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kl : to "Those Happy Few oo Ten years aro this spring, * oo 1 - 2 leading Republican lawyer [Books —_ | Le Keanedy bad brought some thing new to the Depart — mont of Justice. “I can’t re -° oe WE BAND OF BROTHERS. By Edwin Cushman (Harper & Rew, 339 pe. 97.96) ber,” he sald, “when. . Holmes the dopartment has beenso | ~ Reviewed by James E.C ; Gandy well staffed at the top. The reviewer, ex’ editorial Washin Mz Beav These guys don't have much - experience but they've got & ‘Freporter from 1900 wxtitsnet = lot of potential” . Riberd FE 7 ee It ig to this croup that the © title of Edwin Guthman's.” . onal : mati editor of the —— _ Angeies Times. athe Jos book refers. It comes from a | line in Shakespeare's “King ~ Henry V* that Bob once, s book on some of the used in inseribing a drawing ° of the department’s build-. ing: “We few, we happy few, i we band of brothers.” Rob- ert Kennedy and almost all © the others in the top ranks of the Department of Jur tice felt that way about . themselves in those three | hectic years of the early 1960s. The team and the. teamwork was superb and— Ed Guthman was at the cen ° ter of it. ' Few public relations men: and that was what Guth . 3 3 events he thus shared with : Rebert Kennedy is much , like his work in the depart-. * ment—informed, _factual,; ~ eandid but always Joyal to his chicf. He notes, again and again, that his is a: - biased view of Robert Ken-" , nedy but he constantly. ” struggles, as the good news- " paper man he is must, to . separate the facts he knows. * from the emotions he feels. ' So the book comes a7 close to portraying Robert Kennedy, the man-as con. The Weshington Post “Times Herald — ln The Wachineton Daily N ee) The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) J aba PEL ANT A te dda Fach, Tre ts Be Tas bend apd Da “‘mman was for the department 1 * trasted to Robert Kennedy, valved ried as deeply in- _ the “pubic 1 figure—aF" any. Daily News (New York) \ “ ee 3 book, yet written The _-Sunday News (New York) Ya) -—— warmth, we compassion, the New York Post Wee ve . gardonie humor, and the loy-. — ‘the Tod tei g alty that those near. Bob‘ The New York ° NS ‘tHe press that he estab-* came to kmow is all there. It. The Daily World - Mished Guthman almost al Will be hard for most af: New Leader ~f fe ways knew exactiy what was ‘those who knew him even The Wall Street &e. 3 "going on but he never mis. :<- moderately well to suppress Vall Street Journal i. led a reporter. oa ta tear when Guthman re’ e National Observer 1 fe The book begins with’ --. tells some af the incidents, Phople’s World CNY Kennedy's first visit to Seat-.. oa rege < CS ra ue on the trail of Dave Beck *” - 7 p n 1956 where Guthman, then- et al RAAYV i) Ff 1g 3 & -prize-winning reporter, - " pDasliFt at twé + - 3 supplied some of the critical : 7 7 - S$, / 3 bf &/ : first leads. lt backtracks to | va B. geal with Xennedy's ea of ° . : | | 3 is job earlicr on the. Me-~ . = : } Carthy Coramittes a 2s NOT or woo See (G. a- - i covers ts * : . a * -~- Ti xa Washington years before 8s id 203 eee — ] | last corversation fa a room “:-” _ ee at the Ambassador Hotel in - — Dreec Pra ° tos Angeles. wi wheres Guth ae se , por? FLFR