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            <title><![CDATA[Escape from Hungary]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Michael Korda is moved by Kati Marton's powerful memoir, Enemies of the People, about her parents' struggles under fascism and communism, their hidden Jewish identity, and Eastern Europe's weighty history. 
At a moment when many historians are trying...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Making of Kennedy Charisma]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ They could make Hollywood stars look small-time the moment they walked through the door. Michael Korda on Jack, Bobby, and Teddy and the magnetism that died with them.
I never met Sen. Edward M. Kennedy-the closest I came to having anything to do...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Summer's Last Beach Read]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On those final few trips to the shore, take along Michael M. Thomas' Love & Money, a sleek, savvy novel that will transport you back to a time when spending was cool.
Toward the end of my previous incarnation as a book publisher and editor, I seem to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Addicted to Judy Garland]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Before Michael, there was Judy, an icon destroyed by fame. Michael Korda talks to Susie Boyt about her smart new book, My Judy Garland Life-and the toxic relationship between stars and fans.
Fans. Many years ago I had the pleasure of editing a book...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[France's Royal D-Day Snub]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Sarkozy's cold shoulder to the Queen on D-Day's anniversary doesn't surprise Michael Korda-65 years after the Allies saved the French, he's still waiting for a "thank you."
It is hard to celebrate the past in an ecumenical way, or even in a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Original Gossip Girl]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Frances Osborne recalls the seductive Idina Sackville, who scandalized 1920s British society and inspired Nancy Mitford's character The Bolter. Michael Korda is smitten, dahling.
Dahlings-
For those of you who can't ever get enough of the frolics...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[World War II's Team of Rivals]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If you want to learn how the Allies really won the war, Andrew Roberts' impeccable new history retraces the secret meetings between FDR and Churchill.
Of course everybody envies the job of book reviewer-the glamour, the fame, the parties, the lavish...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Patton Like You've Never Seen Him Before]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A new History Channel series on George S. Patton points the way toward a brave new world of digitally enhanced history. Michael Korda on whether it does Old Blood and Guts justice.
The History Channel's new ten-part series on George S. Patton-which...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Brilliant Holocaust Novel]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Plus: Check out Book Beast, for more news on hot titles, authors and excerpts from the latest books. 
The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani totally blew it with their nasty review of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's sweeping Nazi novel.  Michael...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Joe Kennedy's Hollywood Fling]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Plus: Check out Book Beast, for more news on hot titles, authors and excerpts from the latest books.
The Kennedy patriarch who emerges in this sharp new biography could be the hero of an American novel-a supersexed and vengeful Jay Gatsby, who made a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gran Torino is 100-Proof Clint]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In his powerful new film, Eastwood says goodbye with a final blast  of gunfire and a wry, knowing smile. Michael Korda on Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood's powerful new film, and what may be the actor's last.
I have an admiration for Mr. Eastwood that...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Learning to Love Ted Turner]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Whatever its flaws, the new memoir Call Me Ted makes the Mouth of the South seem like a pleasant-even modest!-creature.
For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:54:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Nixon I Knew]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Michael Korda writes that in the new movie Frost/Nixon, Frank Langella captures Richard Nixon as he was-down to the hunched shoulders, the unnerving leer, and his masterful use of television.
Anybody who knew Richard M. Nixon well (I was his editor...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:48:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Late Night Visit From Christopher Plummer]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Sound of Music star's rich new memoir, and the author's encounter with him through a peephole many years ago.
The best way to introduce Christopher Plummer's memoir, In Spite of Myself, is with a theatrical story: many years ago, when I was...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:34:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Man Who Slept His Way Through Hollywood]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In Tony Curtis' new memoir, the marriages, the sex, and the movies are all there. But the book, like the man himself, lacks a certain oomph. 
Many years ago my old friend Irving ("Swifty") Lazar liked to begin his day by calling New York book editors...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:43:29 -0400]]></pubDate>
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