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This latest installment of the "Penguin Lives" series is well received, even though it trails Richard Ellman's definitive 900-page Joyce tome, which was deemed "probably this century's best biography of a writer" (David Kippen, the San Francisco Chronicle ). Undaunted, novelist O'Brien attempts something entirely different: She gives 179 pages of "hardheaded hagiography in which she spends a lot of time knocking Joyce around" (Robert Sullivan, the New York Times Book Review ). It's notable not for its wide net, but for its precision, economy, and insight: "a first-rate appraisal of a master … a model of pristine brevity" (Robert Taylor, the Boston Globe ). One complaint: The book contains an "impressive number of inaccuracies of a factual nature," such as misidentifying the poet laureate of Victorian Ireland and misquoting critic Walter Pater (Thomas Flannagan, the Los Angeles Times ). (This Joyce site has essays, links, and message boards on the author.)
In the mid '60s, he and Irving Kristol founded the policy journal The Public Interest , arguing that, with the end of ideology, the ladder to the City of Heaven must be an "empirical one," based on hardheaded problem-solving.
Its advocates must grapple with the ugly facts of racial segregation in the United States; of the latter's hardheaded if spasmodic support of its allies' futile efforts to cling to their colonial empires; and of the West's readiness to support loathsome regimes in the name of the greater cause.
Also in Time , a Madeleine Albright profile, which reaches the same conclusions as Newsweek 's cover story last week: Albright is media-savvy and hardheaded, though not a grand visionary.
In Schumer, D'Amato finally faces an opponent who's as hardheaded, shameless, and effective as he is.
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