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Selected Essays 1977-1992: Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution.(Brief Article)

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From: National Review
Date: 19931227
Author:Lyons, Donald

E.L. DOCTOROW is little known as critic or essayist-- and with good reason. This exiguous assembly of prefaces and assignments is unstartling: Jack London was "a workaday literary genius/ hack"; Hemingway was tormented; Orwelrs 1984 is concerned with "the political manipulation of reality through the control of history and language." In this salad bar of limp banalities, there is not a fresh thought, a crisp phrase, or a morsel of original research: His King Charles's head is the wickedness of the Cold War: "I was a high school student in 1946 when Winston Churchill made his Iron ...

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