Lewis M. Weinstein's Blog, page 23
August 6, 2013
* Lew’s review of “Those Angry Days” by Lynne Olson … research for my novel-in-progress
An absolutely fantastic read. Olson writes history with the pace and intensity of a novel. Characters (real characters) are exposed bit by bit through their actions to have their strengths (Wendell Willkie) and weaknesses (FDR and Lindbergh) picked open to view. *** I have always liked FDR but now like him much less. I have […]
July 30, 2013
* My novel CASE CLOSED may yet make the news … a long-delayed GAO report, evaluating the FBI’s investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks, promised for September 2013, may be issued “some time next year”
There’s a story about Amerithrax in today’s Frederick News-Post with mention that GAO may issue its report sometime next year. “Scientists who worked with Ivins still question government’s methods,” July 29, 2013 … http://www.fredericknewspost.com/news... It is abundantly clear from thousands of posts on my CASE CLOSED blog … (http://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordp...) … that the FBI has not presented evidence that […]
July 29, 2013
* meeting a Goodreads friend in Villefranche
I have been a member of Goodreads for several years, and have many GR friends with whom I share comments and opinions about books. But this is the first time Pat and I have had the pleasure of actually meeting one of my GR friends who we did not know before. Trevor and Julia live […]
July 25, 2013
* Lew’s first international book signing
What do you do when in Madrid? Go to the bookstore and see if your book is on the shelf. It was! Hereje (The Heretic in Spanish) was published a year ago. What a thrill! So I did my first international book signing. Purchase The Heretic at … http://www.amazon.com/The-Heretic-ebo...
June 20, 2013
* It’s time to write more chapters of “Choosing Hitler”
Read the draft prologue of “Choosing Hitler” at … http://lewweinsteinauthorblog.com/201... *** *** For the past several months I have not written a single word on my new novel, tentatively titled “Choosing Hitler.” What I have done is read and take thousands of notes from varied sources leading to January 30, 1933, that crucial day when […]
* It’s time to write
*** For the past several months I have not written a single word on my new novel, tentatively titled “Choosing Hitler.” What I have done is read and take thousands of notes from varied sources leading to January 30, 1933, that crucial day when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. I will now carry forward […]
* Prologue to Lew’s novel-in-progress … tentatively titled “Choosing Hitler”
NOTE: after you read the Prologue, please feel free to comment and tell me what you think *** PROLOGUE (New York, 1989) (draft at June 2013) *** “I want to write about the people in your Nuremberg case,” Marissa Whitten said between the first and second innings at Yankee Stadium. “After all these years?” A […]
* Prologue to Lew’s novel-in-progress (draft at June 2013) … tentatively titled “Choosing Hitler”
*** PROLOGUE “I want to write about the people in your Nuremberg case,” Marissa Whitten said between the first and second innings at Yankee Stadium. “After all these years?” A frown added to the lines in her father’s face. “Why dredge that up again? You know I’ve never considered it the shining moment of my […]
June 18, 2013
* Lew’s review of “Hitler – the Missing Years” by Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl
Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl was often in Hitler’s company from the early 1920s to the mid 1930s. Harvard educated and a friend (so he says) of FDR, Putzi was Hitler’s link to the foreign press corp. He has much to say about personal moments and matters (eg, Hitler was impotent) but all of this was written […]
June 17, 2013
” Lew’s review of “My First Seventy-six Years” by Hjalmar Schacht
Hjalmar Schacht was perhaps the most competent person ever in the employ of the Nazis. He was President of the Reichsbank and Economic Minister. In 1938, he fell out with Hitler and was dismissed. Later, he participated in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, for which he was arrested and sent to a concentration camp. […]
