The Library
Babbin, Jed & Simon, William E. & Barr, Bob & Bozell, L. Brent III
The Library A Time for Reflection: An Autobiography William E. Simon, with John M. Caher (Regnery Publishing, 352 pages, $27.95) The Meaning of Is: The Squandered Impeachment and Wasted Legacy of...
...Better yet, he embalms the media...
...He died before finishing his memoirs, but from my reading of the final product, A Time for Reflection, he had them well underway...
...Bill, who died in June 2000, was through his philanthropy, administrative genius, and political insights one of the most important leaders of the postWorld War II conservative movement...
...In this book he makes the case repeatedly that the liberal media are liberal beyond the limits of the tolerable...
...Now Bob was heaving up editorial inspirations...
...for what it is, to wit, the most fantastic agglutination of antiAmericans and antiSemites under the sun...
...In it there is only one point I failed to make...
...Inside the Asylum: Why the U.N...
...60 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 2004 new Senior Editorial Advisor said with a wink...
...Actually I believe that was a problem in 1938, and if in a decade the U.N...
...Once again Bill Simon has amazed me...
...However, I recognize that many find it comprehensible and even workable...
...He writes with flair, wit, and insight...
...It captured one side of Bill...
...It is as though the year were 1938 and the League of Nations was still excogitating what a fascist might be...
...Well, of all the virtues, humility is the one that always baffles me...
...So I shall just call this occasional exercise "The Library" Never ignore a Bartley editorial recommendation, I say...
...has gone the way of the League of Nations, I shall not be surprised...
...and Old Europe Are Worse Than You Think Jed Babbin (Regnery Publishing, 196 pages, $27.95) Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media L. Brent Bozell III (Crown Forum, 278 pages, $25.95) Reviewed by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...Call it "Bob's Library," our R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s most recent book is Madame Hillary (Regnery Publishing...
...Yet Republicans have a record of political languor, as they displayed during the Clinton impeachment and as Barr describes in this fine book...
...Babbin's book is a beacon into the future of world government...
...There is nobody who admires or respects Bill Simon more than I do...
...Bozell has been hounding the fatuous mainstream ideologues for years about their bigotry and the dishonesty with which they deny it...
...Barr is a former prosecutor and as a member of Congress he had greater insight into Clinton's misbehavior than almost anyone I know...
...Had Barr been given an attentive hearing, quite possibly all the Republicans on Capitol Hill and a number of Democrats would have understood Clinton's wrongdoing and President Al Gore would be the 21st century's Gerald Ford...
...As Bill was deeply involved in the American Olympic movement, I was not surprised to see a passage from my friend Bob Knight...
...Knight admired Bill's toughness, but there was another side to Bill, a side that was almost saintly...
...Finally, let me not end with out commending L. Brent Bozell III on his very good book, Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media...
...It includes italicized passages from friends who remembered him at crucial points in their lives...
...Knight recalls how Bill, then head of the committee, "got up to address the committee and said, `Before we get started, just let me say how pleased I am that Bob Knight is going to be our basketball coach.' There wasn't going to be any question and there wasn't going to be any debate...
...Jed Babbin has been strutting his stuff on our pages and on our website for years, and Regnery Publishing finally seduced him into displaying all his journalistic talents on the perfect cadaver, the United Nations...
...Readers will be surprised to see it, but it is here in his reflections on his faith and most poignantly on his marriages...
...You read a lot of books," he said to me...
...Then he suggested that I undertake an occasional review of books I have read with relish, particularly books our readers will like...
...I could expand on these matters, but actually I already have...
...S o HAS BOB BARR with his illuminating reminiscences of his time in government and during our mutual game of pinning the tail on Bill Clinton...
...The Democrats consider it the answer to all of America's foreign policy problems, but Babbin reveals it as corrupt and timorous...
...He simply eliminated any opposition...
...The Library A Time for Reflection: An Autobiography William E. Simon, with John M. Caher (Regnery Publishing, 352 pages, $27.95) The Meaning of Is: The Squandered Impeachment and Wasted Legacy of William Jefferson Clinton Bob Barr (Stroud & Hall, 246 pages, $26) Inside the Asylum: Why the U.N...
...is unable even to define terrorism...
...and Old Europe Are Worse Than You Think combines Babbin's reportage and analysis to reveal the U.N...
...and the timorous condition of Old Europe, a land soon to be the object of inquiry not by historians but by archaeologists...
...BOUT THIS TIME A YEAR AGO, Bob Bartley, having retired from his throne at the Wall Street ournal, was sitting around with Al Regnery and me catapulting ideas into the air on how we could make AmSpec a better read for our loyal customers...
...As TV ratings suggest, the dodo's fate is about to be the media's...
...In this splendid book, he tells why Clinton should have been impeached not just for lying and obstruction but for serious breaches of national security and violations of campaign finance law...
...We had already settled on the new layout—a layout he orchestrated with Mario Garcia, the brilliant redesigner of the Journal...
...He was among the most passionate public figures I have ever met, and this book is fired by that passion...
...The Meaning of Is: The Squandered Impeachment and Wasted Legacy of William Jefferson Clinton tells readers things they might not know about Clinton and, most importantly, the attempt to impeach him...
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...In this little masterpiece he has revealed the futility of the U.N...
...Which brings me to another man whose influence on this magazine has been enormous and who, like Bob, has moved on to a more splendid residence, Bill Simon...
...At a meeting of the Olympic Committee in 1984 there was going to be a move to oust Knight as BOOKS IN REVIEW Olympic basketball coach...
...I wrote the book's Foreword...
...He was tough but surprisingly adroit in getting his way...
...The book echoes with Bill's voice and thoughts and principles...
...In an age when the new threat to freedom is terrorism, Babbin demonstrates that the U.N...
Vol. 37 • October 2004 • No. 8
