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  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Gallipoli'

    By John M. Taylor - Special to The Washington Times

    ”Whether success or failure attends you,” wrote British admiral Sir Edward Seymour in the late 19th century, “England nearly always approves an officer who has evidently done his best. You have only to do what seems proper, and if it turns out badly, it is the fault of Nature for not having made you cleverer.” Adm. Seymour was not involved in the Franco-British campaign against Turkey in World War I, but his spirit was very much present. Published November 18, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Cut’

    By John Greenya - Special to The Washington Times

    In this, his 17th novel, George Pelecanos proves once again that his knowledge of Washington, D.C., its streets, its neighborhoods and, especially, a certain stratum of its people is unparalleled. Also as usual, he writes like an angel - an angel with dirty hands, but an angel nonetheless. Published November 18, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Cat Stories’

    By Claire Hopley - Special to The Washington Times

    The thing about cats is that it’s not clear that we domesticated them. Humans colonized dogs and horses for hunting, guarding and transportation. They rounded up sheep and cows for wool and milk and meat. But cats can’t be rounded up and are not trained to give useful services. Published November 18, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Ostkrieg’

    By Joseph C. Goulden

    Accounts of World War II - including some published under auspices of the U.S. Army - have tended to portray officers of the Wehrmacht (the German army) as “professionally competent, technically proficient, and above all, clean.” Published November 16, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Luck and Circumstance’

    By Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington Times

    It is refreshing to encounter this memoir by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. His life was haunted by a specter, and yet he is able - on paper, anyway - to bear it lightly with consummate grace. The specter in question was none other than the overwhelming figure of Orson Welles, who may or may not have been his father. Published November 15, 2011 Comments

  • Novelist DeLillo turns pen to short stories

    By Hillel Italie - Associated Press

    Don DeLillo is among the world’s most influential and celebrated writers, but only close observers of his jacket photos are likely to recognize his face - roundish and dark-eyed, with lowered eyebrows and a watchful, withholding expression, as if he were the bearer of classified information. Published November 15, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Devil Himself: A Novel’

    By John Weisman - Special to The Washington Times

    Cloaking fact inside fiction can produce a fascinating product, and that is precisely what Washington, D.C., writer Eric Dezenhall has done in “The Devil Himself.” Mr. Dezenhall builds his tale on one of World War II’s forgotten stories: how Meyer Lansky, godfather of New York’s Kosher Nostra, cobbled together a network of thieves, murderers, union strong-arm hoodlums and other assorted felons to help the U.S. Navy find a German spy ring that was betraying information to the Nazi wolf packs operating just off American shores and sinking large numbers of ships during the first few years of World War II. Published November 14, 2011 Comments

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  • DECKER & TRIPLETT: China's ruling elite

    By and William C. Triplett II - The Washington Times

    One of the most widely believed myths about China today is that market reforms, a growing economy and a purportedly more progressive government are leading to a new age of opportunity. PRC propagandists point out that the country's middle class has grown from nothing a few decades ago to 100 million or so in 2010. Published November 16, 2011 Comments

  • BLANKLEY: Chapter and verse on China's moral predations

    By Tony Blankley - The Washington Times

    A just-released book, "Bowing to Beijing" by Brett M. Decker and William C. Triplett II, will change forever the way you think about China - even if, like me, you already have the deepest worries about the Chinese threat. As I opened the book, I was expecting to find many useful examples of Chinese military and industrial efforts to get the better of the United States and the West. Published November 14, 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: '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: '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

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'The Comeback'

    By James Srodes - Special to The Washington Times

    Author Gary Shapiro begins this well-written, thoughtful panegyric to American inventiveness with a gothic horror tale that shocks even someone familiar with how policy gets made in Washington Published November 7, 2011 Comments

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Sovereignty or Submission'

    By W. James Antle III - Special to The Washington Times

    Black helicopters and "one-world government" have long been staples of conspiracy theories across the political spectrum, but, as the saying goes, even paranoids have real enemies. Hudson Institute senior fellow John Fonte has written a new book showing that there really are people in positions of authority who would dilute national sovereignty and transfer political power to unaccountable transnational organizations. Published November 4, 2011 Comments

  • 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: '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

  • 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

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