Fighting the Good Fight

This is the story of New York's feisty Conservative Party, a story that is really the saga of America's tumultuous political maturity from the time of Rockefeller up to Rudy Guiliani.

Marlin is chairman and COO of The Philadelphia Trust Company, and has served two terms as executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, president of the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Raiway, and President of the Newark Legal Center. In 1993, he ran for mayor of New York on the Conservative Party ticket, and in 1994 served on governor-elect Pataki's transition team. He is the author or editor of The Politician's Guide to Assisted Suicide, Cloning, and Other Current Controversies, The Bond Buyer's Guide to Municipal Bonds, The Quotable G.K. Chesterton, More Quotable Chesterton, The Quotable Fulton Sheen, The Quotable Paul Johnson, The Quotable Ronald Knox, and as general editor of the 46-volume Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. He has appeared in such periodicals as National Review and The American Enterprise, and in most of New York City's newspapers.