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Book Review: “From Left to Right” The Story of Holocaust Historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz By Helen Epstein Posted By Ruth King on December 10th, 2020
This biography of Lucy S. Dawidowicz performs the invaluable function of gathering relevant documents and drafting a narrative that rescues a fascinating historian from oblivion. But it does not add much to the history of the New York intellectuals.
From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History by Nancy Sinkoff. Wayne State University Press, 538 pp., $34.99.
There were several reasons I wanted to read a biography of historian and public intellectual Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1915-1990). First,
general eric holder who says it potentially could be involved in the russia investigation. if the president offers pardons to those caught up in the mueller probe, does he then possibly but himself in legal jeopardy? alex, that s a great question because we all know that the president s pardon power is unferted. he can part when he pleases who he pleases. once he makes a decision to pardon somebody then the mueller team can use as evidence of his intent for what he s thinking. why did he pardon that person. was it for a corrupter. purpose which could feed into a collusion or conspiracy case. what i ll say, we ve heard talk about who the president might pardon, michael cohen or michael flynn and i think we need to parse that out a little more specifically. because these two men are in
i have heard of people unrecusing themselves. rarely does that happen. i had a personal experience with recusal when i was prosecuting a murder defendant. and one of the criminal associates of that murder defendant we learned was a hit man who was following me. albeit fleetingly, but that was a bit too exciting for even this career prosecutor. so, i was instantly recused from the entire office. my entire office from the district attorney s office for district of columbia was recused from the case. and we had to bring a prosecutor over from the eastern district of virginia just to handle the prosecution because now i ve become a witness. i actually had to testify in the trial against the hit man. and i couldn t possibly serve as both witness and investigators and prosecutor on the case. it s an obvious conflict. okay. thanks for weighing in on that. i m sorry, that must have been pretty frightening for that fleeting period of time. not my favorite case. let s get to former attorne
signals to his base that is his base of white voters, i m with you. and it is not, as laura said, it is not following the very well-established and well-grounded process that previous presidents, not just obama, but every president before him has followed. there s an order about these thing its. there s a logic to them. there s steps that you go through. he s not doing that. john harwood, laura bassett, thank you for weighing in. in the case, congressional candidates on a white nationalists issue. with topics of hate. coming up with one of those candidates. me but i always dreamed about living in your radio how do you like me now?!