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BOOK REVIEW: 'Throw Them All Out'
By W. James Antle III - Special to The Washington Times
Three years ago, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul, made Hillary Rodham Clinton’s success with cattle futures look like a child’s lemonade stand. The credit card giant Visa was holding an initial public offering, among the most lucrative ever seen. The Pelosis were granted early access to the IPO as “special customers” who received their shares at the opening price, $44. The lucky investors turned in a 50 percent profit in just two days. Published November 22, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Red Army’
By Wes Vernon - Special to The Washington Times
America is under attack. Not by a uniformed army with rifles and tanks. But the inva- sion is here and advancing. The soldiers of the attacking “Red Army” are part of a “radical network” that “excels at lying in wait and perfecting its assault so that when the right vehicle arrives, whether it’s President Obama or someone else, it is ready to strike.” Published November 21, 2011 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘December 1941’
By Peter Hannaford - Special to The Washington Times
When 1941 dawned, about half the nation wanted to stand aside from “Europe’s wars,” and about half thought “preparedness” was imperative to help the embattled British and rearm ourselves. Few actually thought we would be dragged into a war. Published November 18, 2011 Comments
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
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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
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
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: '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
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: '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
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 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: '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
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