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It's a question the Book Bench has explored in detail in the past.
At a time when Zionism is under question, the book provides a dramatic, yet liberal justification for Israel's existence.
Stunned to the point of tears at his own rage, he ponders, "What had happened to this country?" It may be the only genuine question the book poses.
In our live chat with Vann, he gave a thoughtful answer to the question: The book is not really stories or a novel.
Reviewing Rashid Khalidi's "Sowing Crisis" (March 15), James Traub writes that for him "the most pressing question" the book raises is "not whether American behavior in the Middle East has been consistently self-serving and expansionist" but rather "whether Arab failure is... a consequence of that behavior".
That's the grand question the book sets out to answer by way of a thousand other tiny questions about who did it; who saw it; why it happened; and whether — in the case of Ike's stricken, delirious father, who is the novel's master character even if he doesn't dominate its stage — its human consequences can be endured.
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Those are the questions the book asks.
On these questions, the book is largely silent.
Too many of the questions the book does set out to answer -- What is Sontag's relationship with her son?
What I didn't see first time around are the awkward questions the book poses about its own story.
An abridged version of "Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War" would be welcome.Yet on the big questions the book is clear.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com