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  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Frank Batten'

    By CAROL HERMAN - The Washington Times

    Be honest. At some point during or after the recent earthquake, storms and floods (depending on power availability), didn’t you consult the Weather Channel for updates? Published September 14, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Refighting the Pacific War’

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

    This slim book takes an interesting approach to the retelling of the Pacific War, at least as it involved the Navy and Marines. In this sense, the title is somewhat misleading, since the Army and Army Air Forces are hardly mentioned. Published September 13, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Left Turn: How Media Bias Distorts the American Mind’

    By L. Brent Bozell III - Special to The Washington Times

    I lost my television debate virginity to Tom Braden, the old curmudgeon liberal counterpart to Pat Buchanan, on the original CNN “Crossfire” series. His first question was a haymaker: “Who the hell do you think you are passing judgment on journalists?” he snarled. Published September 12, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Wanted Dead of Alive: Manhunts From Geronimo to Bin Laden’

    By Justin Pollin - Special to The Washington Times

    In strategic manhunts, the United States tends to get its man. These are operations in which killing or capturing an individual is a key (and often the) objective of a military deployment. Four months ago, Navy SEALs closed perhaps the most remarkable chapter in the history of U.S. strategic manhunts by storming a compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan, and killing Osama bin Laden. Yet success did not provide closure; it generated questions and controversy. Published September 9, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Alfred Kazin’s Journals’

    By Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington Times

    The literary critic Alfred Kazin (1915-1998) has always struck me as a very problematic figure, a worshipper at the altar of literature who was nevertheless rather rough and coarse in his sensibility, an intellectual bruiser as much as a fervent advocate. Published September 9, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Maine’

    By Claire Hopley - Special to The Washington Times

    Like many fictional characters, the Boston-Irish Kellehers of J. Courtney Sullivan’s “Maine,” are not perfect. For the most part they are not lovable either, and that is not simply because they are flawed; it’s because most of them are not charming. That’s quite rare in a novel. Published September 9, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Death in Summer’

    By Muriel Dobbin - Special to The Washington Times

    It is rare that murder most foul is overwhelmed by literary grace, yet that is true of Benjamin Black’s latest mystery. Even violent death can assume a lyrical tone when it is the work of an author for whom mysteries seem to have become a hobby since he claimed a major literary award under another name. Published September 9, 2011 Comments

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  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Gun Fight'

    By Frank Miniter - Special to The Washington Times

    Anti-gun-rights books are common enough. But they never quite resonate with the public because they avoid the well-documented history. To rewrite history in this way, they fail to acknowledge that "militia," as defined in early dictionaries, included all able-bodied males; they also ignore the fact that the phrase "the people," as it is used in other parts of the U.S. Constitution, is always used in the context of "we the people." Published September 5, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Irresistible North'

    By Claire Hopley - Special to The Washington Times

    It is a truth almost universally acknowledged that other Europeans reached the American mainland before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492. The presence of a viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland confirms the Norse sagas that describe early-11th-century vikings living there before being driven off by the people they called Skraelings. Published September 2, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Stories My Father Told Me'

    By Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington Times

    For three decades after Leonard Lyons started writing his syndicated column for the New York Post in 1934, many people savored what he had to tell them about the great and famous in the Lyons Den. Published September 2, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Farishta'

    By Gary Anderson - Special to The Washington Times

    There was a time, particularly during the Cold War, when the lines between the responsibilities of the State Department and the Defense Department were clearly drawn. Defense did war-fighting when diplomacy broke down, and when the fighting stopped, the diplomats took over. Published September 2, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Remember Ben Clayton'

    By Stephen Goode - Special to The Washington Times

    Lamar Clayton, a taciturn, old-fashioned West Texas rancher, is the central character in Stephen Harrigan's well-crafted novel "Remember Ben Clayton." As a young man, Lamar rode on a number of the great cattle drives from Texas to the stockyards in Kansas and lived the cowboy's life in full. Published September 2, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Nica's Dream'

    By John Greenya - Special to The Washington Times

    Late at night in Manhattan many years ago, while I was stopped at a light, a Rolls-Royce pulled up in the right lane. My friend, an actor and jazz drummer who normally was the personification of cool, almost lost his. "Oh my! It's the Baroness and Monk!" he exclaimed. Published August 31, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Founding Gardeners'

    By Marion Elizabeth Rodgers - Special to The Washington Times

    Andrea Wulf, a British horticultural historian, is one of those rare and talented writers with a distinctive narrative voice. Just as in "The Brother Gardeners" (2009), she infuses her text with such liveliness, grace and original scholarship that the reader happily follows the author at a brisk trot wherever she may lead. Published August 30, 2011 Comments

  • DECKER: The world according to Belloc

    By Brett M. Decker - The Washington Times

    ''There never was a time ... when the mass of men had less to do with the way in which they were governed." This protest didn't come from some Tea Partyer in the Midwest frustrated at our out-of-control government. It was penned nearly a century ago by Hilaire Belloc, an Edwardian poet, historian, war chronicler, artilleryman, wayfarer, political essayist and sometimes member of the British Parliament. Belloc was a prototype for today's know-it-all celebrity pundits, with the exception that he really did know quite a lot regarding just about everything. Published August 29, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Hollywood Left and Right'

    By Wes Vernon - Special to The Washington Times

    Most Americans who pay attention to politics believe Hollywood's political influence in American life and culture is heavily weighted on the left. Steven J. Ross, a historian who teaches at the University of Southern California, begs to differ. Published August 29, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'A Bitter Truth'

    By Muriel Dobbin - Special to The Washington Times

    Perhaps the saddest truth of war is that it corrodes all it touches. In "Bitter Truth," Charles Todd's theme is war, and as is the case in his earlier novels, plot is sublimated to historic events, in this case those of World War I. Published August 26, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Mightier than the Sword'

    By John M. Taylor - Special to The Washington Times

    Is "Uncle Tom's Cabin" the most influential work of fiction ever written in America? In all likelihood, yes. Not only was it an overwhelming best-seller - more than 300,000 copies were sold in the year after its publication - but it addressed the most divisive issue in the country: slavery. Published August 26, 2011 Comments

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