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THE CHALLENGES WE FACE

EDITED AND COMPILED FROM THE SPEECHES AND PAPERS OF RICHARD M. NIXON

            Compiled from the Vice-President’s remarks before various groups, responses to questions and speeches, this book is a carefully chosen collection of essays on domestic and international affairs.  None of the speeches date earlier than 1957 with the exception of an address given in the House in 1950 on the Hiss Case.  There are some patriotic talks on The Pioneer Spirit and Our Legacy from the Old World; a justification for Khrushchev’s visit here from an address before the American Legion; and the speeches given during his trip to the Soviet Union including the famous “Kitchen Debate” with Khrushchev.  In the section on foreign policy the Vice-President examines the aid program in terms of how it serves the interests of the U.S., suggests a minimum program to encourage private investment abroad, and warns against trying to compete with the Soviet Union on its own terms.  He affirms again and again that the U.S. is in a position to meet a military threat by the Soviets, but he insists that the greatest threats lie in the areas of political, economic, and psychological warfare.  On Latin America:  he claims that the vast majority of the people of those countries have a real feeling of friendship and affection for the U.S.  On China:  he is “naturally” opposed to recognizing Red China now and does not see any changes in the situation that would suggest a reverse in our policy.  In the domestic issues section he talks about the characteristics he thinks the American people expect in their President; professes belief in local control of the educational system and suggests that Federal aid be limited to school construction; endorses the Landrum Griffin Bill in discussing his role in the steel strike; and on the question of civil rights he says the he believes that the administration has made progress without going to extremes.  There is very little here that will support the views of those who feel that what Mr. Nixon had to say before 1957 is as much a part of the record as the new “high road” look.

Pub Date: June 21, 1960

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Review Posted Online: May 22, 2012

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1960

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IT ENDS WITH US

Packed with riveting drama and painful truths, this book powerfully illustrates the devastation of abuse—and the strength of...

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Hoover’s (November 9, 2015, etc.) latest tackles the difficult subject of domestic violence with romantic tenderness and emotional heft.

At first glance, the couple is edgy but cute: Lily Bloom runs a flower shop for people who hate flowers; Ryle Kincaid is a surgeon who says he never wants to get married or have kids. They meet on a rooftop in Boston on the night Ryle loses a patient and Lily attends her abusive father’s funeral. The provocative opening takes a dark turn when Lily receives a warning about Ryle’s intentions from his sister, who becomes Lily’s employee and close friend. Lily swears she’ll never end up in another abusive home, but when Ryle starts to show all the same warning signs that her mother ignored, Lily learns just how hard it is to say goodbye. When Ryle is not in the throes of a jealous rage, his redeeming qualities return, and Lily can justify his behavior: “I think we needed what happened on the stairwell to happen so that I would know his past and we’d be able to work on it together,” she tells herself. Lily marries Ryle hoping the good will outweigh the bad, and the mother-daughter dynamics evolve beautifully as Lily reflects on her childhood with fresh eyes. Diary entries fancifully addressed to TV host Ellen DeGeneres serve as flashbacks to Lily’s teenage years, when she met her first love, Atlas Corrigan, a homeless boy she found squatting in a neighbor’s house. When Atlas turns up in Boston, now a successful chef, he begs Lily to leave Ryle. Despite the better option right in front of her, an unexpected complication forces Lily to cut ties with Atlas, confront Ryle, and try to end the cycle of abuse before it’s too late. The relationships are portrayed with compassion and honesty, and the author’s note at the end that explains Hoover’s personal connection to the subject matter is a must-read.

Packed with riveting drama and painful truths, this book powerfully illustrates the devastation of abuse—and the strength of the survivors.

Pub Date: Aug. 2, 2016

ISBN: 978-1-5011-1036-8

Page Count: 320

Publisher: Atria

Review Posted Online: May 30, 2016

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2016

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A CONSPIRACY OF BONES

Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival.

Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.

A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice (The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man. Nettled by several errors in Heavner’s analysis, and even more by her willingness to share the gory details at a press conference, Tempe launches her own investigation, which is not so much off the books as against the books. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.E.’s splenetic outbursts. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.S. government project to research biological agents that could control human behavior, the hinky spiritual retreat Sparkling Waters, the dark web site DeepUnder, and the disappearances of at least four schoolchildren, two of whom have also turned up dead. And why on earth was Vodyanov carrying Tempe’s own contact information? The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. Fraud. Breaking and entering. Arson. Kidnapping. How does attempted murder sound?”

Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival.

Pub Date: March 17, 2020

ISBN: 978-1-9821-3888-2

Page Count: 352

Publisher: Scribner

Review Posted Online: Dec. 22, 2019

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2020

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