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Breaking up is hard to do

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19950924
Author:David Warsh, Globe Staff

I have been reading a wonderful biography of Karl Marx with one eye and, with the other, following the newspaper stories about AT&T's decision to whack itself into three pieces. The point at which the two spectacles intersect, at least in my mind, is in a theater in Moscow in March 1982.

The author of the Marx biography is Frank E. Manuel, an exemplary Brandeis University historian who has gone on producing original scholarship far into his retirement. Not everybody will wish to spend evenings in the mid-1990s thinking about what went wrong with Marx's widely shared dream of a better world -- ...

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