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BOOK REVIEW: 'Journey to the Abyss'
By Stephen Goode - Special to The Washington Times
Harry Kessler began his diary, now a classic of German literature, in June 1880. He had just turned 12 and for the next nearly 60 years, until his death in 1937, he kept at it, turning it into a work of several volumes. The diaries have been best-sellers in Germany for many years, unusual for a book of epic proportions. Published February 15, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW:’William Henry Harrison’
By John M. Taylor - Special to The Washington Times
Public figures have little control over how they are remembered. Herbert Hoover did not expect to be forever linked to the Great Depression. Richard Nixon never expected to be known as the only president to resign his office. Published February 14, 2012 Comments
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. Published February 13, 2012 Comments
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. Published February 10, 2012 Comments
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. Published February 10, 2012 Comments
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. Published February 10, 2012 Comments
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. Published February 10, 2012 Comments
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BOOK REVIEW: 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents'
By David Wilezol - Special to The Washington Times
There can be little doubt that Americans today consider the presidency to be the most captivating and meaningful institution in American politics. Creative works devoted to the presidency have enjoyed special popularity in recent years. Published February 7, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Blackhorse Riders'
By Ron Nessen - Special to The Washington Times
This book recounts in great detail - sometimes too much detail - a 1970 battle in Vietnam in which soldiers of the 11th Armored Cavalry, known as the Blackhorse Regiment, risked their lives to rescue U.S. infantrymen who were surrounded and outnumbered 7-1 by North Vietnamese troops. Published February 6, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Odds: A Love Story'
By James Bowman - Special to The Washington Times
The subtitle of "The Odds" by Stewart O'Nan ("Emily, Alone") is "A Love Story," but some might find that misleading. There's no boy-meets-girl business here. Art and Marion Fowler are simultaneously let go, he from an insurance company, she from a nursing home, after 30 years of comfortable middle-class existence in Cleveland supported by two incomes Published February 3, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Man Within My Head'
By Claire Hopley - Special to The Washington Times
''Greeneland" describes both the seedy locales where Graham Greene set many of his novels and the state of mind of many of his heroes: doubting, undeceived,living in foreign places in an eternal maybe. Published February 3, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Coming Apart'
By Phil Brand - Special to The Washington Times
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and in this case, the picture is a graph. Many graphs, in fact, but all of them depict the same pattern: Two lines start close together in the 1950s, diverge sharply over the decades and end with a gaping chasm between them today. Published February 3, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Forgotten Affairs of Youth'
By Muriel Dobbin - Special to The Washington Times
She's back, that verbose Scottish philosopher Isabel Dalhousie who has never been known to use 100 words when 2,000 would do. Published February 3, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Consent of the Networked'
By Nicole Russell - Special to The Washington Times
In the United States, a country that fosters innovation and upholds freedom, it can be difficult to imagine circumstances in which citizens use the Internet as anything but a platform for productivity via sites like Google, Twitter or Facebook. Within the first chapter of "Consent of the Networked," author Rebecca MacKinnon shows that for some parts of the world, however, the Internet provides much more. Published February 3, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Fear Index'
By Claire Hopley - Special to The Washington Times
It is a safe bet that bad things are going to happen when the central character of a novel argues for - and imposes - a paperless office. What author sitting down to write fiction could possibly write approvingly of paperlessness? Certainly not Robert Harris: He is a former writer for the British newspapers the Observer and the Sunday Times, and the author of seven previous novels (including "The Ghost Writer"), so his career has been devoted to words on paper. Published February 1, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Reagan on War'
By Joseph C. Goulden - Special to The Washington Times
After World War II, the United States veered from one strategic military policy to another. The "mutual assured de- struction" of President Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers gave way to the "graduated escalation" of Robert McNamara during the Vietnam era. Published January 31, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Elizabeth the Queen'
By Mark A. Kellner - Special to The Washington Times
The story of the woman known to billions as Queen Elizabeth II remains a remarkable one. After the sudden passing of her father, King George VI, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor assumed the throne at the age of 26. It was the 1950s, an era when few women held positions of power and Great Britain was still recovering from the ravages of World War II. Published January 30, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'An Uncertain Place'
By Muriel Dobbin - Special to The Washington Times
There is the matter of a man who ate his way through a wardrobe and another who chewed through a small airplane. And there is the alarming question of feet cut off at the ankle, wearing shoes and trying to hobble into an ancient cemetery. Published January 27, 2012 Comments
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Shanahan’s pedigree, larger market could tempt Manning
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Imagine this: Peyton Manning coming out of the tunnel at FedEx Field this September, poised ...
Admiral nominee rose through ranks despite ‘illogical act’
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times
When Lt. j.g. Timothy W. Dorsey fired his fighter jet’s missile at an Air Force ...
Catholic Bishop joins contraception mandate debate
By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times
Pointing to growing unease that President Obama’s proposed contraception coverage rule doesn’t protect religious freedom ...
