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Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber, by David Gelernter (Free Press, 160 pp., $20.50)

IN this sparkling small book, David Gelernter mixes a memoir of his long recovery from wounds inflicted in a Unabomber attack in 1993 with deeper cultural ruminations about America. He says that it is easier to smash things up than to put them back together-true about his partially shattered body and also for the country he sees as still not healed from the social explosions of the 1960s.

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Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber, by David Gelernter (Free Press, 160 pp., $20.50)

IN this sparkling small book, David Gelernter mixes a memoir of his long recovery from wounds inflicted in a Unabomber attack in 1993 with deeper cultural ruminations about America. He says that it is easier to smash things up than to put them back together-true about his partially shattered body and also for the country he sees as still not healed from the social explosions of the 1960s.