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 29 (1995) £££
[…] CPGB’s industrial department (which I assume was the recipient of much of it) and its relations with the rest of the Party. There is interesting (but unsourced) new material on the link-man with Moscow, Reuben Falber, which shows him taking charge of the Party’s secret money in the 1930s when he created the hitherto […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] Vigilant State: the London Metropolitan Special Branch Before the First World War Bernard Porter (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1987) Porter is an academic historian working an interesting new seam, and this is really very good indeed. If anything his account of the SB’s fabrication of an ‘anarchist’ and ‘Irish threat’ in the 1880s and […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] up in court.’ Davies dismisses both the Belgrano papers and the Sizewell theory of Murrell’s death. The latter he rejects by asserting that that Hilda had nothing new to say about nuclear power: ‘No one who examined Hilda Murrell’s work on Sizewell could ever point to any fact or argument which she had uncovered […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
Volume 20 of Research in Political Economy, edited by Paul Zarembka, titled ‘Confronting 9-11, Ideologies of Race, and Eminent Economists,’ (JAI/Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, 2002) contains important essays on the current US administration’s foreign policy by Peter Dale Scott and David MacGregor. The abstract to Scott’s essay is : ‘The United States […]
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 10 (1986) £££
[…] print, and three examples of the kind of micro-textual analysis which the serious JFK assassination researcher does so well. Editor is Jerry Rose, State University College, Fredonia, New York 14063. Intelligence/Parapolitics We should have given a lot more attention to the Paris-based Intelligence/Parapolitics than we have to date. It really is wonderfully interesting, simply, […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] a key figure both in creating Hitler’s anti-semitism and, through the work done by his student Alan Turing at Bletchley Park, in defeating it. More detective work on Wittgenstein’s life in Cambridge during the 1930s now seems essential. Perhaps some answers will emerge, not from Cambridge, but from the new treasure-trove of Russian archives.
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
Dick Russell New York: Skyhorse, 2008, h/b, $24.95 Russell wrote The Man Who Knew Too Much, about the late Richard Nagell. A couple of weeks before the assassination of JFK, Nagell walked into a bank, fired two shots into the ceiling and waited for the police to come and arrest him. Years later he […]
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 […]
