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  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Willie & Joe: Back Home'

    By Michael Taube - The Washington Times

    If you grew up during World War II, the mere mention of the comic strip “Willie & Joe” should immediately bring back vivid memories. These two embodiments of front-line soldiers found themselves in just about every conceivable situation on the European battlefield, from foxholes to watering holes. Published August 17, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: COUNTERSTRIKE

    By Joshua Sinai - The Washington Times

    In the decade since the devastating Sept. 11 attacks, al Qaeda and its regional affiliates have been innovating their radicalization and recruitment practices - especially via the Internet - with the goal of finding impressionable Westerners. Published August 16, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Gift of Rest’

    By Michael Medved - The Washington Times

    If you’ve ever felt the yen to celebrate a Jewish holy day in a festive, traditional style, this marvelous book will enable you to approximate the experience - without calories from rich, filling food or risks of leaving wine stains on the white tablecloth. Published August 15, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Who Shot the Water Buffalo?’

    By Gary Anderson - The Washington Times

    They say that being a Marine means you can grow old but you never have to grow up. That is only partially true. Ken Babbs’ “Who Shot the Water Buffalo?” is a Marine Corps coming-of-age story. A reader probably has to have been alive in 1962 to fully appreciate this thinly disguised memoir of the author’s time as a Marine Corps helicopter pilot in the second year of the Kennedy administration. Published August 12, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Story of Charlotte’s Web’

    By Priscilla S. Taylor - Special to The Washington Times

    Readers looking here for insights into how E.B. “Andy” White created his classic children’s book “Charlotte’s Web” will first have to plow through (or skim) 11 chapters of Michael Sims’ ruminations on White’s youth, farm life in Maine, city life in New York and the like - but the latter part of the book is worth the wait. Published August 12, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Bossypants’

    By Albin Sadar - Special to The Washington Times

    ”Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.” This gritty utterance, attributed variously to actors Peter O’Toole, Jack Lemmon and Edmund Gwenn, also could be applied to Tina Fey. In her newly released autobiography, “Bossypants,” Miss Fey certainly puts the “comedy is hard” half of this adage through its paces. Published August 12, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz’

    By Sol Schindler - Special to The Washington Times

    This is an important and profound book. It begins almost as an adventure story rather than the moral examination it really is. The author, Denis Avey, writes that he enlisted in the British army not for love of king and country but for the sheer hell of it. Published August 12, 2011 Comments

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  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Lady Blue Eyes'

    By John R. Coyne Jr. - The Washington Times

    Early autumn, 1972. We were on a winning swing through the West, with Vice President Spiro Agnew as the administration's chief campaigner and the McGovernites on the run, hammered by speeches on Sen. McGovern's consistent inconsistencies. Published August 8, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Good Stuff'

    By Martin Rubin - The Washington Times

    The eponymous good stuff was the all-purpose term Jennifer Grant's father, Cary, used to describe all the nice things that make up what the French like to call "douceur de vie" - sweetness of life - and certainly her memory of life with this extraordinarily devoted father and unusually civil and civilized man is a lovely distillation of her halcyon childhood and youth. Published August 5, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'The Complaints'

    By Muriel Dobbin - The Washington Times

    There is an old saying about setting a thief to catch a thief, but in the case of "The Complaints," Ian Rankin has done something more risky by having straight cops chase corrupt cops. Published August 5, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'The Dickson Baseball Dictionary'

    By Claude R. Marx - The Washington Times

    As baseball has evolved — for the better and worse — its language has changed as well. The words and phrases of the national pastime provide an important prism through which to understand an important part of our social and cultural history. Unfortunately, many books about the language are dull and not particularly enjoyable to read. That is not the case with The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition). Published August 5, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'The Faculty Lounges'

    By Ray Hartwell - The Washington Times

    Naomi Schaefer Riley's "The Faculty Lounges" has generated a healthy amount of buzz in and out of academe. The focus of this compact and cogently written book is on the institution of tenure. Published August 5, 2011 Comments

  • 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 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 August 2, 2011 Comments

  • 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 August 1, 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 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 July 29, 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 July 29, 2011 Comments

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