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BOOK REVIEW: 'Columbus: The Four Voyages'
By Philip Kopper - Special to The Washington Times
To recall Samuel Eliot Morison’s generation-old writings about Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration is to summon up memories of arid and aristocratic history written with his signature hauteur. Laurence Bergreen’s new book, refreshingly, is fluid in its style and comprehensive in its research. Published November 11, 2011 Comments
KUHNER: Obama’s betrayal to China
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times
President Obama is creating a post-American world - one that is ushering in the dominance of China. Mr. Obama is fostering U.S. economic and military decline while simultaneously empowering Beijing’s rise to superpower status. China’s communists are on the march. Unless Americans wake up to the growing threat, both internal and external, our victory in the Cold War will have been useless. Published November 11, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘KBL: Kill Bin Laden’
By Gary Anderson - Special to The Washington Times
John Weisman has written the first full account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. However, he did it as a novel, and it won’t take readers long to figure out why he chose that approach. A former journalist, Mr. Weisman uses fiction to protect the identities of the SEALs and their families; he also takes ill-concealed revenge on members of the administration, particularly certain White House staffers and National Security Council operatives, who did their best to scuttle the mission. Published November 11, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘What Would Ben Stein Do?’
By John R. Coyne Jr. - Special to The Washington Times
In 1973-74, Ben Stein was a bone-thin, intense, extremely hardworking young man, still in his 20s, graduate of Yale Law School, just hired onto the small, hand-picked White House writing staff, determined to do his very best for President Nixon (full disclosure: we were colleagues there). And he did, producing, among other things, the primary draft of the first and only national energy plan, as well as the first and last coherent draft of an affordable health care plan. Had it been adopted, there’d have been no Obamacare. Published November 11, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Woodcutter’
By Muriel Dobbin - Special to The Washington Times
The woodcutter is a man of humble origins who achieves remarkable success in business and suddenly finds himself in jail on horrifying charges of pedophilia and corruption, deserted by his wife and friends, facing lifetime imprisonment. Published November 11, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Battle of Midway’
By Vice Adm. Robert F. Dunn - Special to The Washington Times
Craig Symonds has delivered yet another outstanding work, a work that will set the standard for studies of the Battle of Midway for years to come. Even if one thinks one knows all there is to know about Midway, Mr. Symonds’ plethora of new facts, rationales for what and why each side performed the way it did, human interest stories and more make “The Battle of Midway” indispensable. Published November 9, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Pakistan Cauldron’
By Jeff M. Smith - Special to The Washington Times
As Pakistan has forced its way into America’s national con sciousness over the past few years, bookshelves have grown crowded with publications devoted to deciphering the murky politics behind this nuclear-armed nation in perpetual crisis. The latest entry to this roster, “The Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination and Instability,” is a welcome one, and comes to us from James Farwell, a strategic communications guru and longtime adviser to U.S. Special Operations Command and Strategic Command. Published November 8, 2011 Comments
Recent Articles
BOOK REVIEW: 'Crude Awakening'
By Ben Stein - Special to The Washington Times
Alaska scares me. I have only been there once, about five years ago. I was doing a commercial for Alaskan seafood, which I adore. But the producers put me on a tiny raft in the ocean next to a glacier that began to "calve," or break off, and fall into the sea - already terrifyingly choppy - to make the commercial, and I felt close to death every second. The waves were frigid and enormous, and the raft bobbed and pitched dangerously. The calving glacier made it suicide. Published November 4, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Speechwright'
By Aram Bakshian Jr - Special to The Washington Times
Nobody raises their child to be a speechwriter; it's still one of the few working skills most practitioners acquire accidentally while training or studying to be something else. Bill Gavin, the author of this brief but engaging volume of amusing political reminiscences and penetrating rhetorical insights made his accidental entry to presidential speechwriting in 1967, when as a young high school English teacher from a working class, Irish Catholic family in New Jersey, he wrote a letter to Richard Nixon, then a private citizen practicing law in Manhattan. Published November 4, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Romantic Revolution'
By Maxwell Sater - Special to The Washington Times
The word "revolution" is most often used in relation to events of the 18th and 19th centuries. We think of the American and French revolutions - dramatic upheavals that secured freedom and independence - but we also think of the increases in industrialism and consumerism that took place seemingly suddenly across the Western world. Published November 4, 2011 Comments
KUHNER: America's moral decline
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times
Book Review of Laura Ingraham's OF THEE I ZING: AMERICA'S CULTURAL DECLINE FROM MUFFIN TOPS TO BODY SHOTS Published November 2, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'De Gaulle'
By John M. Taylor - Special to The Washington Times
The major leaders in World War II have come down to us as either saints or scoundrels. An exception is the man who led France from exile during World War II, Charles de Gaulle, who is now the subject of a succinct biography by World War II historian Michael Haskew. Published November 1, 2011 Comments
Caro's 4th LBJ book scheduled for May
By Hillel Italie - Associated Press
Robert A. Caro's quest to narrate the life of Lyndon B. Johnson, and document how Johnson handled and created political power, has lasted longer than LBJ's time in government. Published November 1, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Road to Serfdom: Special Abridged Edition'
By Wes Vernon - Special to The Washington Times
From the grave, one of the most honored economists of the 20th century warns America - and all of Western civilization - to be wary of the mirage-like temptations offered by so-called "democratic socialism." While many regimes have fallen for socialism's false promises, Friedrich A. Hayek lived to see the likes of President Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher specifically credit his ideas for much of their own governances respecting the worth of the individual. Published October 31, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Sense of an Ending'
By Corinna Lothar - Special to The Washington Times
Early in Julian Barnes' novel "The Sense of an Ending," a teacher asks, "What is history?" London teenager Tony Webster answers, "History is the lies of the victors." Tony's brilliant friend, Adrian Finn, "a tall, shy boy," answers the same question with "History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." Published October 28, 2011 Comments
DECKER: Buchanan: Take the China Test
By Brett M. Decker - The Washington Times
A review of Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? Published October 28, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Royal Faberge'
By Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington Times
We've all heard the well-worn question-lament, "What do you get someone who already has everything?" But when you come to the Russian imperial and British royal families, with their huge, priceless collections of heirloom jewelry, you realize that for them, this indeed must have been a real problem. Published October 28, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Unlikely Friendships'
By Marion Elizabeth Rodgers - Special to The Washington Times
In the United States, the care of pets seems to be one of the few industries remaining recession-proof. About $40 billion a year is spent on pets' welfare alone. Pet care is booming in emerging markets as well - an $11 billion business, according to the Economist. Chile has more dogs per person than any other Latin American country. Any owner can tell you the myriad ways that dogs and cats enrich our lives. Published October 28, 2011 Comments
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