General News

Rubin on Stegner Bio

Stegner's wild West: Wallace Stegner ---reviewed by Martin Rubin; Sunday, February 24, 2008 (SF Chronicle) Wallace Stegner and the American West By Philip L. Fradkin Knopf; 369 pages; $27.50 "Author of many books on the American West, western editor of Audubon magazine and a Pulitzer Prize-winning…

March 28, 2008

Weise Award

Congratulations to Steve Weise, who's recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Business Law Section of the California State Bar. The Section's profile of Steve notes: "Steve is a nationally recognized expert in all areas of commercial law. He is a member of the Permanent Editorial…

March 23, 2008

Play GoCrossCampus

Matthew O. Brimer, Yale '09, invites us all to play a Yale-alumni-team version of his company's online computer game GoCrossCampus. Click on the thumbnail image below to see the invitation.

March 21, 2008

NYC Class Lunch Fri. Mar. 14

The Class of 1971 table at the NYC Yale Club will be held in the Tap Room on Friday, March 14, 2008 at 12:30 pm--classmates who want to attend and haven't RSVP'd already should call Jim Kaplan at 212-471-3229.

March 13, 2008

Photo: Bruce Holliday & Kids

Click the thumbnail below for a photo of proud dad Bruce Holliday with his kids Kerry and Christopher: Bruce Holliday with his kids Kerry and Christopher

March 13, 2008

Primps’ Daughter Comments

Bill Primps writes that his daughter Emily (Y '03) has been doing television commentary as a Democratic strategist for Obama--click the link below to see a clip on YouTube: Emily Primps YouTube 2/25/08 (Emily's debut appearance)

March 13, 2008

Rubin: Islamism and Nazism

When Nazis and Islamic extremists bonded By Martin Rubin
February 24, 2008 (Washington Times) JIHAD AND JEW-HATRED: ISLAMISM, NAZISM AND THE ROOTS OF 9/11 By Matthias Kuntzel Telos Press Publishing, $29.95, 180 pages

February 24, 2008

Rubin: Besotted by Books

Besotted by Books 'Editions & Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat,' by Nicholas A. Basbanes (Fine Books Press: 210 pp., $27.95) By Martin Rubin, Special to The (L.A.) Times February 23, 2008

February 24, 2008

Rubin on ‘Fragile Diplomacy’

The Saxon Angle: Porcelain Politics By MARTIN RUBIN Wall Street Journal, February 16, 2008 (p. W11) Fragile Diplomacy Edited by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger Yale University Press, 369 pages, $125

February 22, 2008

Rubin on Kazin

Thursday, February 7, 2008 (SF Chronicle) Review: Kazin's diaries enliven Cook biography By Martin Rubin Alfred Kazin A Biography By Richard M. Cook YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS; 452 PAGES; $35

February 10, 2008