Demagogue, The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
DEMAGOGUE, THE LIFE AND LONG SHADOW OF SENATOR JOE MCCARTHY One of my first memories of TV occurred during the summer of 1954 when I watched Senator Joe McCarthy conduct one of his famously brutal “find the Commie in a haystack” investigations as Chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Investigation Sub-Committee. I was eleven; we […]
Search for the New Land
Search for the New Land shook me awake and into the world of Julius Lester’s Black experience. Sometimes my reading habits set me off like a pinball machine. I’ve been reading about American literature and its uncomfortable (for me, a white reader) connection to racism. It’s a topic that’s been seriously on my mind since […]
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center Ray Monk previously wrote an excellent biography of Bertrand Russell in which he helped me, at least temporarily, to understand the intricacies of symbolic logic and Russell’s famous philosophical paradox. In this biography of Oppenheimer, “the father of the atomic bomb,” Monk takes as his special objective the […]