Both Sides of the Line My Coach, the Boston Mob Enforcer; My Mentor, the Murderer; the True Story of Clyde Dempsey and the 1974 Don Bosco Bears Kevin Kelly High school players in a working class neighborhood of the 1970s gain desperately needed structure and guidance from Jack “Clyde” Dempsey, a scrappy, charismatic coach who… Continue reading Both Sides of the Line
Category: Biography
Dispatches from the Eastern Front
Dispatches from the Eastern Front A Political Education from the Nixon Years to the Age of Obama Gerald Felix Warburg How does one arrive at a life in politics and policy? What happens to one’s ideals when confronted with the reality that the only way to get things done in Washington is compromise? Who are… Continue reading Dispatches from the Eastern Front
Lenny, Lefty, and the Chancellor
Lenny, Lefty, and the Chancellor C. Fraser Smith The Len Bias Tragedy and the Search for Reform in Big-Time College Basketball Where were you on June 19, 1986? That’s the day when Len Bias, one of the greats of the college basketball game, a player seemingly destined for NBA stardom, died of a cocaine overdose.… Continue reading Lenny, Lefty, and the Chancellor
The Art of Acquiring
The Art of Acquiring A Portrait of Etta & Claribel Cone Mary Gabriel For four and a half decades, Etta and Claribel Cone roamed artists’ studios and art galleries in Europe, building one of the largest, most important art collections in the world. At one time, these two independently wealthy Jewish women from Baltimore received… Continue reading The Art of Acquiring
The Last of the Black Emperors
The Last of the Black Emperors Jonetta Rose Barras The Hollow Comeback of Marion Barry in a New Age of Black Leaders The 1990 FBI videotape of Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry smoking crack transfixed television viewers nationwide. Shouting now-notorious obscenities at the woman who helped agents trap him, Barry was publicly disgraced, his personal… Continue reading The Last of the Black Emperors