... strange private relationships among public figures we have read about and heard about. Think of terrified Isaac, lying on that altar, watching his father raise the knife; think of Pilate's frantic wife who had nightmares about Jesus; think of Eva Braun's strange relationship with Hitler, of Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Kennedy, Margaret Trudeau, and dozens and dozens of other political and show-business figures - people who were twisted, hurt, hampered, outraged, spurred on, or, in some other way, changed by ...
