinniss, Emily Hahn, Thomas Powers

Lyndon: An Oral Biography by Merle Miller — Miller has written an immensely readable oral biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, told in large part by the people who knew him. Here is Lyndon Johnson, warts and all, a man whom many called "larger than life," a man who had virtues and vices in excessive proportions. All of them prominently and colorfu... more »lly on display throughout his entire career: a career that spanned some of the most exciting, tragic, and tumultuous years of this century. More than five years in the making, Lyndon abounds with anecdotes and sharp observations. Merle Miller brings LBJ, the man, to life in a book that is both a human document and a revealing political history.

Going to Extremes by Joe McGinniss

He shows us the Alaska he experienced: preposterous, glorious, grasping, and about ten sizes bigger than life. It was in 1975 that McGinniss, on an impulse, set off for the deep North, for a country he knew was on the brink of complete change. During much of the next two years he lived in Anchorage ("a city that had got a late start; now it was trying to catch up all at once, skipping about two hundred years"), repeatedly venturing into the boondocks, hiking across tundra and glaciers, stopping at tiny settlements, poking around, talking, watching, listening. He tells us, "Alaska was, clearly, a place one would have to choose, not a place one just happened to stumble across." A funny, implicitly tragic, and deeply personal book, the best ever written about Alaska.

Love of Gold by Emily Hahn

In this informal, entertaining, and very readable account, she traces the golden thread that links together almost all cultures from earliest times to the present. She tells us that "all the gold that has ever been mined still exists... Some of the gold in your wedding ring or your earrings might well have come from Egypt or Babylon or the Indian desert." Hoard it, hide it, kill for it, bury the dead with it; this precious metal cannot be destroyed. Whether for love of gold or of history, readers will find nugget after nugget of fascinating fact in this volume.

The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA by Thomas Powers

A Pulitzer Prize recipient has written the story of Richard Helms, the quintessential CIA man. For thirty years, from the very inception of the Central Intelligence Agency and before, he occupied pivotal positions in that shadowy world: OSS operator, spymaster, planner and plotter, and, finally, for more than six years Agency director. No other man was so closely and personally involved, over so long a period, with so many CIA activities, successful and otherwise. His story is the story of the CIA, and in portraying Helm's extraordinary career the author has in fact written the first comprehensive inside history of the CIA itself.

Volume 9 Number 2

ISBN-13: 9780882251875
ISBN-10: 0882251872
Publication Date: 1981
Pages: 480
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Publisher: Newsweek, Inc.
Book Type: Hardcover
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