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Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman Davies: review
By John Adamson With its comic-opera uniforms, fairy tale castles and out-of-tune military band, “Ruritania” – the fictional setting of many a novel and film – has tended to define most Britons’ view...
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No Higher Honour: a Memoir of My Years in Washington by Condoleezza Rice
By Toby Harnden There’s a saying in Washington that every political memoir can be boiled down to six words: “If Only They’d Listened to Me.” If that’s true then Condoleezza Rice’s weighty and rather...
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‘The Expats,’ a Thriller by Chris Pavone – Book Review
Review by Janet Maslin There are two salient quirks in “The Expats,” Chris Pavone’s novel about Americans abroad. The first is Luxembourg, a place about which Mr. Pavone can be sure most readers know...
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Book Review – The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
Review by Ron Charles Bookstores crumble under Amazon’s hegemony. Book sections vanish into journalism’s glory days. And book critics fade behind a cacophony of online reviews. But Oprah abides! In...
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Book Review –‘The Dawn of Innovation,’ by Charles R. Morris
Review by Michael Lind In 1886, according to Charles R. Morris in “The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution,” “Bloomingdale’s catalog — 160 pages, stuffed with some 1,700...
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Book Review –‘The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of...
Review by David Greenberg In the prime of his life, Joseph Patrick Kennedy was known not as the father of a president and two great contenders, but as a frequently named presidential possibility...
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Book Review – Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide...
Review by William Mulligan In the late 1980s Paul Kennedy rose to international prominence with his study of the rise and fall of the great powers in modern history. His argument was one of elegant...
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Book review –‘Words From the White House: Words and Phrases Coined or...
Review by Steven Livingston President Obama is now hard at work carving out his legacy — his heart set on being remembered for decisive action on health care, gun control, immigration and equal...
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‘Tested By Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian...
Review by Glenn Kessler Sometimes the most revealing administration memoirs are not written by the key principals. Elliott Abrams, a deputy national security adviser under President George W. Bush,...
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Book Review – Birth Of A Nation by James M. Butler
Review by J.J. Collins Ever wondered what if the Confederate South had won the American Civil War? How would history have emerged? What if the Confederate States of America and The United States of...
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The Last Man in Russia and the Struggle to Save a Dying Nation by Oliver...
Written by Ian Thomson The illusion of drink-fuelled happiness is familiar to most, even if the hangover seems a cruel price to pay. You could say that alcoholism is a chemical misfortune. Hundreds of...
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Book Review – The Book of My Lives, by Aleksandar Hemon
Review written by Duncan White There is an odd sensation, common to anyone settling in America, of all this strangeness being terribly familiar: the vast cars, the black power lines looping from...
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