The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, edited by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay by Nelson W. Polsby In a brilliant lecture about a decade ago, the late Sir Huw Wheldon, then presiding genius of BBC Television, contrasted…
What Hubert Humphrey Wrought by Nelson W. Polsby In my New York Times this morning there is a review of a televised documentary on the House Judiciary Committee…
America’s Hidden Success, by John E. Schwarz by Nelson W. Polsby On a day-to-day basis, bad news is what makes the headlines. I have no idea whether gloom and doom actually…
Down Memory Lane with Joe McCarthy by Nelson W. Polsby In obedience to iron laws of human behavior, it is time for Americans to wax nostalgic about things that died…
The Brandeis-Frankfurter Connection, by Bruce Allen Murphy by Nelson W. Polsby The story line of this book was somewhat obscured by its prepublication publicity. Essentially, it is an account of some…
The Unmaking of a President, by Herbert Y. Schandler by Nelson W. Polsby Students of contemporary history occasionally talk themselves into canonical versions of significant current events. Sometimes these versions stand the test…
Convention, by Richard Reeves; Marathon, by Jules Witcover by Nelson W. Polsby Anybody who says that the American political system is hopelessly mired in the status quo cannot have been paying much…
Against Presidential Greatness by Nelson W. Polsby Until election day is past, candidates for President campaign among their fellow citizens with the simple end in view of…
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1945, by George H. Nash; Up from Communism, by John P. Diggins by Nelson W. Polsby What's a conservative? Some exceedingly good minds have pondered this question, and it seems unlikely that there will ever be…
In Praise of Alexander M. Bickel by Nelson W. Polsby In The Morality of Consent, the late Alexander M. Bickel begins the task of constructing a liberal political philosophy that…
