The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE
To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

[PDF file]: To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

The secret library of Georges Armoulian by Anthony Frewin

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] stated when Frewin’s preface is headed by a quotation allegedly from FBI taps on the phone of Chicago mobster Sam Giancana, in which he is discussing the new novel by Joan Didion. ‘Preface? What’s with these fucking prefaces? They’re all at it. You know I don’t like the fucking things. I say what I’m […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

Lobster Issue

Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA Shane O’Sullivan1 New York: Skyhorse Books, 2018; £20.00 h/b; 536 pages, notes, index Robin Ramsay So what can a major reappraisal of Watergate tell us in 2018 that we didn’t know before? Surprisingly little about the major events. But this isn’t the fault of the author, who […]

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] there have been plenty of hangers-on and promoters of his ideas who see in neutral sounding concepts (such as public choice theory) the hammers to destroy the New Deal/social democrat/Keynesian thinking that dominated for so long. Buchanan worked with better known figures such as Milton Friedman and advised General Pinochet in Chile; but it […]

Last Second in Dallas, by Josiah Thompson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] bystanders, the police officers, and the railroad men (principally S. M. Holland and Lee Bowers). Worthy stuff, but hasn’t this been done before? Does he bring anything new to the discussion? Not that I can see. Then there’s a demolishing of Luis Alvarez and his watermelons and the ‘jet effect’ (JFK’s head is forced […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who k new no economics. John Hoskyns, a businessman recruited to join the Thatcher team as Head of the Policy Unit, records in his memoir: I had been concerned […]

view from bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who k new no economics. John Hoskyns, a businessman recruited to join the Thatcher team as Head of the Policy Unit, records in his memoir: I had been concerned […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] why did they support the EU? In The Sunday Times of 14 June 2009 Bojan Pancevski and Robert Watts had a story which began: ’Glenys Kinnock, the new minister for Europe, has amassed six publicly funded pensions worth £185,000 per year with her husband Neil, the former leader of the Labour party. They have […]

Accessibility Toolbar