Andrew Kevorkian
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BSR Contributor Since July 15, 2007
Andrew Kevorkian is a public-relations consultant and a free-lance writer who lives in West Philadelphia after living and working for many years in London.
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Ben Urwand’s ‘The Collaboration’
Hitler and Hollywood: Six degrees of separation
I’ve just finished reading a remarkable book— and all sorts of links started coming into my mind. It's the story of Hollywood’s obscene collaboration with Germany in the 1930s— one in a chain of collaborations from the Armenian genocide to the Holocaust.
Articles
5 minute read
Memories of Philadelphia's countess
Our lady in London: The countess who saved Franklin's last house
Lady Mary Bessborough was a native Philadelphian, a British countess and above all a woman with a sense of history in the best meaning of that term.
Essays
2 minute read
New light on Beethoven's Fifth
The pedestrian truth about Beethoven's Fifth
Where do musicians find their inspiration? A letter from Beethoven to his musicologist second cousin Moishe Gunzburg, recently discovered in a closet in my West Philadelphia apartment, sheds new and startling light on the origins of the great composer's most famous symphony.
Articles
3 minute read
Fighting Future Wars
President Bush is hiring private firms in Iraq for "security" purposes. Why not take this idea to its logical extreme by privatizing war altogether?
Essays
3 minute read
Pavarotti vs. Carreras
My brilliant brother Jack thought Pavarotti was the best tenor around. It was one of the few points on which I questioned his judgment and held my ground.
Articles
4 minute read
What's in an art donor's mind?
When the spinster donated her collection to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, her intentions seemed crystal-clear. Then the Met's lawyers got into the act. A distant mirror for the debate over Albert Barnes's intentions?
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3 minute read