Throughout this book Mr. Philbrick seems to be looking for mitigating factors on his subject's behalf.
Throughout this book, Auerbach reveals the surprising faces of goodness and evil.
Throughout this book Ms. Haag works very hard to revisit her fresh young self and her glamorous, impetuous lover.
Throughout this book, there are nearly empty pages that the reader is supposed to fill in herself.
Throughout this book Mr. Lowe emerges as a canny observer of both himself and others, and as someone whose instincts have grown increasingly sharp over time.
Throughout this book, he lists the many various ways in which Bowie is, including the psychoanalytical "Bowie is where we start from".
Throughout this book, Valerie Martin's eleventh, there are many such moments of discovery: sudden revelations amid the familiar structure of what people think they already know, sudden twists on what people may have known forever.
Throughout this book Lipset and Marks are scrupulous about avoiding such errors -- among other things, they frequently acknowledge that America has seen more labor militancy and industrial violence than European countries with more successful labor movements.
Throughout this book, Mr. Ellis weaves together the political story of how the 13 colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire with the military story of how the British "delivered a series of devastating defeats to an American army of amateurs" on Long Island and Manhattan, but "missed whatever chance existed to end it all".
Throughout this book Ms. Sonnenberg refrains from analyzing her mother's behavior — there is no speculation in these pages about mental illness or chemical imbalances or emotional damage — and she refrains as well from speculating about the psychological fallout of growing up with such a parent.
Throughout this book, Sacks' analysis reflects an erudite mind fully engaged with philosophy, politics and social studies of the most rigorous kind.
