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BOOK REVIEW: 'Rule and Ruin'
By James E. Person Jr. - Special to The Washington Times
In his autobiography, English man of letters G.K. Chesterton not only recounted the story of his own life, he also assessed the lives of his many friends and acquaintances in Edwardian-era London. At one point Chesterton, a champion of Christian orthodoxy, described his dear friend H.G. Wells, a lifelong skeptic, as a man who “was so often nearly right, that his movements irritated me like the sight of somebody’s hat being perpetually washed up by the sea and never touching the shore.” Published February 21, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘An Honourable Englishman’
By Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington Times
Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) was one of the most famous and admired British historians of his time, holder of Oxford University’s prestigious Regius Professorship. He was also widely known for his best-selling “Last Days of Hitler,” based on fresh research gathered soon after the fuhrer’s suicide, and for his many forays in newspapers and journals in his role as a public intellectual on the historical and political controversies of his day. Published February 20, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Bible, the School, and the Constitution’
By Gary Bauer - Special to The Washington Times
Those of us disturbed by the secularization of America’s schools often point to Supreme Court decisions handed down in the early 1960s as the turning point in the federal government’s efforts to expunge faith from public education. Published February 17, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Roger Williams’
By James Srodes - Special to The Washington Times
This biography should be read with today’s headlines in mind. When a president of the United States by fiat demands that a particular church group abandon a centuries-old tenet of its faith to enforce public policy, he is re-enacting - perhaps unwittingly - a drama that unfolded when the Puritan hierarchy of the Massachusetts Bay Colony tried to force its will on dissenter Roger Williams. Published February 17, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Charles Dickens: A Life’
By Brian Murray - Special to The Washington Times
In 1849, London’s Fraser’s Magazine had high praise for the author of the recently published “David Copperfield.” “There is not a fireside in the Kingdom,” proclaimed Fraser’s, “where the cunning fellow has not contrived to secure a corner for himself as one of the dearest, and by this time one of the oldest friends of the family.” Published February 17, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘History of a Pleasure Seeker’
By Claire Hopley - Special to The Washington Times
As the cadence of its title suggests, “History of a Pleasure Seeker” is a picaresque novel in the 18th-century tradition of JohnCleland’s “Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure” and Henry Fielding’s “The History of Tom Jones.” Published February 17, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Meaning of Marriage
By Albin Sadar - Special to The Washington Times
In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 single-set thriller, “Rear Window,” Stella (played by Thelma Ritter) gives wheelchair-bound L.B. Jeffries (Jimmy Stewart) a terse marital message along with his massage. “When two people love each other,” she says, “they come together - wham! - like two taxis on Broadway.” Published February 17, 2012 Comments
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BOOK REVIEW: 'Living Originalism'
By Robert VerBruggen - Special to The Washington Times
The central tension in American constitutional law for decades has been between originalists and advocates of a "living Constitution." Originalists say the meaning of the Constitution does not change over time - and in order to figure out what the Constitution means, judges and other interpreters should study the time period in which it was enacted and try to ascertain what it meant to the people involved.
BOOK REVIEW: 'It Was a Long Time Ago, And It Never Happened Anyway'
By Joseph C. Goulden - Special to The Washington Times
Anyone who has paid heed to Russia in the two decades since the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union has come to realize that things have not worked out all that well. Those desiring better lives, seeking the freedoms enjoyed by other peoples of the world, threw off the shackles of an authoritarian state that routinely persecuted, imprisoned and murdered its citizens by the millions.
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Confession'
By Muriel Dobbin - Special to The Washington Times
Ian Rutledge, Britain's most haunted detective, is back in another dark and gripping saga linked to the grief of World War I. Charles Todd's latest book is launched when a dying man walks into Rutledge's office at Scotland Yard and confesses to killing his cousin during the war.
BOOK REVIEW: 'Albert: A Life'
By Priscilla S. Taylor - Special to The Washington Times
Jules Stewart, a former Reuters journalist who has written several histories of Afghanistan, timed his short biography of Prince Albert (1819-1861) for release in December 2011 to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the prince's death.
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Al Qaeda Factor'
By Joshua Sinai - Special to The Washington Times
In "The Al Qaeda Factor," Mitchell D. Silber investigates the extent to which al Qaeda's "core" in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region has been involved in organizing terrorist plots against the West since the World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
BOOK REVIEW: 'Steve Jobs'
By James Srodes - Special to The Washington Times
Walter Isaacson has become the James Boswell of genius. For the past 25 years, Mr. Isaacson has been examining the lives of subjects whose common thread is that they have been judged to have exceptional intellectual abilities that give them unprecedented insight. That last phrase, by the way, is the Wikipedia definition of genius. So there.
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