European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Reviews Nixon reconsidered by Joan Hoff Basic books. Richard Nixon is no longer around to reinvent himself but historian Joan Hoff h As taken up that task. She has written a Book arguing that if watergate had not happened Nixon would have gone Down As a great president. Even with watergate she says Nixon deserves to be rated As a Good president a not for his foreign policies which she Calls overrated but surprisingly for his Domestic achievements. She describes Nixon a Domestic initiatives As progressive imaginative far reaching even generous. Hoff twice arrested As a graduate student at Berkeley for demonstrating against Nixon a Vietnam War policies spent 10 years developing her hypothesis after first changing her own mind about Nixon a  spells out her views in this Book whose publication coincides with the 20th anniversary of Nixon a resignation from the presidency on aug. 9,1974, to avoid certain impeachment. It was Nixon she notes who established the environmental Protection Agency strengthened presidential government by creating the office of management and budget and proposed As Bill Clinton mentioned in his state of the Union address a a far reaching but Una opted health Reform program. Nixon a welfare Reform program was Radical in its approach it would have guaranteed All families a minimum income substituting hard Cash for a myriad of entitlement programs. Nixon increased spending on food Stamps the aging and the disabled. For a time he even backed ratification of the equal rights amendment to the Constitution. A the thought of himself As a kind of Middle of the Road centrist a Hoff said. A i Call him a kind of Progress  Mike Feinsilber associated press Dave Barry is not making this up by Dave Barry Crown publishers. Syndicated humorist Barry whose column runs in sunday Magazine will admit when pressed that his writing contains occasional slivers of a factual  much to the Delight of his millions of readers however the bulk of a typical Barry column is made up of As he puts it a Tongue in Cheek social commentary and satire by which i mean  the 13th Book by the pulitzer prize winning he. Morist is another collection of his columns and essays. Technically i guess this Book s title is Correct. Dave Barry does no to make everything up. Just enough to keep his readers chuckling. Mike Kelly Toledo Blade King of ragtime Scott Joplin and Sisera by Edward a. Berlin illustrated. The rags of Joplin with their Oom pah March Bass Are contradicted by the deft melodies of a syncopated treble they have strict forms decorous titles elite syncopation Wall Street rag and the Chi yrs Anth mum an afro intermezzo for instance and a kind of fastidious exuberance Berlin is a scrupulous historian and musicologist rigorously sorting through the facts of Joplin a life and Era discarding or verifying rumours and legends. The history of popular music needs this it haste Pended far too Long Oil anecdote and fancy. Berlin has produced the most thorough and useful Biog a Phy yet of Joplin. But did he have to expunge All drama and color along the Way.  he As Joplin a publisher once wrote a have put his ear to the ground and heard Joplin a heart beat alongside the metronomic strokes of responsible scholarship a a Margo Jefferson new York times undue influence by Steve Martini Putnam. Martinis Legal thrillers Are pocked with flaws. Nonetheless his latest is one of the More Complex puzzlers in the genre this year. Whatever martinis shortcomings he has a storytelling gift that will keep you turning pages at a neat clip. He is scrupulously fair in dropping clues As to who did what and Why. The experienced Reader of est Sellers Richard Nixon a presidential goodbye 20 years ago. Thrillers will keep them at the ready. He saves his heavy ammunition in the Way of surprises for the last few chapters. A Donald la Badie commercial Appeal brother Sam the Short spectacular life off Sam Kinison by Bill Kinison with Steve Delsohn William Morrow. Sam Kinison had a lot to scream about. From his miserable childhood to his terrible teenage years to his drug addled skip through celebrity Kinison had a horrible life. And then he died. In 1992, at the age of 38, Kinison was killed when his sports car was hit head on by a car driven by a teen Ager who had been drinking. Y in 1986, rolling Stone Magazine labelled Kinison comedy so primal screamer because of his tendency to break into tirades of ranting and shouting during his routines. His Normal voice was extremely hoarse and when he added the screaming Kinison came off scary and intimidating. Bill Kinison was same solder brother father Fig ure co preacher nursemaid and manager. Bill held same a hand wiped his nose answered his questions and called his lawyers. Now Bill has written same a epitaph laying Bare. The whole sad tale of brother same a life. A Deb Peterson St. Louis Post dispatch or. Vertigo by Paul Auster Viking this is surely one of Aust re a most absorbing tales written in a prose that is precise confident in its use of vernacular and sometimes smoothly lyrical As in this description of a Kansas drought a the air was so parched so delirious in its desiccation you could track the buzzing of a Horsefly from a Hundred Yards  reaching from old age Back through memory austere a narrator recounts his life Miracle by Miracle beginning in 1924, when the mysterious master Yehudi enters Walt a life. A Joanna Scott los Angeles times Janet Reno doing the right thing by Paul Anderson John Wiley amp sons. Its no Surprise that attorney general Reno scoffed at the notion of a Book about her when Ander son the Washington correspondent for the Miami Herald told her about his idea. A ooh cd Mon a she said with a big laugh noting that she had been the nations top Law enforcer for Only six months and that it All still seemed a ephemeral a he writes. Still a Anderson persisted and the result is this colourful portrait. As a reporter Anderson has covered Reno for a dozen years and now covers her daily As part of his Washington beat. He makes it Clear that Reno offered Only limited cooperation with the biography primarily in not objecting if relatives and friends agreed to be interviewed. This Book provides a fascinating first chapter in the Story of this extraordinary woman who is a real original and a True Public servant. 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