Inherited Estates

Nobody’s Fool Richard Russo Random House, 1993 Book Review Sully has a chip on his shoulder the size of his long–dead old man, Big Jim Sullivan, a mean drunk and domestic menace, still as big as a door frame in his memories—a ghost he still gives the finger to each time he passes the graveyard. A profile of improvidence and…

What Bobos Want

The most insightful book of this election year has been the best-selling Bobos in Paradise (Simon & Schuster, 2000). David Brooks, a self-confessed “Bobo” who writes for the conservative journal, The Weekly Standard, argues that today’s ruling elites—the dot-com millionaires, the celebrity pundits and media empire-builders—along with the millions of educated beneficiaries of our booming “information economy,” constitute a new…