Einstein's Jewish science

Judith Goldsmith, a favorite Hewlett Woodmere patron, asked for this book. She always has interesting questions and requests; always. O, for more such patrons.

Einstein's Jewish science : physics at the intersection of politics and religion

Left change

American dreamers : how the left changed a nation

Leak

Leak : why Mark Felt became Deep Throat : Holland, Max.

Fundamentalist politics

Sharlet, Jeff. (2008). The family : the secret fundamentalism at the heart of American power. NY : HarperCollins.

Age of abundance

Lindsey, Brink. (2007). The age of abundance: how prosperity transformed America's politics and culture. NY: Collins.   306.342 L

Kirkus Reviews

Americans have become libertarian and don't even know it, declares the research head of the (libertarian) Cato Institute.

A thoughtful attempt to explain—and claim—the broad center in the middle of our political squabbling.

Nixonland

Perlstein, Rick. Nixonland: the rise of a president and the fracturing of America. New York: Scribner.

Kirkus: A richly detailed descent into the inferno—that is, the years when Richard Milhouse Nixon, "a serial collector of resentments," ruled the land. [sic: Milhous] A solid work of political history, if necessarily long and grim in the telling.

Tommy the Cork

McKean, David. (2004). Tommy the Cork : Washington's ultimate insider from Roosevelt to Reagan. S. Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth.



A prominent figure in the pages of Scorpions, Tommy the COrk had the ear of Justices and FDR. Douglas, Black, Brandeis and Jackson owed him their posts to some degree or other.

Happy Days will return

Nothing to fear : FDR's inner circle and the hundred days that created modern America / Adam Cohen.

 More about the men around him than about FDR.