European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Review Sprinca charming Tho John f. Kennedyjr. Story by Wendy Leigh Dutton. He a a 32-year-old lawyer who twice failed the ban his most recent career move quitting his Job for an extended vacation. He sports a Shamrock Tattoo and spends his free time tossing amp Frisbee around new Yorkus Central Park. A hey in t that your Beer Swilling loser of a College Roommate no a its John f. Kennedy jr., and biographer Leigh is betting that her Book on the Hunky presidential son will improve her personal Economy. To stack the Odds in her favor the cover of Prince Chi arming we John f. Kennedyjr Story features no authors name no title no publisher a Only a full color photo of Young Kennedy his Power tie slightly Askew his hair and his smile just perfect. Inside Are beefcake Pix of a shirtless Juk or. Turn ing handstands. Running. Walking playing softball. Roller blading. Get the subliminal message. This buy Guy this is Book gorgeous while her work does cover Kennedy from his White House Days to his Daryl Hannah nights Leigh admitted the idea behind the Bio did no to come from some editor Bent on recording history. Quot really what led to the Book a a Friend and i were gossiping about John and she said a  it be great to do a paperback named Hunt a recounted Leigh a former bbl television Corfe Spon Dent and Fleet Street Veteran. A Short time later Leigh viewed rare footage of the 1961 John f. Kennedy inauguration and was struck by Quot the Glamour glitter and Promise Quot a most of it unfulfilled because of two assassinations Chappaquiddick and other tragedies. Quot you see what a become a downward spiral and what has emerged untarnished the one thing that a remained out of those ashes is John a a said Leigh who previously wrote an unauthorized biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger. While Johns re sum does no to quite Back up Leigh a gushing description it does include a a nickname Quot the hunk a a provided by the City s tabloids a title a the sexiest Man alive Quot provided by people Magazine. A pursuing and catching actress Hannah getting pursued and caught by Madonna. A driving two women Over the sexual Edge in a Seinfeld episode where he never appeared. A Skinny dipping on a nude Beach in the French West indies a sight photographed in full frontal View by a Manhattan woman. She has since a rejected All financial offers from the Media Quot Leigh wrote. Quot she kept the photograph to herself and a few friends who now and again were granted the priv. Itegue of gazing upon the Adonis like  a Larry Mcshane the associated press legends. Lies and cherished myths of world history by Richard Shenkman Harper col Lins. A t t it was never a foregone conclusion that Britain would oppose Germany in world War i or so says pop historian Shenkman. He notes that Britain and Germany had cordial relations before that War while the British and French had a Mutual antipathy. Queen victorians late husband was German. The Mother of the Kaiser was British. T Shenkman also debunks world War ii. Germany s payment of reparations from the previous War could not possibly have contributed to the Rise of Hitler Shenkman argues because american foreign Aid gave Germany As much Money As Germany paid in reparations with plenty to spare. Shenkman says German bigotry blamed on the nazis was rampant before Hitler came on the scene. So was Heg Monous nationalism. Such sentiments can be found in German textbooks predating Hitler not to mention the writings of Wagner whose weird social views commanded More attention than deserved due to the composers acclaimed artistic Talent legends lies also mentions that the phrase a Iron curtain Quot was not original with Winston Churchill and that Churchill originally tried to appease Hitler. Shenkman a Book entertains just by Clearing up widely held misconceptions. The dark Ages for instance included some very enlightened times. Victo  k Juk or. Is linked with Hannah and Madonna. Rian times were in Many respects licentious. Its interesting to learn How wrong ideas about history take hold. Early historians with axes to grind often spun the untruths and often their versions have gone unchallenged. Ignorance of the fact that the French used to use a different system of measure has led to an under reporting of the height of Napoleon. This allegedly Short Man was actually just Over 5-feet-6, which in those Days was the High end of  leaves the Reader with a sceptical View of history books. A Howard Dicus up round Hie clock by Philip Kaplan and Jack Currie random House. Round the clocks Art director Kaplan and author Currie have pulled together 250 photographs 120 in color to put a human face on the Allied bomber offensive Over Europe during world War ii. The title refers to the continuous air attacks on German cities and territory in an attempt to grind Down nazi resolve during the War. Unlike other War books a and there should be plenty rolling off the printing presses to recount world War ii a various 50th anniversary benchmarks a round the clock focuses on the Crews of the . Army air corps b-17.flying fortresses and b-24 liberators and to a lesser extent on the British who manned the Lancaster Stirling and Hal faxes. A major drawback to round the clock a in addition to its Steep $50 Price tag a is that the Book does not pull together events. The books picture captions Are hard to find. Side commentaries set in a smaller typeface Are unrelated to the photographs. The commentaries Force the Reader to turn pages Back and Forth to follow two tracks. Jim Sielicki up wars and Winters by Alfred Coppel Donald i. Fine. This is an interesting Post world War ii thriller. Coppel invigorates a tired genre with fresh angles on the old plot about the German bad Guys. He has a Low key narrative tone and this novel lacks the last full measure of excitement. But the plot veers away from anything derivative and in a nazi novel that requires a lot of twists indeed. Howard Dicus the robber Bride by Margaret Atwood Talese Doubleday. Atwood is tired of seeing Only Nice girls in fiction so in her latest novel she has created a formidable alternative. She is an anti heroine named Zenia a brilliantly scheming temptress who betrays other women steals and discards men like so Many secondhand clothes constantly reinvents herself for her own dark purposes and generally conducts herself with flamboyant malevolence. 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