Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer Mystery_Gift_Guide the scent of hyacinths in

the scent of hyacinths in the air

and the battle to electrify America

“We had become the land of flickering lights

As young children

Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer Mystery_Gift_Guide the scent of hyacinths inLeonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer. Brilliant, brash, yet soulful, they were 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American. They upended the restrained culture of their forebears and changed American life. They worked in different fields, and, apart from clinking glasses at parties now and then, they hardly knew one another. But they shared a historical moment and a common temperament. For all four, their Jewish heritage was