As the threat of an H1N1 swine flu outbreak looms, Jerry Oppenheimer looks back at how New York handled a deadly smallpox outbreak—and prevented a catastrophe.
Veteran journalist Jerry Oppenheimer is the author of a biography of Ethel Kennedy, The Other Mrs. Kennedy: An American Drama of Power, Privilege, and Politics. His most recent book, Madoff with the Money, was excerpted in The Daily Beast.
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The last of the Kennedys who so dominated the politics of the 1960s, Bobby’s widow, still tools around the Cape in a flashy convertible and helps keep the clan together.
Jerry Oppenheimer’s new biography of Bernie Madoff traces the roots of his deceit and his odd compulsions back to a Queens childhood steeped in hustles and scams.