This is not the first stage version of Ryszard Kapuściński's extraordinary book about the downfall of the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie.
Thirteen years ago, in 2002, when my book Berlin: The Downfall was published, the Russian ambassador in London, Grigori Karasin (now deputy foreign minister), accused me of "lies, slander and blasphemy against the Red Army" and then invited me to lunch.
In other words, while the book shows the downfall of the two boys who cross over to the dark side - both are serving decades in the TDCJ system — it was banished for these two sentences on page 124: Mario purchased pickup trucks from which he removed panels and lights.
While researching his 2002 book, Berlin, The Downfall, historian Antony Beevor found documents about sexual violence in the state archive of the Russian Federation.
But a different view of Republicanism emerges from my new book, "Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party" [Oxford University Press, $29.95].
"Nathan's book of ironic downfalls grows fat," Walter Kirn wrote in the Book Review.
"There was talk that when computers and e-books came in, it would be the downfall of the book," Petroski says.
The book was also his downfall.
It would have been rare to see him smile, and he did not seem to be on the chief executive path, said Ken Auletta, the author of a book about Lehman's downfall in the 1980s called "Greed and Glory on Wall Street".
Next to the usual suspects (Nabokov, Duras, Cortázar, Faulkner), there are Swedish books like "Nedstörtad Ängel" ("Downfall"), by the grand master P.O.
