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What is most striking about The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer 1908-1958 (the first of a projected two volumes), though, is that this duality--the push to achieve wed to a penchant for flamboyant failure; the ability to win a passionate following yet alienate the people who could keep him in power--was evident well before he thought about running for public office.
But he may just be a person who things happen to happen to, a guy with a penchant for pretending to be what others want to believe that he is.
The proposal comes from a man with a proven penchant for spurring debates--O.J.
Lukas' penchant for epic had served him well in Common Ground , his account of racial turmoil in Boston during the '60s and '70s.
The summit, "with its all-night sessions and constant brushes with disaster, was a setting in which Clinton's penchant for keeping all the balls in the air at once seemed to thrive," said the Post . "Clinton relied on a personal style of charm, persistence, and language that could be artfully imprecise," particularly when Netanyahu sought his assurance that the United States would release Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.