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Grace and Favor
By Thomas Caplan; St. Martin's Press;
$24.95.
In a novel that blends the charm of
Brideshead Revisited with a contempo-
rary financial thriller, Grace and Favor
is about a reluctant expatriate from
the United States who marries into
English aristocracy and finds himself
in a business entanglement that threat-
ens his family.
Caplan, a founder of the
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, was
a college roommate of Bill Clinton's
and remains close to the president. As
noted in George magazine, perhaps
Caplan best sums up his relationship
with the president in Grace and Favor,
when the protagonist
describes his relationship
with his brother-in-law: "I
like him and am glad that
we are able to share the kind
of easy friendship we do, the
friendship of men who
would not, for a moment,
wish to live each other's
lives."

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God & the American Writer
By Alfred Kazin; Alfred A. Knopf $25.
From the Puritans to Robert Frost,
American writers search for their own
understanding of God in Kazin's latest
book. Through Emerson, Melville,
Whitman, Twain, Faulkner and oth-
ers, Kazin describes the writer's atti- & <
tude toward God and religion. Says
the New Yorker, "Few books of literary
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Hitler's Banker

By John Weitz;
Little, Brown, and
Company;
$24.95.
Hitler's banker
was Hjalmar
Horace Greeley
Schacht — "like
his name, eccen-
tric and highly
enigmatic." Sure,
he financed the
Nazis — but
some suspect that
Schacht also
helped in the
assassination plot
against Hider.
He was one of
only three defen-
dants acquitted at the Nuremberg
trials — and then went on to live
to 93. For Weitz, this is the sec-
ond biography of a key figure
from the Nazi power circle.

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God Is a Verb
By Rabbi David A. Cooper;
Riverhead Books; $24.95.
God is a verb — a process,
a process of awareness. At
least that's how Rabbi
Cooper understands the
idea from Kabbalah, or
Jewish mysticism. A longtime
teacher of Jewish meditation, Rabbi
Cooper hopes in this book to renew
the glorious kabbalistic tradition of
generations that, he asserts, was nearly
lost in the Holocaust.

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