Men in the Cities is, as you would expect from Goode, beautifully and often vigorously written.
The result is an "admirably clear, vigorously written, plain-spoken and common-sensical book," Thomas Powers wrote here earlier this year.
It is Roosevelt -- brilliant, charming, unpredictable and dying -- who dominates Michael Beschloss's vigorously written history of postwar planning.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- brilliant, charming, unpredictable and dying -- dominates this vigorously written history of the Allies' plan for rebuilding Germany after the war.
Tom Watson, a Labour member of Parliament who has pursued the phone hacking scandal vigorously, wrote on Twitter before the summons was issued: "This thing about the Murdochs and their nationality is a red herring.
Much of Michelle Huneven's second novel (her first was "Round Rock") meets these criteria; offbeat and vigorously written, it is engrossing in part because it wears its preoccupation with the paranormal so lightly.
At the Montreal Gazette, John Griffin, who praises the film vigorously, writes, "You want to experience The Social Network, even — or perhaps especially — if you value privacy and despise Facebook as a prime enabler in this sorry age of acute narcissism".
My only serious quarrel with Toobin's admirably clear, vigorously written, plain-spoken and common-sensical book it is that he cannot resist the temptation to join the multitude in condemning "the damning fact" of the president's infidelity and holding up to ridicule "the squalid details" of what went on with Lewinsky, revealing Clinton as "guilt-ridden, selfish, compulsive".
This vigorously written biography captures the graceful American balladeer in all the phases of his short life (he died at 44 of lung cancer), from teenage prodigy to dazzling jazz and pop music icon in the 1940's and 50's.
Andrew Sullivan, despairing of a President he has for the most part vigorously supported, writes, "He has folded — and you can see he knows it by the wan, listless look on his face.
Harlan vigorously dissented, writing, "I had not expected to witness the day when the Supreme Court of the United States would render a decision which casts grave doubt on the constitutionality of the composition of the House of Representatives.
