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"I want to be the girl with the most cake," Courtney sang on Live Through This . It was a perfect expression of the kind of cut-and-paste feminism young women I know practice, which makes room for self-destructiveness and fashion magazines and La Perla lingerie and fury.
In linking Lee's self-destructiveness to the culture in which he's enmeshed, Allen reminds me of Newt Gingrich, who blamed Susan Smith's drowning of her children on liberals and the counterculture, before it was revealed that the young woman's disturbed psyche had more to do with the nocturnal visits of her stepfather, a higher-up in the state's Republican Party.
In Reich's generally quite readable--though occasionally overly detailed--book, three strands of Rockefeller's character emerge, all of them reflecting the same degree of urgent vitality and, sometimes, an edge of self-destructiveness.