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Israel David Goodkind is a minor bureaucrat in the Nixon White House, killing empty office time by writing the story of four generations of his large, sprawling Russian Jewish immigrant family. As he recounts his brief stint in show business, his torrid affair with a showgirl, and his encounters with a hassled and distracted President Nixon, Goodkind also witnesses historical events firsthand - the Watergate scandal, the Yom Kippur War - and eventually finds his way back to his Jewish faith.

What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the lid. For more than two decades she has kept a secret diary detailing the trials and tribulations of being a political plus-one; the travel, the security, the challenges to family life and the unpredictable events. A professional partner as well as a life partner and one with strong political opinions herself, she detonates the image of the dutiful stereotype.

Regan thought she had found a new life. She thought she'd found something to love in the ring. She thought she'd found someone to love outside those ropes - someone who loved her. But what she found was danger. And there's no easy way out.

1476 couplets contrast the outsiders of the state with the insiders of particular societies of American commerce. Keynesian outsiders think they know better than the competitive insiders of commercial operations. Professors, in the outer towers of academe, contrive unhealthy constraints for the inner places of enterprise.