Navigator, July/August, 2004
Editor's Desk
Feature Article:
The Case for Frank Quattrone by Roger Donway
Frank Quattrone, the star investment banker of the dot-com era, was convicted in May 2004 on two counts of obstructing justice and one count of witness tampering. He is scheduled to be sentenced on September 8, and faces up to twenty years in prison. What was the exact nature of Quattrone’s alleged crime? And how strong was the evidence against him?
Ideas and Issues:
In Defense of Cowboy Capitalism by Roger Donway
Pro-capitalists need to offer a defense of big-business executives that is not undercut by libertinism, postmodern moral skepticism, religious morality, or utopian illusions.
Review:
America: A New "House Divided" by Frank Bubb
Hard America consists of “the parts of American life subject to competition and accountability”; “Soft America” consists of “the parts of our country where there is little competition and accountability.” That is the intriguing disjunction that informs Michael Barone’s new book, Hard America, Soft America, employs to analyze the history of the United States during the last century.
Cultural Calendar:
Rockefeller and the Muckrakers by Roger Donway
Throughout his long life of ninety-eight years, John D. Rockefeller Sr. heard the same lies told about him year after year, decade after decade, and generation after generation.