Books by Richard Pollak and Complete Book Reviews
Richard Pollak, Author . Simon and Schuster $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0073-8
Container ships are the pack mules of the global marketplace. Their role is crucial, if unglamorous, and Pollak's exceptional piece of literary journalism should make readers appreciate the mostly monotonous, sometimes dangerous work of these...
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Richard Pollak, Author Simon & Schuster $28 (608p) ISBN 978-0-684-80938-0
In this shocking, demythologizing biography, Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990), world-famous Vienna-born psychoanalyst, bestselling author and authority on troubled children, is portrayed as a dogmatic, arrogant, exploitative tyrant who manipulated and...
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Richard Pollak, Author, Richard Pollack, Author Dutton Books $16.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-453-00517-3
Retrograde amnesia, the blank zone in which bloody events occur, is a venerable device in mysteries. The amnesiac here is the hero, Daniel Cooper, investigative reporter for a muckraking New York City weekly improbably named Tabula Rasa. His...
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