Volume 25, Number 17 · November 9, 1978
Brass Bands and Raspberries
By Wilfrid Sheed
In Search of History: A Personal Adventure
by Theodore H. White
Harper & Row, 561 pp., $12.95
Make-Believe Presidents: Illusions of Power from McKinley to Carter
by Nicholas von Hoffman
Pantheon, 260 pp., $8.85
They used, I am told, to have a phrase over at Life magazine known as 'winning the lunch.' Life was a very lunchy outfit, to judge from the number of Henry Luce anecdotes that seem to feature that meal, and Life reporter Theodore White's In Search of History can be read as a further elaboration on the phrase. It is a tale of lunches won, lost, and drawn, until an alternative title In Search of the Tab occurred fleetingly to this reader, though it lacks White's breadth of vision.
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