Joseph Alsop

Memoir by a gay American journalist and syndicated newspaper columnist from the 1930s through the 1970s, posthumously-published. Washington-insider Joseph was the brother of newspaper columnist and political analyst Stewart Alsop. Family ties to the Roosevelts. Republican, Vietnam war supporter, art connoisseur.

"Economics and the Challenge of Global Warming is a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the role of economics in confronting global warming, the central environmental issue of the twenty-first century. It avoids a technical exposition in order to reach a wide audience and is up to date in its theoretical and empirical underpinnings. It is addressed to all who have some knowledge of economic concepts and a serious interest in how economics can (and cannot) help in crafting climate policy. The book is organized around three central questions. First, can benefit-cost analysis guide us in setting warming targets? Second, what strategies and policies are cost-effective? Third, and most difficult, can a global agreement be forged between rich and poor, North and South? While economic concepts are foremost in the analysis, they are placed within an accessible ethical and political matrix. The book serves as a primer for the post-Kyoto era"--Provided by publisher.

A profusely illustrated biographical memoir of the former U.S. president from his childhood to his death in 1945.

Published in 1965, seven years before Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, this is syndicated political columnist Joe Alsop's account of successfully losing weight on a carbohydrate restricted diet. He called his approach "the Martini drinker's diet," but according to his account, he drank far more alcohol than a couple of Martinis - prodigious quantities that would shock us today. But he still lost weight quickly and wrote that he suffered no hunger or other ill effects while on the diet.

Story of the Greek bronze age, and the curious drama of that story's gradual recovery from the silent earth--Preface.