Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
Thomas J. and Kathleen Schaeper Herghahn Books, Oxford and New York, 1998 No price stated Chatty, readable account of American Rhodes Scholars. Although full of interesting anecdotes about individuals, this makes no serious attempt at the second half of the subtitle. Despite listing the large numbers of Rhodies in the Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] of capital, regulation theory, etc.) – each of which is a very scarce accomplishment, but any brain that can do both together is almost unheard of. This new book is slightly more readable and more sparing in the empirical detail, but every bit as theoretical. It poses the question: how can van der Pijl […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] from two speeches by Judge Joe Brown, one of the judges involved in the civil proceedings successfully brought by William Pepper against Lloyd Jowers and unnamed co-conspirators for the unlawful death of Martin Luther King. A black American, Judge Brown was too sympathetic to the plaintiffs in the case and was removed during the […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] and they have tended to remain in Eire. But British Intelligence now has wind of a big recruiting campaign in the U.S. backed by pro-I.R.A. organisations in New York. There is no shortage of ex-Vietnam veterans – many of them Catholics of Irish origin – prepared to hire out their services. And the U.S. […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
William F. Pepper Carroll and Graf, New York, 1995, but distributed in the UK by WWM at £21.00 Tony Frewin mentioned this book in his survey of the JFK and related literature in Lobster 31. It deserves more than that. William Pepper is an American lawyer with an office in London as well as […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] what global empire-building looks like: buy our seeds or else. (In the British empire the injunctions were different: ‘buy our opium’ and ‘buy our cotton’ or else.) Notes Jeremy Laurence, ‘Inquiry into Dr David Kelly’s death was flawed, say experts’, The Independent 17 September 2004 ‘Kelly death paramedics query verdict’, The Observer, 12 December […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] to do any satisfactorily. One should always be careful when questioning an author’s research, but the absence of a bibliography means we can only go by the notes appended at the end of the text, and these reveal little original research. Also, there seem to be obvious omissions from the possible published sources for […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] sent from Fred Holroyd on May 13th 1987 Dear sir, It comes as no surprise that Mrs Thatcher over reacted to the media attempting to discover the real facts of the Gibraltar shootings. Her attitude is vulnerable to close scrutiny, especially in the two areas of SAS operational deployment and the ethics of soldiering. […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] a bombshell. (Quite what the previous history looked like I cannot imagine: they just upped and left of their own accord?) For his contributions to the ‘ new Israeli history’ and later for refusing to serve in the Israeli army on the West Bank, Morris became a celebrity. I kept bumping into his writing […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] Of course it wasn’t anything resembling a ‘war’ at all. Even a very Kennedy-phile account such as that in chapter two of Victor Navasky’s Kennedy Justice (Atheneum, New York, 1971) makes it clear that ‘campaign’ or ‘drive’ is certainly a better term than ‘war’ which suggests a scale and commitment which is inappropriate. (As […]
