New People in Old Neighborhoods, by Louis Winnick by Scott McConnell After the defeat of Edward I. Koch, New York no longer has a mayor who regularly asks the populace, “How'm…
The Closest of Strangers, by Jim Sleeper; Devil’s Night, by Ze’ev Chafets by Scott McConnell here is an almost old-fashioned tone to Jim Sleeper's impassioned dirge for New York's lost civic culture.
The Making of the Mayor 1989 by Scott McConnell David Dinkins's election in 1989 as the first black mayor of New York City was treated by the media as…
His Eminence and Hizzoner, by John Cardinal O’Connor and Mayor Edward I. Koch by Scott McConnell This fascinating cooperative effort by John Cardinal O'Connor, the Archbishop of New York, and Mayor Edward Koch may one day…
Landslide, by Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus by Scott McConnell Arriving in the bookstores with almost comically bad timing, Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus's hastily written Landslide is an attempt…
Resurrecting the New Left by Scott McConnell Wrapped within the current boom in 60's rock-and-roll, and within the more elusive nostalgia for a time when drugs and…
Imperialism and the Anti-Imperalist Mind, by Lewis Feuer; The Tears of the White Man, by Pascal Bruckner by Scott McConnell Nearly thirty years ago, a group of conservative American academics led by Robert Strausz-Hupe produced a volume pointing out some…
Third World Ideology and Western Reality, by Carlos Rangel by Scott McConnell In the post-colonial era, few political events have come to seem more predictable than the proclamation by a new Third…
The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus, by Jean-Denis Bredin by Scott McConnell Befpre Captain Alfred Dreyfus was charged with high treason in 1894, he was a thirty-four-year old, career-conscious officer on the…
Vietnam & the 60’s Generation: A Memoir by Scott McConnell The triumph of new men riding into power with new ideas has long been part of the script of American…
Rise and Fall, by Milovan Djilas by Scott McConnell There may be no man now alive who possesses more intimate knowledge of this century's Communist movement than Milovan Djilas.…
Homage to Raymond Aron by Scott McConnell Raymond Aron, who died in Paris last October at the age of seventy-eight, was one of the great intellectuals of…
