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Heart: A Memoir, by Lance Morrow (Warner, 323 pp., $22.93)

THE author of this book was 53 when hit by a massive heart attack, 17 years after surviving the first such attack, sustained in 1976 at Kansas City while covering for Time magazine the Republican Convention that nominated Gerald Ford. He has written before (The Chief, 1985) about his early life as son of Hugh Morrow, the writer and publicist for Nelson Rockefeller, and here he touches now again on his youth, but looks also at greater length on other preoccupations and interests, which include his parents and their own upbringing, also Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, drinking, the Depression, his farm in Dutchess County, Elie Wiesel, anger, death, and the American scene.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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Heart: A Memoir, by Lance Morrow (Warner, 323 pp., $22.93)

THE author of this book was 53 when hit by a massive heart attack, 17 years after surviving the first such attack, sustained in 1976 at Kansas City while covering for Time magazine the Republican Convention that nominated Gerald Ford. He has written before (The Chief, 1985) about his early life as son of Hugh Morrow, the writer and publicist for Nelson Rockefeller, and here he touches now again on his youth, but looks also at greater length on other preoccupations and interests, which include his parents and their own upbringing, also Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, drinking, the Depression, his farm in Dutchess County, Elie Wiesel, anger, death, and the American scene.