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Forty Ways to Look at JFK tackles the enduring puzzle about JFK: what made Kennedy Kennedy? What made him such a dazzling, unforgettable figure? This biography illuminates Kennedy's character and explains the source of his strange, enduring magic as not even the most exhaustive JFK studies have managed to do. This is not a book for Kennedy fans alone, but for anyone fascinated by the force of his personality on American culture and politics. Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill makes Churchill accessible and meaningful to twenty-first-century readers, with forty contrasting views of the man: he was an anachronism, he was a visionary; he was a racist, he was a humanitarian; he was the most quotable man in the history of the English language, he was a bore. Like no other portrait of its subject, Forty Ways recounts details more improbable than fiction-and investigates the contradictions and complexities that haunt biography. Power Money Fame Sex is a self-help satire that exposes the strategies used by those hungry for power, money, fame, and sex; it's a guide to what actually works, rather than what ought to work. Beneath explanations, tips, and illustrations lurks a piercing social critique - why we would choose to become a self-promoter, a bully, or a tease. Profane Waste explores the question of why owners might choose to waste their own property-and, more interesting, why such destruction and loss are so thrilling. Profane Waste is the product of an illuminating collaboration: Rubin's provocative argument and Dana Hoey's haunting photographs give the reader a shock of recognition as a category of action-never before explained-becomes comprehensible. |  |
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