THE SCRAPBOOK is pleased to announce the publication of A Passion for Truth: The Selected Writings of Eric Breindel (Harper-Collins). Edited by John Podhoretz, a contributing editor to THE WEEKLY STANDARD, the collection is a memorial to Breindel's work on the first anniversary of his untimely death at age 42. As editor of the editorial pages of the New York Post and a weekly columnist for that paper, Breindel wrote passionately for a decade about the issues and events of our times. The commemorative volume, with a foreword by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, collects his best columns.
Also, an annual prize, the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, has been established by the Eric Breindel Memorial Foundation. The $ 10,000 prize will be awarded to the newspaper columnist or editorial writer whose work best reflects the spirit that animated Breindel's own writings: love of country and its democratic institutions, as well as the act of bearing witness to the evils of totalitarianism. A confidential panel appointed by the foundation will judge the entries. Those who wish to be considered should submit no more than five editorials or columns, with a $ 25 entry fee, to the Eric Breindel Memorial Foundation, 1211 Avenue of the Americas, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10036.