Books by Mark Gerson and Complete Book Reviews
Mark Gerson, Author Madison Books $30.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-56833-054-9
Contrary to widespread belief, neoconservatives generally support the welfare state as providing an essential safety net, though neocons such as Irving Kristol and Michael Novak want to restructure welfare programs in order to limit bureaucracy,...
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Mark Gerson, Author Free Press $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-82756-8
Appreciation of Roman Catholic schools is much a part of current discussions about how to help beleaguered public education. How St. Luke's, a small, inner-city high school in New Jersey, achieved small victories is reported on here with insight by...
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Mark Gerson, Author, James Q. Wilson, Foreword by Addison Wesley Publishing Company $27.5 (467p) ISBN 978-0-201-47968-3
The Essential Neoconservative Reader, edited by Mark Gerson with a foreword by James Q. Wilson, lives up to its promise as ""the definitive collection of neoconservative thought."" Opening with Norman Podhoretz's controversial, legendary ""My Negro...
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Mark Gerson. St. Martin’s Essentials, $29.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-62424-6
Gerson (In the Classroom), host of the podcast The Rabbi’s Husband, provides a revelatory addition to the voluminous literature about the Haggadah. In discussing well-known sections of the text used on Passover—such as the four children or the 10...
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