EDITOR'S PICKS

GEORGE W. LIEBMANN ’60

The Fall of the House of Speyer

I.B. Tauris

Historian Liebmann sheds new light on the third largest invest- ment banking firm in the United States at the turn of the 20th cen- tury, which financed the Southern Pacific Railroad, Germany’s Weimar Republic and the London Under- ground—before being undone by nationalist passions aroused by World War I.

M O RTO N KO N D RAC K E ’ 6 0

Jack Kemp

Sentinel

Longtime journalist Kondracke draws on never-published papers and the Kemp oral history project to trace the life story of one of the most important Republicans from the 1970s through the 1990s. It’s the definitive biography of the “bleeding-heart conservative” who, according to the author, redefined American politics.

E L I SA ( RU S H ) P O RT ’ 86

The New Generation Breast Cancer Book

Ballantine Books

Breast cancer survival rates are at an all-time high, and so is the informa- tion—and misinformation—available online and from well-meaning family and friends. Here the chief of breast surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Cen- ter offers a guide to cutting-edge care, from testing to treatments to living as a “survivor.”

E L E N I ( TSA KO P O U LOS) KO U N A LA K I S ’ 89

Madam Ambassador

New Press

The former U.S. ambassador to Hungary recaps three years of diplomatic life in Budapest, from lessons at the U.S. State Depart- ment’s “charm school” to trips into war zones. Part foreign policy memoir, part inspiring family story, Kounalakis reveals what it’s like to represent the U.S. govern- ment abroad.

C H R I STO P H E R R E A ’ 99

The Age of Irreverence

University of California Press

Rea, an Asian studies professor at the University of British Columbia, describes how cultural expressions of laughter—jokes, play, mockery, farce and humor—were used by cul- tural commentators to make veiled critiques of China’s government as it entered the modern age.

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