Volume 37, Number 10 · June 14, 1990
Lost in the Cosmic
By Murray Kempton
In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal
by Richard Nixon
Simon and Schuster, 384 pp., $21.95
Former President Richard Nixon's newest book is his seventh in twelve years, and any author who trots his muse through paces that incessant cannot fairly demand that her flows of inspiration run as full and fresh as they used. But then who among us has not noticed that, when pride or the tax collector compels the old to go on writing, they tend more and more to repeat what they have written already?
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