RAVELSTEIN

Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shaker s of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's own surprise, h e does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir or a life of him, and during the course of a celebrat...[Read more]