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Darsey (communications, Northern Illinois U.) traces the rhetoric of reform through US history, focusing on such periods as the revolution, slavery, McCarthyism, and today's gay liberation movement. He calls for a more sophisticated analysis of contemporary radicalism than the dichotomies between civil and incivil, and reason and unreason. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Although the notebooks identify the influence of writers such as George Barker, Hart Crane, and Dylan Thomas, they primarily present a man endeavoring to chart his own artistic course or destination.

The letters also portray a complex personality with broad interests, acute intelligence, and heightened imagination as well as a deep need to re-create his past and assume various roles in the present.".

From combat experience through a controversial and impressive literary career, these letters--by the author of From Here to Eternity--are the raw material of a life that was transformed into some of the best fiction of a generation.

"The peaceful villagers of Emond's Field pay little heed to rumors of war in the western lands until a savage attack by troll-like minions of the Dark One forces three young men to confront a destiny which has its origins in the time known as The Breaking of the World..."--Library Journal, www.amazon.com.