…can be found in this post here. So I won’t add anything except to say it demonstrates the difference between a mensch and the chorus of pipsqueaks (great descritive word, no?) You know who you are.
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BUY The Shakespeare Wars
Random House, September 2006
Electrifying. A spectacular book.
—Cynthia Ozick
…a thrilling personal confrontation…The Shakespeare Wars comes to us in waves of new revelations
—Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate
Acclaimed journalist Ron Rosenbaum wrestles with the weightiest issues of Shakespeare studies in a down-to-earth manner that readers will applaud.
—Publisher’s Weekly
Cultural journalism of the highest order.
—Kirkus Reviews
Timely not least for the economy and clarity with which he outlines the casus belli…with Rosenbaum’s dispatches we now have a better sense of what the fuss is about.
—John Sutherland, The Financial Times
BUY Explaining Hitler
A remarkable journey by one of the most original journalists and writers of our time.
—David Remnick
A work of importance and fascination.
—George Steiner, the [U.K.] Observer
A provacative work of cultural history that is as compelling as it is thoughtful, as readable as it is smart..Mr. Rosenbaum has made an important contribution to our understanding not just of Hitler, but of the cultural processes by which we try to come to terms with history as well... He has written an exciting, lucid book.
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Intriguing, thought provoking and intelligent.
—Ian Kershaw in The Guardian [U.k.]
Brilliant...restlessly probing and deeply intelligent.
—Lance Morrow, Time
In Explaining Hitler, profound historical questions spring urgently and hauntingly to life.
—Sam Tanenhaus
Cultural criticism served up as riveting narrative history
—Marc Fisher The Washington Post
BUY The Secret Parts of Fortune
Ron Rosenbaum is one of the great masters of the metaphysical detective story, a nonfiction writer in the spirit of Borges, Nabokov and Poe.
—Errol Morris (director of The Fog of War)
Few journalists inspire the kind of cult following that Rosenbaum has
—Scott McLemee Newsday
I plan on hanging Ron Rosenbaum’s ‘marriage proposal’ [column] in a prominent place. Should my husband begin to take me for granted, he will be reminded that I am not without options.
—Rosanne Cash
You made me look like a f_____g lunatic.
—Oliver Stone
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1. charlie finch:Iran is next. Khameini is inviting an attack. The reason for attacking Gaza is precisely the strengthening of Hamas and Hezbollah by Iran. It is only a matter of months until either Hamas, Hezbollah or both have, at the minimum, a dirty bomb. Because the Israeli government perceives Obama as a de facto pacifist, time is also of the essence on that score.
Dec 29, 2008 - 6:55 pm 2. Chris H.:I’m puzzled by what exactly Israel has done by way of recognizing the existence of a viable Palestinian state.
Dec 30, 2008 - 9:08 am 3. Martin Berman-Gorvine:Frightening times. I am dismayed that so many peaceniks, including many in my own family, cannot seem to understand that Israel has absolutely no choice but to fight back. I lived in Israel during the years of the Oslo disaster, I went to peace rallies and shouted myself hoarse with the “peace camp” half of the population. I was in Israeli uniform doing guard duty the night Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, and I wept openly, unashamedly, for the murder of a military hero who was not afraid to stretch out the hand of peace. Unfortunately, everything the “crazy” Israeli right wing said about the intentions of Arafat and the Palestinian leadership turned out to be true. We stretched out the hand of peace and got it cut off. And now Iran and its proxies are feverishly working to set up nuclear gas chambers. God help us all save Israel and all of civilization.
Dec 30, 2008 - 9:59 am 4. Chris H.:Does bulldozing homes, cutting off access to food, water, energy supplies and work while building homes for 250,000+ Israelis religious fanatic “settlers” demonstrate how one “stretched out the hand of peace and got it cut off”?
Dec 30, 2008 - 11:55 am 5. WR Jonas:It would appear more and more likely that this issue will be Obamas first test. It seems unlikely this will be resolved in a few weeks and then finally Obama will have to make a decision and stand by his own word. I can see where this could be the first time in his life he will actually have to do that.
He will not personally suffer the direct consequences of his actions but will experience the effect of his final action. Up till now I doubt he has ever had to put his reputation, his opinion or his intellect on the line, let alone his own ass.
Then we may begin to assess the “stuff” he is made of. However……
He could follow the Clinton model,ie take credit if it succeeds or blame it on your Secretary of State if it fails.
Dec 30, 2008 - 2:05 pm 6. Eric Smith:World War II never ended; it is still being fought in the Middle East. Muslim Arabs are trying to bring about Hitler’s Final Solution, cheered on by their co-religionists in the US, while not-very-useful idiots wring their hands and whine that Israel should make only a “proportional response.” God bless Israel.
Dec 31, 2008 - 3:15 pm 7. Ace:“until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew
Jan 2, 2009 - 7:26 amwhether this one was that one or that one was this one
or which one was what one… or what one was who.”