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Remembering the Reporter Who Inspired 'On the Waterfront'
By SAUL ROSENBERG
July 26, 2010
In May 1948, in a scene that might have come from a gangster movie, a man leapt out of a sedan and fired seven shots at a stevedore named Tom Collentine, three into his prostrate body. As had become routine in previous decades, most New York papers…
How Quest for American Dominance Drove Roosevelt, Eisenhower
By SAUL ROSENBERG
June 27, 2010
Delivering a magisterial account of Franklin Roosevelt’s and Dwight Eisenhower’s roles in World War II, situated within their separate lives and presidencies, may seem an outright impossibility in the space of 100 pages. Yet it is what Philip Terzian has done in Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century.
A Towering Spiritual Leader Finds His Biographers, At Last
By SAUL ROSENBERG
June 21, 2010
Menachem Mendel Schneerson is the subject of an important new biography by Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman, professors at City University and Israel’s Bar Ilan respectively. They describe how Menachem Mendel partially separated himself from Chabad as a Parisian engineer, returning to the fold in flight from the Nazis, shortly afterwards to emerge as Chabad’s undisputed spiritual leader.
Greece in the Shadow of the Nazis
By SAUL ROSENBERG
June 8, 2010
In the most common type of thriller – conservatively, 99 examples out of 100 – a protagonist pieces together puzzling events until the dastardly plans of an antagonist are discovered – and there ensues a game of cat and mouse, or a race against time, so that the good guy(s) can defuse the bomb, or stop the speeding bus, or whatever, five seconds before the world explodes.
Half Way There
By SAUL ROSENBERG
May 26, 2010
Christopher Hitchens is prolific indeed. Now, after books on a dozen subjects from Cyprus to Jefferson, Paine, and, most recently, the general badness of religion, he turns his attention inwards in Hitch-22, named for the paradoxical style of Catch-22. Hitch-22’s chief paradox is that of simultaneously maintaining against militant Islamic absolutists and Western relativists that “there is no totalitarian solution while also insisting that, yes, we on our side also have unalterable convictions and are willing to fight for them.”
Trading Places: ‘Famous Amis’ Runs Into ‘Hitch-22’
By BRENDAN BERNHARD, Special to the Sun
May 21, 2010
Probity, Not Policy
Two Timely Reiusses
By Saul Rosenberg, Special to the Sun
April 26, 2010
American public anger at its financial system has perhaps not run higher in almost a century. Banks are booking record profits while the American consumer on the other end of what was a shared crisis just a year go continues to struggle. Curiously, at about the same time 1st quarter results came out, two volumes at once very different and very much to the point were reissued to little notice on the same day by General Books, a club that republishes classics...
All Alone: Two New Books on Loneliness
Jonathan Ames Gets Real in a Graphic Novel
Drowning in the Desert: Miriam Toews's 'The Flying Troutmans'
The New Face of Philanthropy
A Universe of Books: Borges's 'Library of Babel'
Timothy Ryback's 'Hitler's Private Library'
The Great Rambam: Joel Kraemer's 'Maimonides'
Why We Fight: Martin van Creveld's 'The Culture of War'
Agnès Humbert's Wartime Diary 'Résistance'
The Novel as Idyll: Julián Ayesta's 'Helena, or the Sea in Summer'
A Peculiar Association: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
By ADAM KIRSCH
Book-Burning and Other Bibliocausts
Dominick Dunne Returns to O.J. Trial
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