![]() ![]() ![]() This book gives an incredibly detailed account of the events starting with the Congressional investigation of Watergate that lead to the resignation of President Nixon. It was much more than the break-in, the reporting, then Nixon resigned there were a lot of dedicated people who saw their president and presidency crumble, and they worked to serve their country as they saw best. In discussions about Watergate and references to it, I feel much more knowledgeable about the impact and magnitude of the many events that covered those two years (was it only two years?). I referred to these three sections repeatedly, as the first portion is divided into chapters that detail, through personal recollections and interviews, the meetings between lawyers, the discussions with Nixon, the drafts and the changes to the transcripts, the fight to release the transcript, and so much that went on to which the public was not privy at the time. ![]() There is a cast of characters at the beginning, an index at the end, and a chronology just before the index. Many believed in the man as well as the office, but the hard work over years and the frustration they faced as their hard work yielded greater controversy. It is deep and full of detail of the (mostly men) who worked very hard to save Richard Nixon from himself. As much as received the glory and the movie, this book is extraordinary in its own right. ![]()
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![]() “I was always observing everyone and everything on a heightened level as I went about my day in Seoul.”Ĭha wrote about Seoul’s plastic surgery industry, fine art and K-pop while also offering recommendations on everything from restaurants to hair salons during her tenure as a travel editor. ![]() “In particular, the articles ‘ How to be a Seoul local’ and the ‘ 10 things South Korea does best’ were very fun ones to write because I was able to dive into the specific quirks and global superlatives of South Korea as a country. “Much of the inspiration that I got for this book comes from when I was working at CNN Travel,” Cha says. The New York-based author grew up in the United States, Hong Kong and South Korea and joined CNN as a travel and culture editor in Seoul in 2010. Frances Cha, author of "If I had your face," says her book was inspired by her time as a travel writer and editor. ![]() ![]() ![]() By 1958, the book began to appear in numerous translations around the world, including an edition in the United States that appeared on September 5, 1958. Admirers of Pasternak’s work, however, began secretly to smuggle the manuscript out of Russia piece by piece. The official Soviet press refused to publish the book and Pasternak found himself the target of unrelenting criticisms. The Soviets argued that the book romanticized the pre-Revolution Russian upper class and degraded the peasants and workers who fought against the czarist regime. The book infuriated Soviet officials, particularly Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Doctor Zhivago was an epic love story set during the tumult of the Russian Revolution and World War I. In 1956, he completed the book that would make him a worldwide name. During this time, Pasternak eked out a living as a translator. His work fell into disfavor during the 1920s and 1930s as the communist regime of Joseph Stalin imposed strict censorship on Russian art and literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pasternak was born in Russia in 1890, and by the time of the Russian Revolution was a well-known avant-garde poet. The book was banned in the Soviet Union, but still won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. Boris Pasternak’s romantic novel, Doctor Zhivago is published in the United States. ![]() |