Another book written with XYwrite

[Daniel Say say@xxxxxxxx]

	Another Xywritten book by a member of the list.
	Solid, hefty and written with depth--another example
	of XYwrite's utility.				d.say

>From adpf@xxxxxxxx Tue Aug 5 06:55 PDT 1997
Subject: Times review #2 of new Ed Cray biog

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 'Chief Justice' Examines Decisions That Changed a Nation
    August 5, 1997  ( a 'daily' review )
    By HERBERT MITGANG
    Copyright 1997 The New York Times Company
 http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/earlwarren-book-review.html
  
   PUBLICATION NOTES:
   'CHIEF JUSTICE: A BIOGRAPHY OF EARL WARREN'
   By Ed Cray.
   603 pages. Simon & Schuster. $30.
   
   .... In this hefty book about Warren's life and career as chief justice
   from 1953 to 1969, several familiar facts are underscored that have
   become part of our legal and social history:
  
   ....
   "Chief Justice" delves deeply into these matters from angles
   personal, political and judicial. The author, a journalism professor
   at the University of Southern California, delivers an idealized
   biography that balances the man and his decisions through the voices
   of friends, family and colleagues.
  
   As one example of the depth of his research, Cray found and
   interviewed 45 of Warren's former law clerks. They give the reader a
   behind-the-scenes look at the court's decision-making process: the
   diplomacy, the arm-twisting, the large egos, the first drafts and
   final writing credits. It's this kind of inside knowledge that makes
   "Chief Justice" a readable and innovative work.
  
   .... And stylistically, his book could have done with fewer punchy
   one-sentence paragraphs, an old journalistic selling device that
   works better when used sparingly in narrow newspaper columns than in
   600-page books. But these alarums are more than compensated for by
   the solid factual and analytical material that Cray has assembled
   with such dedication in "Chief Justice."