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rblumenthal wrote a new post, Hello world!, on the site Journalism and Public...

Welcome to Blogs@Baruch! Welcome students of PAF9199! I’ve set up this blog to give you a place to post your comments on various subjects — and to comment on each others’s comments. The first exercise...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, I've seen the film, on the site Journalism and...

OK students, I’ve just seen “The Central Park Five” (at Lincoln Cinemas, 62d and Bway) and am more convinced than ever that you must see this film! It’s what we’ve been talking about on the subject of...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, Another wrongful conviction case?, on the site...

Students, it seems like I’m the only one blogging here. Where are the rest of you? Here’s another amazing story about a likely wrongful […]

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, Inventing a Science of Government , on the site...

For untold ages of human history, government was the haphazard expression of a strongman’s greed and whims. The Greeks invented democracy, Magna Carta curtailed a monarch’s absolute power, and the...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, The Ties That....Uh...Bind , on the site "An...

They are the lowliest of office hardware, scattered through the IPA collection. But what stories they could tell of their interactions with famous fingers! Didn’t Albert Einstein, Franklin Delano...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, "The Bureau of Municipal Besmirch", on the site...

You might think that the New York Bureau of Municipal Research that from 1906 struggled to bring a reform-minded rationality to inept and crooked city halls and state houses around the country would be...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, And Now...Basketball!, on the site "An...

Luther Gulick was known for many things: heading the nation’s first Training School to groom professional public servants, directing the New York Bureau of Municipal Research in its pioneering struggle...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, The "Berlin(g) corridor", on the site "An...

When it came to the Russians and the looming Cold War, Luther Gulick could be amazingly insightful — a virtual clairvoyant  (if not always a perfect typist). Less than three months after the Nazi...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, Buddy, Can You Spare a Typewriter?, on the site...

In this time of plenty, it’s hard to remember that during World War II, rationing restricted Americans’s access to a long list of consumer goods, including automobiles, shoes, meat and butter and...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, The United Nations Before the United Nations,...

Before there was a United Nations, there were “United Nations” joining us in the “Fight for Freedom” in 1942 — 30 of them! Two — Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia — no longer exist. And others like “Soviet...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, The Cost of War, on the site "An Adventure in...

We know the bitter costs of war — lost lives,  broken bodies, physical devastation and untold human anguish. But what — actually — does a war cost, in dollars? During World War II, it was one of Luther...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, WWII "Housing Mess" , on the site "An Adventure...

As if Luther Gulick and the War Production Board didn’t have enough to worry about in the dismal first year of fighting after  Pearl Harbor, a well-meaning businessman, Joseph Anthony Marcus, came...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, How to Manage a World War , on the site "An...

By the time Luther Gulick got to the War Production Board in 1942, he already had a quarter-century’s worth of administrative experience, starting with the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. Here...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, And After the Coming War…What?, on the site "An...

Even before Pearl Harbor, Luther Gulick in FDR’s Washington was planning for the peace he knew would have to come someday — after the war that he was sure would embroil the US. With the coming of the...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, And After the Coming War…What?, on the site "An...

Even before Pearl Harbor, Luther Gulick in FDR’s Washington was planning for the peace he knew would have to come someday — after the war that he was sure would embroil the US. With the coming of the...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, The Battle of Syria , on the site "An Adventure...

Does this sound familiar? Seventy-three years ago, in June 1941, British and Free French forces fought the Battle of Syria and Lebanon, blocking the Nazis from a key foothold in the Middle East. (The...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, Inventing a Science of Government , on the site...

For untold ages of human history, government was the haphazard expression of a strongman’s greed and whims. The Greeks invented democracy, Magna Carta curtailed a monarch’s absolute power, and the...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, Adventure in Democracy/Rhymes with Poesy... ,...

Luther Gulick was not only a  peerless organizer, adviser to Presidents, war and peace strategist, champion of a new science of government administration – and inveterate doodler.  He was also an...

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rblumenthal wrote a new post, No Nattering Nabob of Negativism , on the site...

Luther Gulick, a Republican who believed deeply in FDR and the New Deal, came to have little sympathy for Richard Nixon and the nonetity he picked for his vice president in 1968, Spiro T. Agnew. Once...

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