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When, under Clinton appointee James Lee Witt, the agency finally earned rave notices for its response to the Great Flood of 1993, only the dullest functionary could have missed the lesson: When you do battle with disaster, no medals are awarded for being stingy.
(The Post , to its credit, published a rave by Ronald Steel.)
Some say the books are "a sort of Hardy Boys for smart, literate men" (Patricia Ward Biederman, the Los Angeles Times ), while others rave about "O'Brian's extraordinary learning and gift for classical prose" (Amanda Foreman, the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here to visit this index to all the Web sites devoted to O'Brian.)
In 1973 Doubleday wisely reissued The Young Visiters , and it got a rave review by Alan Friedman in The New York Times . He called it “a tiny novel that begs comparison with giants: Tolstoy's War and Peace , Flaubert's Sentimental Education , and Lawrence's Women in Love may be bigger, but The Young Visiters too manages to contain and display, more gracefully than the giants, an entire civilization.”
Among four related stories: a rave review for the film and an appreciation of John Quincy Adams, a major Amistad character and "one of the only genuine intellectuals ever to occupy the White House."
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