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… Virginia. By Burton J. Hendrick. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $3.75. To write the history of a family is a risky … made politics an honorable profession among us. He knows also that this kind of leadership has never been … by his son, Robert E. Lee, when he led the Confederate soldiers. Insurrection within a state and the secession of a …

… Useless, the altogether appropriate title given to the journals Werner Herzog kept while making his most famous film in … most books. As in one of Herzog’s slow-moving films, life comes across as a dark, viscous current through which people … settle for pulling a model ship over a ridge in the San Diego botanical gardens. Herzog was having none of it and …

… the couch near the fireplace have clearly been chosen for comfort. Altogether, the emphasis is upon comfort and … things to men and that never gets into history books. Soldiers of an army kill each other, Tom. They always have. … he is dead. We mustn’t deny it again. CURTAIN           248-263 By Peter Taylor …

… the pens of the refugees from Mussolini’s realm, there now comes forth a comparable output from the typewriters of the “former … the normal Hitler: at moments of climax it emerges and conceals him beneath its more than life-size puppet figure.” This …

… Lightning, American Light. By Susan Dunn. Faber and Faber. $26.00. Near the American military cemetery at the foot of … friendship. There one can read a reminder of just how welcoming the French people have been for more than two hundred … true that sentiment must be for the thousands of G.I.s, who died in World War II and are now buried all over France. The …