Lars-Erik Nelson

Lars-Erik Nelson (1941-2000) was the Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, and a frequent contributor to the Review.

From the Review

December 21, 2000: Military-Industrial Man

Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics by Robert G. Kaufman

November 30, 2000: The Perils of Secrecy

October 19, 2000: Gore in the Balance

Inventing Al Gore by Bill Turque

The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore by David Maraniss, by Ellen Nakashima

In Praise of Public Life by Joseph I. Lieberman, with Michael D'Orso

August 10, 2000: Party Going

Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us by Roderick P. Hart

No Way to Pick a President by Jules Witcover

July 20, 2000: Watch Out, Democrats!

America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters by Ruy Teixeira, by Joel Rogers

Government Works: Why Americans Need the Feds by Milton J. Esman

The Selling of 'Free Trade': NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy by John R. MacArthur

Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money by David S. Broder

The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century by Dick Morris

June 15, 2000: The Pierce Connection (letter)

May 11, 2000: Fantasia

Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald

February 24, 2000: Legacy

A Charge to Keep by George W. Bush

First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty by Bill Minutaglio

Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush by Molly Ivins, by Lou Dubose

W: Revenge of the Bush Dynasty by Elizabeth Mitchell

January 20, 2000: Clinton & His Enemies

Dead Center: Clinton-Gore Leadership and the Perils of Moderation by James MacGregor Burns, by Georgia J. Sorenson

Vote.com by Dick Morris

Clinton's World: Remaking American Foreign Policy by William G. Hyland

October 21, 1999: The Good Soldier

Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir by John McCain, with Mark Salter

John McCain: An American Odyssey by Robert Timberg

September 23, 1999: Notes from Underground

Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran by Edward Shirley

Irreparable Harm: A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle Over Secrecy and Free Speech by Frank Snepp

August 12, 1999: Undemocratic Vistas

The Corruption of American Politics: What Went Wrong and Why by Elizabeth Drew

Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate by Bob Woodward

August 12, 1999: Chinese Checkers (letter)

July 15, 1999: Washington: The Yellow Peril

Report of the Select Committee on US National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China submitted by Mr. Cox of California, Chairman.

Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised US Security for Chinese Cash by Edward Timperlake, by William C. Triplett II

February 4, 1999: The Republicans' War

The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution? by Linda Killian

Conservative Reformers: The Republican Freshmen and the Lessons of the 104th Congress by Nicol C. Rae

Lessons Learned the Hard Way: A Personal Report by Newt Gingrich

Sexual McCarthyism: Clinton, Starr, and the Emerging Constitutional Crisis by Alan M. Dershowitz

December 3, 1998: Democracy for Sale

The Buying of the Congress: How Special Interests Have Stolen Your Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness by Charles Lewis. the Center for Public Integrity

November 5, 1998: The Not Very Grand Inquisitor

Communication from the Office of the Independent Counsel, Kenneth W. Starr: Appendices to the Referral to the United States House of Representatives pursuant to Title 28, United States Code, §595(c), Parts 1 and 2 Submitted by the Office of the Independent Counsel

…And the Horse He Rode In On: The People v. Kenneth Starr by James Carville

The Clinton Enigma: A Four-and-a-Half-Minute Speech Reveals This President's Entire Life by David Maraniss

September 24, 1998: A Gory Future?

August 13, 1998: Whatever Happened to Whitewater?

Arkansas Mischief: The Birth of a National Scandal by Jim McDougal, by Curtis Wilkie

Friends in High Places: Our Journey from Little Rock to Washington, D.C. by Webb Hubbell

March 26, 1998: What? No Flowers?