Okrent has expertly restored it in Last Call, and in the process rehabilitated our pop-culture-atrophied cultural memory.
Factoring in both, Okrent sees 1960 and the few years preceding it as baseball's true sweet spot.
Christine Okrent, a political commentator at television France 3, said Chirac was also unwavering on the issue of anti-Semitism.
"He's always been extremely forthcoming on the extreme right and anti-Semitism, " Okrent said.
Baseball historian and one-time New York Times Public Editor Daniel Okrent agrees it makes sense to measure different eras differently.
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Last Call is populated with these kinds of characters, and Okrent draws implicit connections between them, their attitudes, and actions to the figures and issues on the national stage today.
As Okrent characterizes him in the book, Wheeler was the Karl Rove of his day, but who now could cite his influence or even pick him out of a lineup?
Okrent said the danger is in having someone from a news organization that prizes studied neutrality appear frequently in another outlet that rewards contention and sharply defined opinion like Fox News.
"I agree with another past public editor, Dan Okrent, and my predecessor as executive editor, Bill Keller, that in covering some social and cultural issues, the Times sometimes reflects its urban and cosmopolitan base, " she continued.
"We value not the absence of opinion but the illusion of the absence of opinion, " said Daniel Okrent, the former public editor of The New York Times, who called it a conundrum for the modern press.
Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, sees two parallels between today's legal and cultural marijuana environment and the late 1920s and early '30s when the move to end America's experiment with prohibition of alcohol gained steam.
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