Browse Authors

G - Gc

Gd - Gg

Gh - Gk

Gl - Go

Glad, Betty

Gladwell, Malcolm

Gladwell, Malcolm T

Glanville, Jerry

Glass, Charles

GLASSMAN, JAMES K.

Glazer, Nathan

Glendinning, Victoria

Glick, Stephen P.

Godson, Roy

Gold, Dore

Gold, Philip

Gold, Reopened Vic

Gold, Stephen V.

Gold, Vic

Gold, Victor

Gold's Fool (November 2004)

BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Gold's Fool" not dress up what they were doing in legalistic language. They were brazen in their goals. They ridiculed church members at public meetings. They bragged about their ability to use...

American Hayride (March 2000)

EDWARDS PLEADS INNOCENT IN FEDERAL FRAUD CASE EDWARDS GRAND JURY DELVES INTO NEW TERRAIN - - Headlines, autumn 1999, New Orleans Times-Picayune return home to Louisiana every year or so to...

Last Call: Las Vegas Nights (November 1999)

LAST CALL by Victor Gold Las Vegas Nights THE NIGHT BEFORE WHAT HAD BEEN MODESTLY billed as the Fight of the Millennium, I thought of A.J. Liebling and headed for La Scala, in the fluorescent...

"Let's Get Together," (May 1998)

"Let's Get Togedder" New Orleans Mayor-for-as-long-as-he-wants Marc Morial is giving new meaning to his city's long reform-resistant history. Selling out to casino interests is allowing...

Eminentoes: The Payoff (January 1997)

EMINENTOES by Victor Gold The Payoff I can't imagine why Harold Ickes, Junior, thought the president he helped re-elect would appoint him White House chief of staff, but was hardly surprised when...

The Nation's Pulse: Year of the Ruptured Duck (October 1996)

"The Nation's Pulse: Year of the Ruptured Duck" by Victor Gold Year of the Ruptured Duck With the boys safely home, 1946 saw American sports...

Last Call: Dole's Coming Veep (August 1996)

"Last Call: Dole's Coming Veep" by Victor Gold Dole's Coming Veep Republican presidential candidates, more than their Democratic counterparts, have a habit of surprising people with their choice of running...

The Nation's Pulse: Circling Atlanta (August 1996)

"The Nation's Pulse: Circling Atlanta" An Olympic city only General Sherman could love....

The Nation's Pulse/ The Harder They Fall (October 1995)

The Harder They Fall by Victor Gold A few years back I met with John Kasich, a young congressman said to be looking for new challenges, on the off-chance I could interest him in a modest proposal...

Politics as a Noble Calling (F. Clifton White with Jerome Tuccille) and Goldwater (Lee Edwards) (August 1995)

C lif White was one of the fathers of professional campaign management, but don't hold it against him. He is no more responsible for the current state of the political art, as practiced by James...

Among the Intellectualoids / Dr. Spinquote (March 1994)

Dr. Spinquote by Victor Gold I'm not going to disguise the fact that I despise Ronald Reagan. —Justin Kaplan, editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (16th ed.), quoted in the Philadelphia...

Among the Intellectualoids / The Book on Dave (July 1993)

D on't talk to me about the movie Dave. I've liked Kevin Kline as an actor since The Big Chill, and think enough of his co-star Sigourney Weaver to have sat through an entire performance of a...

The Nation's Pulse / Cool Diz and Me (March 1993)

1 t wasn't easy being a Dizzy Gillespie fan at the University of Alabama in the late 1940s. Race had nothing to do with it. The problem was getting the records. Be-bop, take my word for it, wasn't a...

Eminentoes/All the Duke's Men (February 1992)

All the Duke's Men by Victor Gold The ferocity of Hitler's Ku Klux Klan cannot be exaggerated, but the fact remains that the bravest people in Germany are excluded from the gang. It takes very...

The Coonass King and the Guru (October 1991)

the country. We can do better." Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, a liberal chest-thumper, says Bush better not try to "Hortonize" him. He'll hit back. "You wait and see," he told reporters. Speaking of...

Pledging Allegiance, by Sidney Blumenthal (February 1991)

Mr. Blumenthal can barely suppress his fury as he describes how Mr. Dukakis squandered his lead and turned a likely Democratic victory into a decisive defeat. —Alan Brinkley, New York Times,...

Eminentoes/The Saga of Crazy Earl (December 1990)

EMINENTOES THE SAGA OF CRAZY EARL Little Davey Duke, oh yeah. . . . You know that sapsucker went and bought hisself a new nose? Oh yeah . . . Flew all the way to California to pay one o' them...

Romania Watch (August 1990)

SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL ROMANIA WATCH by Victor Gold O n the eve of Romania's May 20 election, the student "hooligans" who had started it all last December were still talking it up in the square at...

Means of Ascent, by Robert Caro (July 1990)

BOOK REVIEWS Shrewdly, knowing I worked for Barry Goldwater in his 1964 presidential campaign, the editor asked if I'd review the latest Caro volume on the life of Lyndon Johnson. Not so shrewdly,...

Spectator's Journal/We Never Called It "The Big Easy" (February 1990)

SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL WE NEVER CALLED IT "THE BIG EASY" There is a New Orleans accent... associated with downtown New Orleans; particularly with the German and Irish Third Ward, that is hard to...

The Nation's Pulse/The Year They Legalized Drugs (November 1989)

THE NATION'S PULSE THE YEAR THEY LEGALIZED DRUGS Give Up Drug War; Legalize Drugs Instead —Headline on a column by Lynn Scarlett, USA Today, circa 1989 V es, well, all things considered, just I...

The Nation's Pulse/Four for Baseball's Good Old Days (October 1989)

"This program saved my neck when faced with teaching two new courses and two months to prepare. SQUARENOTE gathered all the research, organized it, and even printed out my lecture notes. A basic,...

Special Editorial/Flag Flap (September 1989)

SPECIAL EDITORIAL FLAG FLAP by Victor Gold AMENDMENT XXXVIII Notwithstanding the provisions of Article II of the amendments hereof regarding the necessity of a well-regulated militia, the sale or...

The Nation's Pulse/Extremists in the Mainstream (July 1989)

THE NATION'S PULSE EXTREMISTS IN THE MAINSTREAM by Victor Gold Chicago D arry Goldwater was in mid-campaign form. Asked by a twerp reporter for his reaction to the verdict in the Oliver North...

The Nation's Pulse/The Coolidgean Press Conference (April 1989)

THE NATION'S PULSE THE COOLIDGEAN PRESS CONFERENCE PRESIDENT (addressing a reporter): Are you taking down in shorthand what I say? REPORTER: Yes sir. PRESIDENT Now I don't think that is right. I...

Aside from That, Sam, How Did You Like the Speech? (January 1989)

Victor Gold ASIDE FROM THAT, SAM, HOW DID YOU LIKE THE SPEECH? If today's White House press corps had covered the Gettysburg Address .. . As reported by the Washington Post: GETTYSBURG, Pa.,...

The Body Politic (November 1988)

THE BODY POLITIC Victor Gold & Lynne Cheney/St. Martin's Press/$15.95 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Heretofore my favorite satire of the American democratic zoo has been Henry Adams's Democracy....

The Nation's Pulse/To Asa Hearthrug, with Appreciation (November 1988)

SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL TO ASA HEARTHRUG, WITH APPRECIATION by Victor Gold M ax Shulman is dead. He was the King of College Humor in his undergraduate day (which was my undergraduate day), the...

The Campaign Spectator/Dirty Harry and the Whistle-Stop Caper (September 1988)

THE CAMPAIGN SPECTATOR DIRTY HARRY AND THE WHISTLE-STOP CAPER "I will not get down into the gutter with that fellow" —Famous last campaign words: Thomas E. Dewey to Republican National Committee...

Fighting Mike's Fight: How Bush Can Lose (August 1988)

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 21, NO. 8 / AUGUST 1988 Victor Gold FIGHTING MIKE'S FIGHT: HOW BUSH CAN LOSE An old campaigner explains there is an alternative to slugging on Dukakis's...

The Campaign Spectator/Canards of '88 (So Far) (May 1988)

THE CAMPAIGN SPECTATOR CANARDS OF '88 (SO FAR) Q ix months to go until the presidential election of 1988 and the canards pile up. Not simply those issuing from the candidates and their...

The Campaign Spectator / Game Show Politics (March 1988)

THE CAMPAIGN SPECTATOR GAME SHOW POLITICS IOWA, OR THE SMOKE-FILLED ROOM? The Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary—they're part of a much better way . . . —Headline and excerpt, New York...

Eminentoes / The Last of the Red-Hot Populists (February 1988)

EMINENTOES THE LAST OF THE RED-HOT POPULISTS James Elisha Folsom, 79, the liquor-guzzling former Alabama governor whose racial moderation in the 1940s and 1950s brought calls for impeachment from...

Looking Forward (November 1987)

T he Presidential Candidate's Book I first surfaced as a political art form when Nathaniel Hawthorne published his monumental biography of James Buchanan, circa 1856. Quite possibly you've forgotten...

The Nation's Pulse/Nine for Baseball (September 1987)

THE NATION'S PULSE NINE FOR BASEBALL* A s a cultural genre, the insider's baseball diary came into its own not with Jim Bouton's Ball Four (as New. York literary scholars would have us believe),...

The Nation's Pulse (November 1973)

"The Nation's Pulse" Quick, Steve, slip me a spyglass. A contact lens. Something. Because I can't believe my pollutionated eyeballs. Did you see who just walked in? I mean, Jill St. John I could understand. Or...

goldberg, bernard

Goldberg, J.J.

Goldberg, Joyce

Goldberg, Robert M.

Goldberg, Steven

Goldman, Marshall I.

Goldman, Peter

Goldsmith, Jack

Goldwater, Barry

Goldwater, Barry Jr.

Goldwater, Barry M.

Goldwin, Robert A.