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The Mixed Legacy of Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton: American Richard Brookhiser Free Press / 240 pages / $25 REVIEWED BY Terry Eastland I n 1789 Alexander Hamilton, at age 32, became...

Founding Father (March 1996)

BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Founding Father" to Paris, where his oldest son (and political collaborator) died under mysterious circumstances after a perfectly ordinary appendectomy. Volkogonov obtained much of the new information about...

Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events (Murray Kempton) (October 1994)

E arly on in this collection of pieces written over the last thirty years, Murray Kempton praises the late columnist Westbrook Pegler, a lifelong hero, for his "fierce and unreasonable vanity about...

The Great American Saloon Series/A New York Couple (November 1992)

A New York Couple by Richard Brookhiser Adrink in the lounge of the Algonquin Hotel was the setup for the best birthday present I ever got my wife. I am terrible at presents, especially birthday...

The Way of the WASP (May 1991)

THE WAY OF THE WASP: HOW IT MADE AMERICA AND HOW IT CAN SAVE IT, SO TO SPEAK Richard Brookhiser/The Free Press/171 pp. $19.95 Francis X. Rocca Tf America had been settled and founded by...

Eminentoes/We Liked Ike (March 1991)

EMINENTOES WE LIKED IKE by Richard Brookhiser Publishers marked the centennial of P Dwight David Eisenhower's birth last year a little listlessly. Stephen E. Ambrose's standard biography appeared...

The California Spectator/Land of the Smiling Sun (December 1990)

THE CALIFORNIA SPECTATOR LAND OF THE SMILING SUN T he last time I was in California, 1 apart from a few political trips, I was a five-year-old taken there by my parents on a cross-country drive in...

Park Avenue, by James Trager (July 1990)

o ne hundred and fifty years ago, trains running south to New York along the path of what would become Park Avenue frequently killed wandering cows. One hundred years ago, the nascent street had a...

The Great American Saloon Series/The Russian Tea Room (April 1990)

Daisy and Hoke can be seen as a metaphor for the developing relations between the races in the South from the forties to the seventies, the filmmakers don't press this interpretation upon us....

The Great Siamese Saloon Series/The Authors' Lounge (December 1989)

THE GREAT SIAMESE SALOON SERIES THE AUTHORS' LOUNGE by Richard Brookhiser W esterners think of everything would "learn about the country" there- with their work. Since they have been automobiles,...

The Great Caribbean Saloon Series/Ruminiscences (September 1989)

THE GREAT CARIBBEAN SALOON SERIES RUMINISCENCES by Richard Brookhiser T he time to flee America for the Caribbean is winter, though if, like me, you are in an annual months-long fret about income...

The Great American Saloon Series / The Mohonk Mountain (June 1989)

THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES THE MOHONK MOUNTAIN HOUSE S outheast of the Catskills lie the Shawangunks, a clump of mountains—small and round as plump women—distinct enough to carry its own...

The Great American Saloon Series/Paradise in Brooklyn (December 1988)

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The Great Maharajah Saloon Series / The Polo Bar in Jaipur (February 1988)

THE GREAT MAHARAJAH SALOON SERIES THE POLO BAR IN JAIPUR T he Polo Bar of the Rambagh Pal- 1 ace, Jaipur, India, isn't as hard to get to as it sounds. You arrive in New Delhi at some ungodly early...

The Great American Saloon Series/Bobby Short's Cafe Carlyle (May 1987)

THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES T hough I have lived in New York 1 for going on ten years, I never arrived until a colleague whose tastes in nights out I had formerly associated with Springsteen...

The Great American Saloon Series/Belly Art (March 1987)

THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES BELLY ART by Richard Brookhiser y ou will want to take a cab to Fa7il's International, especially at the time of night when you will be wanting to go. It's not...

Spectator's Journal/Swan Song for Hong Kong (December 1986)

"Spectator's Journal/Swan Song for Hong Kong" Britain's 99-year lease to Hong Kong expires in 1997, at which time the Crown Colony will become part of Communist China. I can now face the prospect with equanimity— for I have a tailor, Ascot...

The Outside Story (May 1986)

1 philosophizes with a hammer, smashing away at the most sacred idols of the American political tradition—Lincoln, the "myth" of equality in the Declaration of Independence, the apocalyptic strain...

The Great American Saloon Series/The Showboat Lounge (April 1986)

Americans of that continually). Thus Posner, when he sensed his own people flagging, could defend the insufferable Soviet emigration policy toward . Jews (if there really is such a thing) by telling...

Sailing from Byzantium (March 1986)

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The Great American Saloon Series/The Old Town Bar (September 1985)

THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES THE OLD TOWN BAR by Richard Brookhiser My neighborhood is changing. That is what New York magazine says, so it must be so. The agents of transformation there as...

Theocracy in America: Campaign '84 Revisited (August 1985)

done by Professor Jastrow. The UCS has privately admitted many of its defects, but does not, of course, abandon its conclusions, since the conclusions are what they begin from. A similar canard...

A Mugging in the Groves: The Story of the Yale Literary Magazine (June 1984)

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Eminentoes / The Everlasting Bore (February 1984)

feasibility studies for, and in the establishment and staffing of, new enterprises (in which the state may choose to become a financial partner), and in social and industrial research, over...

Eminentoes/The Hidden Hoover (November 1983)

EMINENTOES THE HIDDEN HOOVER by Richard Brookhiser He lived longer than any other President, except John Adams, and he still lives a ghostly existence today in the rhetoric of the Democratic...

Eminentoes/Check-out Time (February 1983)

there is such a thing as benevolent Trotskyism; or that by a process of self-mystification one can create out of nothing a Third Force, a Third Camp and thereby avoid having to make nasty political...

The Great American Saloon Series / Closing Time (June 1982)

appealofCommunism? I doubt it. The same motives that led certain people to look to Communism to improve the situation of the masses in the Soviet Union and China still generate support for...

Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence,by Garry Wills (August 1978)

BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence,by Garry Wills" love for humanity, but have little affection for Tom, Dick, and Harry. Nor should we forget that Mencken defended minority views (many of them abhorrent to his person) as well as minorities long...

Eleven Years of Peace (June 1973)

I~e independent thinker" who "stands , alone...with less than a care for Villification (sic)program" against 9 Expanding on this courage motif, eclared "I am badgered at airports this moment...

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