Volume 35, Number 8 · May 12, 1988
Big Shots
By John Kenneth Galbraith
Trump: The Art of the Deal
by Donald J. Trump, by Tony Schwartz
Random House, 246 pp., $19.95
Boone
by T. Boone Pickens Jr.
Houghton Mifflin, 304 pp., $18.95
Merger Mania: Arbitrage, Wall Street's Best Kept Money-Making Secret
by Ivan F. Boesky
Henry Holt, 256 pp., $18.95 (withdrawn from sale)
Behind the Scenes: In Which the Author Talks About Ronald and Nancy Reagan…and Himself
by Michael K. Deaver, with Mickey Herskowitz
Morrow, 272 pp., $17.95
Books, all will agree, are written for a variety of reasons—as literary or artistic expression, to instruct, persuade, or rebuke the reader, or to make money. The last, no doubt, is the most important reason, but there is yet another. There are books by people who, having made a great deal of money, believe that through a book they can enhance or perhaps redeem their public reputation. From the public applause or approval also will come enhanced self-esteem. The money is irrelevant; a book gives something or is thought to give something that money cannot buy.
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