Volume 37, Number 13 · August 16, 1990
Wonder Woman
By Geoffrey C. Ward
American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson
by Peter Kurth
Little, Brown, 587 pp., $24.95
When Dorothy Thompson's last collection of columns, The Courage to Be Happy, was published in 1957 and got a friendly review from The New York Times, its author professed to be disappointed. 'It's a magnificent testimony to my character—of the 'whether you agree with her or not' variety—' she complained to her editor, 'but it seems to be my fate always to be judged as a conscience and a character rather than as a mind and a writer.'
Review, 5500 words
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