In this memoir, University of Michigan graduate John L. Tishman recounts the experiences and rationale that led him to create the entirely new profession now recognized and practiced as Construction Management. It evolved from his work as the construction leader of the “owner/builder” firm Tishman Realty & Construction, and his personal role as hands-on Construction […]
October 25, 2012: Illustrated lecture on my forthcoming book, The Science of the Founding Fathers, at the New York Public Library
Thursday, October 25, 2012, 1:15 – 3 p.m; Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, South Court Auditorium (Map and directions) Fully accessible to wheelchairs; First come, first served. Illustrated lecture on my forthcoming book, THE SCIENCE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS, October 25, Main Building of the New York Public Library, 42nd Street. More information here
The “Arab Spring” of 2011 and the “Chinese Spring” of 1911
The op-ed page of The Lakeville Journal has won the top prize for op-ed pages of 2011 at the New England Newspaper and Press Association (NENPA); I am pleased that one of my columns was at the top of the award-winning page. That one was about the Arab Spring of 2011, and a cautionary antecedent, […]
A Dozen Ways To Eliminate The Middle Class
Here’s an article that was first in The Huffington Post and then reposted on many other sites. Cleaning out my files at year end of 2010, I came across notes that I wrote in early 2002 on a dozen ways to eliminate America’s middle class through the actions of government and private industry. I must […]
Whoever Fights Monsters
“Whoever Fights Monsters is now more than 20 years old … but it’s not dated …. A strong, fast-moving read, detailed but not pedantic, and the voice is knowledgeable without bragginess or condescension. An A-plus plane read.” Sarah D. Bunting, editor-in-chief and publisher of The Blotter, a crime books blog, March 2013. Whoever Fights Monsters: […]