The Life of Joseph Epstein

The Life of Joseph Epstein

Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life By Joseph Epstein.  Free Press, 2024.  Hardcover, 304 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Never? Maybe saying so really is OK, especially when you know that you had little to...
JP O’Malley Interviews Author Maurice Samuels

JP O’Malley Interviews Author Maurice Samuels

Alfred Dreyfus The Man at the Center of the Affair By Maurice Samuels. Yale University Press, 2024. Paperback, 224 pages, $20. Maurice Samuels published Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair early this year. The University Bookman contributor JP O’Malley...
The Left Wing Patriot

The Left Wing Patriot

The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center By Martin Peretz.  Wicked Son, 2023. Hardcover, 352 pages, $28.00. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. If it can be said that a book occasionally arrives at just the right moment, Martin Peretz’s...
TIME Marches On… Past 100 

TIME Marches On… Past 100 

By John Rodden. The Man of TIME’s Century Who was the most influential journalist in American history? Benjamin Franklin? Horace Greeley? Joseph Pulitzer? William Randolph Hearst?   How about Edward R. Murrow? Walter Cronkite?   Sufficient grounds exist for all of...
The Leadership of George Marshall

The Leadership of George Marshall

The Making of a Leader: The Formative Years of George C. Marshall By Josiah Bunting III. Knopf, 2024. Hardcover, 272 pages, $30. Reviewed by David Hein. Although long in gestation, this study of the formation of General George C. Marshall would have benefited from...