Book Reviews
Citadel’s Griffin Skirts Disaster, Quant Godfather Fumes: Books On Aug. 7, 2007, Matthew Rothman of
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. got off a red-eye flight in San
Francisco and went to see a potential client.
Willie Mays, Acrobat of the Outfield, Wins Graceful Biography Willie Mays had it all: two Most
Valuable Player awards, 12 Gold Gloves, 660 home runs, a place
in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, even an honorary
doctorate from Dartmouth. He had everything -- except a first-
rate biography.
Muhammad Ali, Achilles Had No Doggies in Fight: Lewis Lapham In 1966, Muhammad Ali refused to
serve in the U.S. Army. “I ain’t got no quarrel with the Viet
Cong,” he said. “I am not going ten thousand miles to help
murder, kill and burn other people to simply help continue the
domination of white slave masters over dark people.”
Immortal Tobacco Farmer Helped Cure Polio, Flew With Astronauts Henrietta Lacks died of cervical
cancer in a “colored” hospital ward in Baltimore in 1951. She
would have gone forever unnoticed by the outside world if not
for the dime-sized slice of her tumor sent to a lab for research
eight months earlier.
Egypt’s Gilded Teens Get Hooked on Heroin, Self-Destruct: Books Fast cars, loose women and drug highs
are things most people don’t associate with Egypt, land of
Pharaohs, crowded mosques and worshipers who pray in the
streets.
Boulud’s $150 Burger, $2.9 Million Coffee Stump Buyers: Books If you have money to burn, three
gentlemen can help.
‘Psycho’ Meets Pentagon as Two Men Talk, Drink in DeLillo Novel A Museum of Modern Art installation
screens Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” at two frames per second,
which is very slow. It’s called “24 Hour Psycho.”
Paulson Defends Lehman Rout, Gives Bush Primer on Hedges: Books Henry M. Paulson Jr. recalls dining
with some of Wall Street’s most powerful bankers on June 26,
2007, not long before the credit bubble imploded.