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An e-book of biographical sketches by

JOHN O�LOUGHLIN

Entitled

PORTRAITS

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Comprised of thirty-three biographical sketches of some of the twentieth-century's most influential and powerful people in both politics and the arts, including Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, de Valera, Mussolini, de Gaulle, Andr� Malraux, Bertrand Russell, Salvador Dali, Simone de Beauvoir, and David Ben-Gurian, Portraits � Power and Glory vis-�-vis Form and Contentment (1985) seeks to provoke as well as to praise, and should prove of interest to those who are curious to learn how various exceptional men - and one exceptional woman - measure up to a Social Transcendentalist analysis or, more correctly, to the scrutiny of someone, namely John O�Loughlin, who approaches life from a specific ideological standpoint with a view to measuring the achievements of others in relation to it.� Although he had dealt with some of the subjects, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Aldous Huxley, and Lawrence Durrell before (see Becoming and Being), Mr O�Loughlin�s treatment of them here is much more subjectively critical and thus a reflection, in large measure, of the way his thinking had progressed during the intervening three years since his earlier excursion into biography, which, characteristic of a more relativistic approach to literature typifying him at that time, also embraced a series of autobiographical sketches.� No such relativity applies here, however, although the choice of both politicians and artists is anything but absolutist, as suggested by the subtitle.