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H.P. Albarelli Jr. is a writer and investigative journalist who lives in Vermont, Florida, and London (U.K.). He has written numerous feature articles about the 9-11 anthrax attacks; biological warfare; the American intelligence community; the death of Frank Olson; the Cuban revolution; and social and political affairs.Some of his work can be found at the World Net Daily, Cubanet, Counterpunch, and Crime Magazine websites, as well as in numerous magazines and newspapers. Albarelli's articles have been acknowledged and cited in many publications and books, including American History magazine,THE BIOLOGY OF DOOM by Ed Regis; Alston Chase's classic, HARVARD AND THE UNABOMBER;and THE EIGHTY GREATEST CONSPIRACIES OF ALL TIME by Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen. An accomplished scriptwriter and playwright, Albarelli's LIFE GOES ON, written with his brother, Dean Albarelli, was published by WITNESS, a literary journal and perfomed in several theaters; in 1995 Albarelli produced and directed Academy Award winner's Steve Tesich's play ON THE OPEN ROAD. Albarelli is a graduate of Antioch law School, and has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, South Africa, the Middle East, and the Sudan. His first novel, THE HEAP, was published several years ago,and his
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Richard’s Substack
[Two decades later, I reprint this review for its unfamiliar alternative truths about certain common experiences.]
Several autobiographies by Ivy-educated intellectuals of my generation I’ve read with a certain empathy, including David Horowitz’s Radical Son (1997) and Victor Neiderhoffer’s The Education of a Speculator (1996), and once thought about doing a collective review of them. Alston Chase’s Harvard and the Unabomber (2003) is not an autobiography per se but a biography written by someone whose life was similar in several respects to his subject’s.
Though Chase is several years older than Ted Kaczynski, since better remembered as the Unabomber, both graduated from Harvard, where their public school backgrounds made them feel socially alienated; both obtained doctorates elsewhere and became university professors before “throwing up,” as the British would say, their tenure-track academic jobs to live sparely (and separately) in the state of Montana. Though chronologically older than Ted Kaczynski, I went as a public-school boy to a nearby Ivy League college, where I too felt socially awkward, graduating, as Kaczynski did, in 1962 (when I returned to New York City, which I’ve scarcely left since). So the cultural world portrayed in this bo