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Backing Into the Future: Strom’s Peculiar Leadership

Strom: The Complicated
Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond, by Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson. PublicAffairs, 415 pages, $27.50.

Of
the many strange moments during the 1999 impeachment of President Bill Clinton, the strangest may have come when Senator Strom Thurmond swore in Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who presided at the Read More

Backing Into the Future: Strom’s Peculiar Leadership

Strom: The Complicated
Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond, by Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson. PublicAffairs, 415
pages, $27.50.

Of
the many strange moments during the 1999 impeachment of President Bill Clinton,
the strangest may have come when Senator Strom Thurmond swore in Chief Justice
William Rehnquist, who Read More

Readings Gone Wrong: More Tales of Writerly Woe

Mortification: Writers’ Stories of Their Public Shame , edited by Robin Robertson. Fourth Estate, 266 pages, $17.95.

Until I read Mortification: Writers’ Stories of Their Public Shame , I thought that my lowest moment as an author qualified me for some sympathy. After all, I spent two excruciating hours at a Barnes & Noble Read More