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The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
by Thurston Clarke
Review by Bill Lenderking

"The Last Campaign shows that the issues of 1968 have hardly been resolved, though the contexts may have changed. Clarke clearly believes the country is again in need of a truly harmonizing leader."
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Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom
by D.G. Fulford with Phyllis Greene
Review by Julia M. Klein

"Millions of women of the baby boom generation will, like Fulford, find themselves designated as emotional companions for their widowed mothers. For them—for all of us—Designated Daughter serves as a kind of Platonic ideal."
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Christopher Buckley, the author of Boomsday, answers "What book changed your life?"

If you mean that literally, I suppose I'd have to say, The Baltimore Catechism. That book loomed over my youth, and it is astonishing, even frightening, to reread it now. I also recall reading the last chapter of Moby-Dick, tears streaming down my cheeks, and being transported, but I wouldn't say that it changed my life.