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  • BOOK REVIEW: 'The House in France'

    By Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington Times

    If you have not yet had your fill of books recounting the joys of having a house in Provence, you will love this one. For it’s all there again, beautifully and evocatively described: the markets overflowing with fragrant herbs and purple figs bursting their skins, the beaches with snack bars full of delicious treats, the magical light of the Midi, which attracted so many artists and delighted all manner of visitors. Published September 16, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin’

    By William Murchison - Special to The Washington Times

    What D.G. Hart tells us in this invigorating book is that Jerry Falwell is dead. I mean to tell you, brethren, he’s really, really dead - not least in terms of the influence he once exerted, with high and honorable intention, on the political process. Published September 16, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Return of Captain John Emmett’

    By Muriel Dobbin - Special to The Washington Times

    The mood of London in 1920 reflected not only relief at the end of a devastating war but a psychological hangover that afflicted many who fought in it. In “The Return of Captain John Emmett,” Elizabeth Speller has captured the darkness of the era in a poignant prologue describing villagers gathered in darkness to see the passing of a train bearing a flag-draped coffin. Published September 16, 2011 Comments

  • 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

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  • 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

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Behind the Desert Storm'

    By Sol Sanders - Special to The Washington Times

    One cannot read this book without recalling that aphorism of Otto von Bismarck: "There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America." Published September 7, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'After America'

    By Ray Hartwell - Special to The Washington Times

    Bemoaning decline in a different time, George Orwell once said we "have sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." Happily for readers interested in the state of the nation, Mark Steyn has reported for duty. Published September 6, 2011 Comments

  • 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: '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: '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: '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: '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: '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

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