Time and again, unfortunately, Blumenthal's revealing anecdotes and sweeping policy analysis get elbowed aside by his parallel book, the one in which he dives into the murky depth of each successive scandal.
Similarly, a French scholar, Marie Balmary, in her somewhat parallel book "L'Homme aux Statues" (The Man of the Statues) (Grasset, Paris, 1979) contended that Freud selectively interpreted the Oedipus myth to focus on the parricide of the son - ignoring the original crime of Laius, the father, who seduced a youth and drove him to suicide.
And that's the goal of the books in the parallel book series of the same name.
Kazin published his first book of criticism, "On Native Grounds," at the age of 27 in 1942, and Bellow published his first novel, "Dangling Man," two years later -- parallel books by parallel young men.
Upon opening it, the reader discovers two parallel books within: on the left, the story of a family living in Australia, and on the right, a family in Morocco.
The parallel books in each strand are linked by grammar and vocabulary as well, providing the opportunity to recycle and reinforce the language while the content remains fresh and exciting.
It is in a sense two parallel books in one: The first part tests the validity of the obvious idea that the brain and the vagina are connected while the second – if still incomplete – is much more interesting and true to the title looking at historical ideas about female sexuality.
The most common view in the industry about the future of TV drama draws on another parallel with book publishing: the model in which the same story is made available in a variety of delivery methods for various tastes and generations – hardback, paperback, audiobook, ebook.
"Long before there was such a thing as secular human rights groups or a United Nations, missionaries rallied behind Sudan's suffering," said Eliza Griswold, author of "The Tenth Parallel," a book on the line of latitude that roughly separates the Muslim and Christian worlds in Africa and Asia.
One of the incidental pleasures of these scenes is the parallel the book draws between the guilty and bereaved: in the beginning, the same sleepless nights; in the end, the same way of letting the waters of their lives close over the dead.
First, to continue with the Dickens parallel, her book and recent interviews suggest she is more Whiny Tim than Artful Dodger flogging petty grievances a year after the campaign is over is hardly presidential behavior.
