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  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Palmerston: A Biography'

    By David C. Acheson - The Washington Times

    David Brown, senior lecturer in history at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, has produced a detailed account of the public and personal lives of Henry John Temple, third Viscount Palmerston, (1784-1865), surely one of the five most significant statesmen in 19th-century British history. Published 6:42 p.m. August 3, 2011 - Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Not Afraid of Life’

    By Doug Wead - The Washington Times

    Bristol Palin’s new book, “Not Afraid of Life,” opens at 100 mph and never slows down. Everything the title promises is is an intimathere. This te, insider, unabashed account of life in the Palin family. This is a teenager’s almost innocent portrayal of her sudden rise to fame and the people she encounters along the way. Published 6:51 p.m. August 2, 2011 - Comments

  • "Conservatism," by Kieron O'Hara.

    BOOK REVIEW: ‘Conservatism’

    By James Delingpole - The Washington Times

    Political leaders do love books that tell them what a very good job they’re doing. George W Bush, for example, was often seen clutching a copy of Andrew Roberts’ excellent “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900” because it reassured him that his war on terrorism belonged to a fine historical tradition and was right and noble and good. Published 7:49 p.m. August 1, 2011 - Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Almost Christian’

    By Rebecca Hagelin - The Washington Times

    It’s the only academic book I’ve read that nearly brought me to tears. “Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church” is at once a complex and emotional story. Its contents are often hard to grasp, but when you do get them, they grab you hard — as if you’re in the grip of a mighty wrestler’s headlock. Published 7:01 p.m. July 29, 2011 - Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Dick Francis’s Gamble’

    By Larry Thornberry - The Washington Times

    On the evidence of his first solo effort, it appears that Felix Francis can write on his own. A family tradition can continue. Mr. Francis is the youngest son of the late, mega-popular thriller writer Dick Francis, whose 40-plus novels, starting with 1962’s “Dead Cert,” have sold tens of millions of copies and won the elder Francis every prize in the mystery biz on both sides of the Atlantic. Published 6:10 a.m. July 29, 2011 - Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘George Szell’

    By Priscilla S. Taylor - The Washington Times

    As a pianist and composer prodigy, young George Szell was said to be the new Mozart. As an adult, when he concentrated on conducting, he was likened to Toscanini. In any pantheon of great musicians of the mid-20th century, George Szell (1897-1970) figures prominently. Published 6:11 a.m. July 29, 2011 - Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Caleb’s Crossing’

    By Stephanie Deutsch - The Washington Times

    Australian-born Geraldine Brooks began her career as a journalist and has found considerable success in this country as a writer of fiction. Her first novel, “Year of Wonders,” was set in a small town in 17th-century England during an outbreak of the plague. Published 6:11 a.m. July 29, 2011 - Comments

Recent Articles

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'The Al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA'

    By Joshua Sinai - The Washington Times

    Overcoming the "insider" threat is one of the most bedeviling challenges in counterterrorism. This is especially the case when, in the attempt to penetrate an adversary terrorist organization, a decision has to be made about who will be deployed as a double agent. Published 6:49 p.m. July 25, 2011 - Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Stories I Only Tell My Friends'

    By Carol Herman - The Washington Times

    A few weeks back, a Washington summer internship made the news. The 17-year-old son of Rob Lowe, "Brat Pack" darling and "The West Wing" star, was to begin working in the office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican. Readers of Mr. Lowe's remarkable autobiography, "Stories I Only Tell My Friends," released this year, already had been introduced to the actor's son through the stories and pictures Mr. Lowe shares in the book. Published 6:12 a.m. July 22, 2011 - Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: Fannie and Freddie's bubble

    By Doug Bandow - The Washington Times

    The government did it - cause the economic meltdown. Of course, there were other factors. But in "Reckless Endangerment," reporter Gretchen Morgenson and analyst Joshua Rosner point the biggest finger at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Published 7:06 p.m. July 22, 2011 - Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'The Storm of War'

    By John R. Coyne Jr. - The Washington Times

    Andrew Roberts, author of "Masters and Commanders" and "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900," has produced what Gen. George Patton might call "a helluva book" - the first totally readable one-volume history of World War II, a literary and historical blitzkrieg, propelled by strong, positive prose, written with concision yet a wealth of detail, and supplied with an arsenal of sources. Published 6:12 a.m. July 22, 2011 - Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Very Bad Men'

    By Muriel Dobbin - The Washington Times

    This is a mystery within a mystery within a mystery, and it is a tribute to the author's skill that it retains attention as it unwinds and unwinds. At the inner limits of its darkness is Anthony Lark, who writes in an elegant black notebook with a Waterman pen and watches anxiously as flowing letters dissolve while his headache gets worse. Published 6:12 a.m. July 22, 2011 - Comments

  • The National Debt Papers: China's debt collection letters to U.S. (PARODY)

    By Patrick Hruby - The Washington Times

    Dear U.S. Treasury Department, This letter is a friendly reminder that the monthly interest payment on your account in the amount of $2,217,000,000.37 is now past due ... Published 4:51 p.m. July 20, 2011 - Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: When Saigon was evacuated

    By George J. Veith - The Washington Times

    American embassies around the globe are pro- tected night and day by an elite unit called the Marine Security Guard. In "Last Men Out," journalists Bob Drury and Tom Clavin provide an inside look at the Marines who guarded the U.S. Embassy in Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War. Published 7:36 p.m. July 20, 2011 - Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: Unworkable in Afghanistan

    By Iason Athanasiadis - The Washington Times

    "Sometimes life in Afghanistan seemed to be lived without Afghans," is how former British ambassador Sherard Cowper-Coles describes the daily reality unspooling behind his Kabul embassy's tall suicide barriers and barbed wire. Published 8:03 p.m. July 19, 2011 - Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: Recalling progress of war in France

    By Vice Adm. Robert F. Dunn - The Washington Times

    One could probably build a substantial library of books on Normandy. Some were written even while the smoke still lingered among the hedgerows. Some were written amid the jubilation of liberated Parisiennes. Some were memoirs of politicians, generals and GIs. Some were composed by British; some by Americans; some by Germans; some by diverse others. Published 6:37 p.m. July 18, 2011 - Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'In the Garden of Beasts'

    By Sandra McElwaine - The Washington Times

    It is easy to see why Erik Larson's chilling book "In the Garden of Beasts" has zoomed to the top of best-seller lists. It is a compelling read. The ominous title refers to Berlin's Central Park, the Tiergarten, which means "animal garden," and hearkens back to the days when it served as a royal hunting preserve. Published 5:49 a.m. July 15, 2011 - Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW:'Reawakening Virtues'

    By Rebecca Hagelin - The Washington Times

    It was 8:21 on a Friday night, and there I was, reading yet another book on how to reclaim the morals and principles that America used to hold dear. What a way to start a weekend. Rather prudish, don't you think? Published 5:49 a.m. July 15, 2011 - Comments

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