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BOOK REVIEW: 'Wild Bill Donovan'
By Joseph C. Goulden - The Washington Times
William Donovan is an authentic American hero, the man who single-handedly founded our country’s first unified intelligence service. Unfortunately, much of what was written about him in the past was clumsy hagiography, based on information that Donovan and aides hand-fed to writers; one book was even vetted by his law firm. Published 9:56 a.m. February 11, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Virtual Caliphate’
By Joshua Sinai - The Washington Times
The widespread use of the Internet by extremist Islamist organizations and their sympathizers is well-known. For example, the appearance on such websites of announcements and speeches by terrorist leaders and ideologues and the avid rapture with which individuals around the world are radicalized in their forums and chat rooms into becoming religious extremists and terrorists are widely reported. Published 9:56 a.m. February 11, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Voice from Old New York’
By Philip Kopper - The Washington Times
If Louis Auchincloss’ forebears rolled over in their manicured graves when his novels came out, they can stop worrying now that his posthumous memoir has appeared. The most shocking outrage herein happened to the author himself, at boarding school. Published 9:56 a.m. February 11, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Public Enemies’
By Stephen Goode - The Washington Times
America rarely makes big-time celebrities of its writers, doting on their every utterance, deed and sexual peccadillo. At least not like the French do. In 1885, 2 million admirers joined the funeral procession of the great poet and novelist Victor Hugo. It was one of the biggest Parisian events of all time. Published 9:56 a.m. February 11, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: Messy end of shah’s regime
By David C. Acheson - The Washington Times
Abbas Milani has taken on a hard task: to explain how and why the rule of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-1980) in Iran came to an inglorious and messy end. Published 6:02 p.m. February 9, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: Peddling the Soviet ‘big lie’
By Joseph C. Goulden - The Washington Times
One of the Soviet Union’s crowning intelligence achievements was the creation of a vast propaganda network, the Communist International, or Comintern, charged with putting an innocent face on a brutal ideology and enlisting the support of political naifs worldwide who were too misty-eyed to see through the scam. Published 6:17 p.m. February 8, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: What he did and why
By Gary Anderson - The Washington Times
The first roughly 300 pages of “Known and Unknown” cover Donald Rumsfeld’s story up to his second term as secretary of defense, and general readers without a dog in the fight will find this part to be the book’s most enjoyable and entertaining. Published 7:07 p.m. February 7, 2011 - Comments
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BOOK REVIEW: 'A Voice from Old New York'
By Philip Kopper - The Washington Times
If Louis Auchincloss' forebears rolled over in their manicured graves when his novels came out, they can stop worrying now that his posthumous memoir has appeared. The most shocking outrage herein happened to the author himself, at boarding school. Published 9:56 a.m. February 11, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Wild Bill Donovan'
By Joseph C. Goulden - The Washington Times
William Donovan is an authentic American hero, the man who single-handedly founded our country's first unified intelligence service. Unfortunately, much of what was written about him in the past was clumsy hagiography, based on information that Donovan and aides hand-fed to writers; one book was even vetted by his law firm. Published 9:56 a.m. February 11, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Virtual Caliphate'
By Joshua Sinai - The Washington Times
The widespread use of the Internet by extremist Islamist organizations and their sympathizers is well-known. For example, the appearance on such websites of announcements and speeches by terrorist leaders and ideologues and the avid rapture with which individuals around the world are radicalized in their forums and chat rooms into becoming religious extremists and terrorists are widely reported. Published 9:56 a.m. February 11, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Public Enemies'
By Stephen Goode - The Washington Times
America rarely makes big-time celebrities of its writers, doting on their every utterance, deed and sexual peccadillo. At least not like the French do. In 1885, 2 million admirers joined the funeral procession of the great poet and novelist Victor Hugo. It was one of the biggest Parisian events of all time. Published 9:56 a.m. February 11, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: Messy end of shah's regime
By David C. Acheson - The Washington Times
Abbas Milani has taken on a hard task: to explain how and why the rule of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-1980) in Iran came to an inglorious and messy end. Published 6:02 p.m. February 9, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: Peddling the Soviet 'big lie'
By Joseph C. Goulden - The Washington Times
One of the Soviet Union's crowning intelligence achievements was the creation of a vast propaganda network, the Communist International, or Comintern, charged with putting an innocent face on a brutal ideology and enlisting the support of political naifs worldwide who were too misty-eyed to see through the scam. Published 6:17 p.m. February 8, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: What he did and why
By Gary Anderson - The Washington Times
The first roughly 300 pages of "Known and Unknown" cover Donald Rumsfeld's story up to his second term as secretary of defense, and general readers without a dog in the fight will find this part to be the book's most enjoyable and entertaining. Published 7:07 p.m. February 7, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Memory Chalet'
By Martin Rubin - The Washington Times
When the Anglo-American historian Tony Judt died in August at the age of 62, he had been living for the previous two years in the ever more immobilizing stranglehold of ALS, often known as Lou Gehrig's disease. With the unflinching fortitude that characterizes his fight against this terrible affliction, he describes in painful detail, but without any trace of self-pity, the physical state to which it rapidly reduced him. Published 11:41 a.m. February 4, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Though Not Dead'
By Muriel Dobbin - The Washington Times
''Though Not Dead" begins with the terror of the Black Death when it hit Alaska in 1918 and then explodes through the decades in that unique wilderness with its gold nuggets, its wildcatters and the dedicated mavericks who are true Alaskans. Published 11:41 a.m. February 4, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Great House'
By John Greenya - The Washington Times
The central character in this compelling novel is a piece of furniture. Well, maybe not exactly, but it does figure in almost every one of the eight separate but interwoven tales that make up the book. Published 11:41 a.m. February 4, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Project Azorian'
By Joseph C. Goulden - The Washington Times
Project Azorian, the 1974 recovery of a sunken Soviet submarine resting 16,300 feet below the surface of the North Pacific, was a singular success for the CIA and the U.S. Navy - despite last-minute media leaks that proved to be of no consequence. Published 11:41 a.m. February 4, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Luka and the Fire of Life'
By Bruce Allen - The Washington Times
Winter blahs? Ignore them and cast your lot with adventurous shahs, seductive houris and the exhilarating comforts of traveling by magic carpet. Stories are our tickets to escapes into more appealing worlds. And, I'm happy to report from the winter hinterlands, they seem to be making a comeback. Published 11:41 a.m. February 4, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: Fixing tooth-fairy economics
By John R. Coyne Jr. - The Washington Times
Americans want to believe we finally are emerging from an extended period of economic malaise, that we can see the light of the end of the tunnel. But, writes Thomas Woods, holder of a doctorate from Columbia University and senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, that's the light from an oncoming train. Published 7:01 p.m. February 4, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: New cold war in Middle East
By Seth Mandel - The Washington Times
How can a society remain perpetually ready for war yet uncorrupted by the readiness? It is a question posed by Jonathan Spyer in "The Transforming Fire: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict," and it's a thoughtful question that highlights the book's composition as equal parts philosophical memoir and strategic analysis. Published 6:02 p.m. February 2, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: Maintaining balances of power
By Vice Admiral Robert F. Dunn - The Washington Times
The United States is and in the future will be an empire, albeit unintended, George Friedman writes. Whereas presidents past may have had to play only a single integrated global hand, presidents in the next decade will have to play multiple hands, as there will be no single overriding threat. Published 7:34 p.m. February 1, 2011 - Comments
