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Irving Wallace (1916–1990)

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Irving Wallace was born March 19, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois. He began writing for various magazines at age 15 and worked as a screenwriter for a number of Hollywood studios---Columbia, Fox, Warner Brothers, Universal, and MGM from 1950 to 1959, then he turned solely to writing books. His first toon meer major bestseller was The Chapman Report in 1960, a fictional account of a sexual research team's investigations of a wealthy Los Angeles suburb. Among other fictional works by Wallace are The Prize and The Word. His meticulously researched fiction often has the flavor of spicy journalism. A great deal of research goes into his novels, which cover a wide variety of subjects, from the presentation of the Nobel Prize to political scenarios. With their recurring dramatic confrontations, his novels lend themselves well to screenplay adaptation, and most of them have been filmed, including The Chapman Report and The Prize. Wallace has also compiled several nonfiction works with his family, including The People's Almanac and The Book of Lists, both of which have spawned sequels. Irving Wallace died June 29, 1990 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 74 from pancreatic cancer. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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't Lijstenboek (1977) 1,069 exemplaren
Het Woord (1972) 556 exemplaren
The People's Almanac (1975) 442 exemplaren
The Seventh Secret (1986) 401 exemplaren
Lijstenboek 2 (1980) 397 exemplaren
De zeven minuten (1969) 371 exemplaren
The Second Lady (1980) 370 exemplaren
The R Document (1976) 300 exemplaren
The Man (1964) 297 exemplaren
The Miracle (1984) 278 exemplaren
De prijs roman rond de Nobelprijs (1962) 263 exemplaren
De fanclub (1974) 259 exemplaren
Book of Lists #3 (1983) 249 exemplaren
De magnaat (1982) 247 exemplaren
Het satansserum (1979) 203 exemplaren
The People's Almanac #3 (1981) 188 exemplaren
The Plot (1967) 188 exemplaren
The Celestial Bed (1987) 157 exemplaren
The Guest of Honor (1989) 146 exemplaren
De drie sirenen (1963) 135 exemplaren
Het Chapman rapport (1961) 107 exemplaren
The Golden Room (1989) 100 exemplaren
The Twenty-Seventh Wife (1961) 90 exemplaren
The Sunday Gentleman (1966) 58 exemplaren
Significa (1983) 54 exemplaren
Het overspel (1959) 29 exemplaren
The Writing of One Novel (1968) 28 exemplaren
Bombers B-52 [1957 film] (1957) — Screenwriter — 7 exemplaren
The Burning Hills [1956 film] (2015) — Screenwriter — 6 exemplaren
Gun Fury [1953 film] — Writer — 5 exemplaren
Foeminae (1965) 5 exemplaren
O PRÉMIO 2 exemplaren
O LEITO CELESTIAL 2 exemplaren
As três sereias 2 exemplaren
Ime : [romaan] (2006) 2 exemplaren
A sala V.I.P 1 exemplaar
Le requin 1 exemplaar
El Séptimo Secreto 1 exemplaar
O milagre 1 exemplaar
The Silver Queen 1 exemplaar
Yancy Derringer: Loot from Richmond — Scriptwriter — 1 exemplaar
Bad for Each Other [1953 film] (1953) — Screenplay — 1 exemplaar
DELICESINE 1 exemplaar
Fabuloso empresario (1968) 1 exemplaar
Fan club. Vol I (1977) 1 exemplaar
Fan Club. Vol II 1 exemplaar
The Plot (1979) 1 exemplaar
GIZLI CENNET 1 exemplaar
Sedem minut 1 exemplaar
Irving Wallace 1 exemplaar
A Senha 1 exemplaar
TitreÅŸim 1 exemplaar

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This work, published in 1964, is about the surprising accession of a black man to the office of the presidency of the United States after the unexpected deaths of the president, the vice-president and the leader of the House of Representatives. In 1964, this would have been an amazing event, as the book demonstrates. I don't even remember (I was too young) if there were any black Americans in Congress at that time (John Lewis? not yet?). Now that we have had a black president who was popular enough to be elected to 2 terms in office, I suppose I must ask, as mentioned in the other review, whether this book is still relevant. I think the answer is unequivocally yes. "Bypassing" the color barrier with Barack Obama was certainly momentous, but we must acknowledge that Barack Obama was able to relate to people of all races and nationalities perhaps because of his experiences in a biracial family and maybe also because he was/is extremely charismatic and intelligent. The color barrier still exists for us normal people.

Having said this, I only gave this book 3 1/2 stars because it took so long to get to the interesting points. By slowly and solidly building the backgrounds of the characters and the story, it took a lot of patience to get to the part where conflicts and matters of race were injected into the daily running of the country and caused so much difficulty for President Dilman. Nevertheless, by the time I finished the book, I found that I liked it very much. The question that needs to be asked on a regular basis is: how do our black brethren in this country feel about our white countrymen? And vice versa? Can we become a colorblind society? What will it take to reach that goal? The outcome in the book is not perfect and it does not suggest that much progress will be made by having the first black president (at least in the 1960s) but it gives us hope and suggests the value of all victories — large and small — towards that goal.
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This novel is very much in line with the stories like "Seven days in May" only difference being [and this is applicable also to modern thrillers where antagonists are either terrorists from all over the world or standard Cold War [like] Russia] that main concern here is not external enemy but internal one - crime.

We follow acting Attorney General Christopher Collins as he slowly (and entirely by accident) comes across a conspiracy that aims at changing the way country works using raising crime rates as a pretext.

It is a scary book - not as much because of the plot but because of the possibility. People trust their elected officials for guidance and if officials abuse their power (or are intentionally misled in their actions) then people will end up in a situation where they become oppressed party. Interesting thing here is that their oppressors [who are doing what they are doing always under the pretense of helping people] are now surprised because did not that same people vote for their current state of affairs - so why are they raising their voice now, are they the rebellious element of society? Dictators rarely see themselves as despots - they see themselves as parental figures (yes there were female dictators too through history) who guide their people because these people is always viewed by dictators as children that do not know better and need their's [dictator's] guidance at all times (famous excuse).

Very good book. Unfortunately it is also as relevant today as it was in 1970's when it was initially published.
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