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The Crisis of Confidence, by
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
(Houghton Mifflin, $5.95)
America must look within
itself to determine whether it is
indeed a violent society, whether
violence is not only a fact of
modern American life but a cha
racteristic of its people. So
suggests Arthur Schlesinger Jr.,
the historian and prize winning
author, in this collection of pre
viously r ubijshcd essays.
Violence is only one of many
topics dissected but it seems to
furnish the thread the author
uses to illuminate the crises of
our times that forms his theme.
He ranges from the origins of
cold war, to the evolution of a
warrior class in the United States,
to blood and guts on television.
He finds Vietnam our most
brutalizing war because the de
struction the United States has
wrought “is so widely out of
proportion to rational considera
tion of our national security and
national interest.”
To resolve the “angry and
bitter American schism,’ he calls
on “men and women acting not
as members of groups but as
individuals fulfilling themselves
through human relations with
other individuals.”
Joan Hanauer (UPI)
* * *
Flashman, by George
MacDonald Fraser.
(NAL-World, $5.95)
George MacDonald Fraser’s
Flashman is a fine picaresque
novel of British India featuring
a sahib so resolutely unpukka
one feels Rudyard Kipling would
have resigned from the Empire
rather than shake his hand.
If the truth were known,
that is. The reader knows Harry
Flashman was a constitutional
coward, but he was a hero in
his day, partly because he was
puslved into situations so peril
ous nobody brave survived to
to tell what happened.
It seems natural to speak of
him as an actual person because
Fraser' presents his book as a
chapter in the autobiography of
the bully FJashman, whose ex
pulsion from Rugby is described
in “Tom Brown’s School Days.”
The author would have us be
lieve Flashmans long-lost pa
pers, covering events from the
1820 s to the early 1900 s, turned
up at a 1'965 estate sale. The
book covers only 1839-42 and
Flashman's involvement in the
First Afghan War.
Flashman, who claims to have
witnessed the charge of the
Light Brigade and Custer’s last
stand, calls the Afghan War the
worst military lashup of his ex
perience.
Flashman is great dirty fun.
One hopes for a sequel giving
details of Flashman s involve
ment in the U.S. Civil War,
in which he was a Union major
and a Confederate colonel and
won the medal of Honor (or so
we are told in a flyleaf bio
graphy).
Doug Anderson (UPI)
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How Do You Spank a Por
cupine? by Ronald Rood.
(Trident Press, $4.95)
A porcupine feels like shred
ded coconut and acts like a
mischievous threeryear-old- A.t
least, the orphan the Rood fam-
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ily befriended did. The author,
a Vermont biologist, is the sort
of person who thinks nothing
of keeping frogs in the refri
gerator and a woodchuck in the
cellar:
“After all, frogs spend the
winter sleeping in the frozen
mud, so 1 wouldn’t have to feed
them if I kept them cold,” he
writes. The woodchuck had
been boosted out of hiberna
tion by a bulldozer so I figured
he’d just dig into the dirt walls
of our old farmhouse cellar and
go back to sleep again.”
The ‘chuck eventually tun
neled out through the cellar
wall and left a hole in the lawn,
which Rood hit with his lawn
mower. His wife, a woman of
infinite patience and forbear
ance. agreed to take in the baby
porkie “to see what can possibly
happen next.”
This amusing little book is
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mundance housepets, such as
cats and dogs.
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