![]() “An engrossing history of Churchill’s crucial role in the grand alliance of World War II from Pearl Harbor to V.E. The rug merchant by Phillip Lopate, 1988, Penguin Books edition, in English. Churchill: Road to Victory, 1941-1945, Martin Gilbert (Houghton Mifflin). ![]() The seven essays in “Watching Television” emphasize “how television is implicated in the growing sense of impotence and fragmentation that characterize the American mood.” “Reading the News” tries “to demystify journalism by revealing in specific terms how the news happens.” Both books are “rich and provocative” (Neil Postman). Watching Television: A Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture, edited by Todd Gitlin Reading the News: A Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture, edited by Robert Karl Manoff and Michael Schudson (Pantheon). ![]() can understand and appreciate everything he can talk gracefully and eloquently, but he can’t say: ‘I want’ ” (Richard Eder). ![]() “A small and quietly wonderful novel.” Cyrus, “a fully achieved and perduring character. The Rug Merchant, Phillip Lopate (Viking). Phillip Lopate is an essayist (Portrait of My Body), film critic (Totally Tenderly Tragically), novelist (The Rug Merchant) and anthologist (The Art. ![]()
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