European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Reviews by Andy Thibault the Hartford courant inner circlet How America changed the world a Memoir by Alexander m. Haig or with Charles Mccarry Warner books. Haig the take charge Guy who gave us Haig speak such As Quot i non conc tir a elevates his reputation a notch through this cold War an adept writing partner Haig delivers a Sot Dierks world View in Crisp prose. But even a Book filled with Good War stories cannot overcome Haig a consuming penchant to please the powerful in what sometimes becomes a March of Folly. Haig a mentors included Gen. Douglas Macar. Thur Henry Kissinger former United technologies chairman Harry Gray and ultimately Richard Nixon. He aimed to please whether it was blowing up a Bathtub 1a Korea to protect it from communists or maintaining his loyalty to Nixon. One recent report claims that Haig illegally passed on irs information to Nixon about the president s confidant Bebe Rebozo. As chief of staff to Nixon during watergate Haig writes that he was shocked by the one impropriety he witnessed a Nixon a suggesting that the White House tapes be augmented by phony conversations on a dicta i would have gladly stayed with him through the entire impeachment process Quot Haig writes. He also argues that Nixon a improprieties were no worse than those of other modern presidents citing the Iran Contra scandal of the Reagan Bush Book is noteworthy for its stand against Covert action As a Mere substitute for foreign policy. Haig details failures of the Kennedy administration in Cuba and Vietnam he also decries limited War citing Mac Arthurs characterization of Korea As a War without Quot the problem in Vietnam Haig writes a was we did not fight in the right As a rare example of the right Way Haig cites a Battle for the Village of Ben sue in which he says a Large Supply depot was destroyed in a a Viet Cong that Village was also memorialized in a Book by Jonathan Schell for the killing of innocent people including picnickers destruction of houses and the forced emigration of people from their ancestral does not seem to be a lock step conservative. He acknowledges the Validity of protest against the Vietnam War but notes that those who refused to serve left those less resourceful vulnerable to the draft. He proposes a military Model to a make racism irrelevant in society. One wonders whether that would extend to sexism and sexual preference. The Book begins with an inspired anecdote about a Young depression Cra boy rummaging through his grandfathers attic and coming upon his fathers army uniform. Haig a father died when he was 9. A although his death was and remains the critical event of my life i remember the uniform i never saw him Wear better than i remember him. There was never the slightest Chance after i discovered that uniform in the attic that i would be anything but a so begins a Horatio Alger like me from West Point to Korea Battlefield action in Vietnam and a leapfrog promotion Oyer 240 top ranking generals to become a four Star general. The jobs of White House chief of staff and nato commander followed on dec. 26,1979, Gray announced the selection of Haig As president and chief operating officer of United technologies. A year later president Reagan named him Secretary of state. Haig portrays himself As an Effi Pierit Leader who gets to the Battle scenes and maintains control. His excesses in control however have made him a subject of mockery in political life. In the Book he makes a futile attempt to rationalize the often satirized Quot in a in charge Here statement after the Reagan assassination attempt Haig also was known to overreact when congressional leaders got through to Nixon on the phone Best Sellers a1 Haig when he was natos Boss in 1979. Without Haig a clearance. The vision of the Little boy in the attic fatherless and dreaming of glory lingers. Paperbacks murther amp walking spirits by Robertson Davies Penguin. The narrator suffers his own murder on the opening Page then secs the lives of his ancestors pass before him a on a movie screen no less in the company of the critic who killed him. Elizabeth i by Anne Somerset St. Martin s. Was England a most revered female Monarch really the Champion of her people or a timid indecisive ruler Anne Somerset a British historian has crowned Good Queen Bess with glory again presenting her As the heroine of her time. The Moon by whale log hit and other adventures among bats penguins a Roedl Loans and whales by Diane Ackerman Vintage. Expanded from pieces previously published in the new yorker these essays re Cal a journalist who is As at Home among Blue whales and Bumblebee bats As she is in Urban society. 1 a violent life by pier Paolo Pasolini translated by William Weaver pantheon. Originally published in Italy in 1959, this novel explores the world of a Young thief in Rome who survives by brutality and his wits until his life is unexpectedly transfigured. Black Hills White Justice the Sioux nation versus the United states 1775 to the present by Edward Lazarus Harper perennial. Lazarus details the relationship Between the . 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