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Interview with Martin Scorsese

Old Soldiers

Overrated/Underrated Issue 1999

Overrated/Underrated Issue 2000

Overrated/Underrated Issue 2002

Overrated/Underrated Issue 2005

Overrated/Underrated Mayors

Overrated/Underrated Presidents

The Immigrant Experience

 


Review of Her Dream of Dreams

Review of The Hatbox Baby

 


One Year Later

September 11, 2001

The Ruin

 


Before the Storm

The Improved Man

The Magic Reagan

The Party of Huah

Schlesinger: A Life in
the Twentieth Century

Barack Hoover Obama

 


Ford's Paradox

Machine Politics

 


The Last Epic

Review of Metropolis

Review of The Golden Age

 


Mind Bomb

The House That Ruth Didn’t Build

 


Review of Mrs. Astor’s New York

 


A Coney Island Kind of Fun

A Piano Tinkling in the
Next Apartment...

Before Bartman, there was Merkle

Empire

Harlem Now and Then

Hyde Park

If I Never Get Back...

New York Was So Much Older Then

On the Bowery

Review of 102 Minutes

Review of 1491

Review of Abe

Review of American Scoundrel

Review of Five Points

Review of Lincoln

Review of Lincoln as Originally
Reported in the New York Times

Review of Nathaniel’s Nutmeg

Review of Street Justice

Review of The Island at
the Center of the World

Review of The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty

Review of The Luckiest Man

Review of The Navigator of New York

Review of Triangle

Review of Ulysses S. Grant

Talking Trash

The America that Was

The Day It Rained Candy Bars

The Good News Bears

The Guilt Dogging the Greatest Generation

The Worst Ballpark in the World

Tweed’s Place

 


Review of City of God

 


Review of Sweet Land Stories

Review of Waterborne

Why America Loved Roosevelt

 

village voice
Bloggers Vs. an Author: No One Wins

 

Wilson Quarterly
The World on Sunday

 

 

 

American Greats
Berlin Airlift

Coney Island

FDR's Fireside Chats


Freedom Riders


GI Bill


Lend-Lease


Marshall Plan


Steel and Iron Workers


The Populists


Yellow Fever

All essays are from American Greats
Edited by Robert A. Wilson and Stanley Marcus Public Affairs Press, a member of the Perseus Group

 

Contributions to
Published Books

Foreward to The Natural

America's Mayor,
The Hidden History of Rudy Giuliani's
New York

Rudy Giuliani and the Myth
of Modern New York

 


The Colbert Report - Political Humor

CNNfn – Tough Call

Coney Island – Documentary

C–Span – Washington Journal

Emma Goldman – Documentary

Northwest Bookfest – Panel

NY1 – Close Up

The Today Show – Book Club

Paddy Whacked – Documentary

 

 

 

 

 

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