Money and Class in America, By Lewis H. Lapham; America’s Upper Class, by Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr. by Roger Starr Each of these books is by a representative of the patrician, aristocratic, or equestrian class--the choice of term being a…
Trump: The Art of the Deal, by Donald J. Trump with Tony Schwartz by Roger Starr In an accelerated world, it seems hardly extraordinary that a very rich New Yorker named Donald J. Trump should, at…
American Jews and Israel – A Symposium by Lionel Abel, Robert Alter, Daniel Bell, Eric M. Breindel, Joel Carmichael, Paul Cowan, Werner J. Dannhauser, Midge Decter, Maurice Friedberg, Murray Friedman, Nathan Glazer, Irving Greenberg, Ben Halpern, Mark Helprin, Milton Himmelfarb, Erich Isaac, Rael Isaac, H. J. Kaplan, Hilton Kramer, Edward N. Luttwak, Michael A. Meyer, Jacob Neusner, William Phillips, Daniel.Pipes, Richard Pipes, Dennis Prager, Earl Raab, Eugene V. Rostow, Jonathan D. Sarna, Peter Shaw, Seymour Siegel, David Singer, Max Singer, Steven L. Spiegel, Roger Starr and Marie Syrkin Never, perhaps, has criticism of the state of Israel by American Jews been so open, so widespread, and so bitter…
Secrets of the Tax Revolt, by James Ring Adams by Roger Starr Despite its title, this book is not about the tax revolt, since there are no real secrets about the mobilization…
The Railroaders, by Stuart Leuthner by Roger Starr This is a book about thirty-two people who made railroads run, including two women-one a brakeman (brakeperson?), the other a…
The War Against the Atom, by Samuel McCracken; Nuclear Power: Both Sides, edited by Michio Kaku and Jennifer Trainer; Nukespeak, by Roger Starr Anyone old enough to remember Hiroshima will also remember that in the welter of conflicting emotions stimulated by the destruction…
The Politics of Welfare, by Blanche Bernstein by Roger Starr Blanche Bernstein is a public official who has become anathema to her former colleagues in the social-welfare community. In their…
Blaming the (Jewish) Victim by Roger Starr Almost exactly on the 44th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Austria, I happened to be having lunch in New York…
The World Challenge, by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber by Roger Starr Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber is a French futurist, carrying on a profession that got off the ground when Joseph accurately forecast the…
The Three Mile Shadow by Roger Starr As the United States debates its energy future-with a new strategic option emerging almost monthly, now biomass, now a vastly…
Innocents of the West, by Joan Colebrook by Roger Starr For some lonely Americans who suffered incommunicado through the impieties of the 60's, Innocents of the West is, though belated,…
Leon Trotsky, by Irving Howe by Roger Starr This little book, an expanded version of an essay Irving Howe wrote in the early 1960's, summarizes Trotsky's life as…
