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Title: Riveting but far-fetched
Review: I happened to read this book just before I read The Years of Crisis: 1960-1963, by Michael Beschloss, a 1991 book on the actual contest with the Russians. It was so much more real and was just as tense an expperience, even tho I knew how it would come out. I was some annoyed by the protagonists of The Charm School, very much impressed with the importance of religion--and eager to commit adultery every chance they could, and never a hint that the religion to which she was so attached had anything to do with whether she should commit adultery or not. But the book holds one's interest, even if on reflection one wonders if the time spent reading it was well-spent.
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