by Juan Williams
From Philanthropy magazine, Spring 2012
Juan Williams of Fox News reviews a new book on the historic collaboration between Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington. Together, the two men—one the leader of Sears Roebuck; the other, a former slave—built more than 5,000 schools for African Americans throughout the segregated South. Read Williams’ review of “You Need a Schoolhouse” by Stephanie Deutsch.
by Frederick M. Hess
From Philanthropy magazine, Winter 2012
Steven Brill has written a good book on some recent developments in K–12 education reform. Too bad it lacks context and perspective. Frederick M. Hess reviews “Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools.”
by John Steele Gordon
From Philanthropy magazine, Winter 2012
The rich history of American philanthropy has been oddly neglected over the years. Does Olivier Zunz’s new book fill the narrative gap? John Steele Gordon reviews “Philanthropy in America: A History” in the Winter 2012 issue of Philanthropy magazine.
by Stephanie Deutsch
From Philanthropy magazine, Fall 2011
Stephanie Deutsch reviews Alfred Perkins’ biography of Edwin Rogers Embree, the man charged with sunsetting the Rosenwald Fund.
by Adam Keiper
From Philanthropy magazine, Fall 2011
Adam Keiper reviews ‘Idea Man’, the new memoir by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and finds the Microsoft co-founder’s philanthropy may be more revealing than his new autobiography.
From Philanthropy magazine, Fall 2011
Short reviews of new books on the Catholic lay vocation, the Medill family of Chicago, and charitable effectiveness.
by James Panero
From Philanthropy magazine, Winter 2011
The Rockefeller family has long been among the nation’s most generous patrons of high culture. James Panero assesses the family’s contributions to the Museum of Modern Art, New York’s Riverside Church, Colonial Williamsburg, Rockefeller Center, the Cloisters, Lincoln Center, the Asia Society, and much else besides, in his review of Suzanne Loebl’s America’s Medicis.
by Tod Lindberg
From Philanthropy magazine, Spring 1997
Not since New York magazine in the heyday of the yuppie or Manhattan Inc. at the height of the “Decade of Greed” has there been such a publication as The American Benefactor. Sure, Nelson W....
by Andrew S. Natsios
From Philanthropy magazine, Spring 1997
Using Somalia in the 1980s as a case study on the effectiveness of development assistance, as Michael Maren does in his latest book, is comparable to using 19th-century New York’s Tammany...
by Jeffrey Bell
From Philanthropy magazine, Summer 1997
Opponents thought they had driven a stake through the heart of the parental rights movement last year when a parental rights initiative (Amendment 17) was defeated in Colorado by a margin of...
by Martin Morse Wooster
From Philanthropy magazine, Summer 1997
Nearly everyone who looks at welfare now admits that certain truths are undisputed. We know that welfare tends to break families and keep them broken, that welfare checks demean the people...
by Charles R. Kesler
From Philanthropy magazine, Summer 1997
Before William F. Buckley Jr. called himself a conservative, he was a campus rebel. God and Man at Yale, his first book, issued an eloquent, bracing call for his fellow alumni to wake up to...
by Ramesh Ponnuru
From Philanthropy magazine, Fall 1997
ONCE UPON A TIME, BUSINESS existed “to meet people’s needs.” Back then, the church was “the most powerful force in society.” Later, the nation-state took its place. Both institutions’ “reason...
by Joseph J. Jacobs
From Philanthropy magazine, Fall 1997
ECONOMISTS PREDICT AN EXPONENTIAL expansion of philanthropic giving in the coming decade, but their explanations for the boom are not always complete. For instance, one little-discussed...
by Tom Riley
From Philanthropy magazine, Fall 1997
We are the most marketed-to people in human history. Advertisements for products and services have insinuated themselves into every nook and cranny of our lives, leading most of us to develop...