Books
Oprah Winfrey chooses Elizabeth Strout’s ‘Tell Me Everything’ as her latest book club pick
Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick will be a story of familiar faces - in more ways than one.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia’
Who remembers Pham-thi-Toi? She survived the My Lai massacre in 1968. Six of her relatives did not.
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Hitler’s People’
Nearly all Nazi war criminals were completely aware, remorseless, and proud that they had murdered millions of Jews and others whose mere existence "threatened" their imaginary Aryan race.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power’
Another book about Hitler? Before you wonder whether anything fresh can be written about a man whose life have been the subject of more than 100,000 books and articles, let's note the words of a recent biographer.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Climate Cult’
This past week, temperatures in much of the United States soared to near and above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Temperatures this high are highly unusual, and humans are to blame. This is obvious, right?
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Religionless Christianity: God’s Answer to Evil’
The Christian church is once again at a historic crossroads.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Ian Fleming: The Complete Man’
I've been an Ian Fleming aficionado since my teens, so I was pleased to read "Ian Fleming: The Complete Man," the new biography by Nicholas Shakespeare.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Achilles Trap’
In the 21 years since the U.S. invaded Iraq, the world has sought answers as to why our political and intelligence leaders blundered into strategic and moral catastrophe.
BOOK REVIEWS: ‘The Last Outlaws,’ ‘God Save Benedict Arnold’ and ‘A Murder in Hollywood’
I've recently read and enjoyed three interesting historical true crime books. The books cover Wild West bank robbers, a notorious traitor, a movie star and her gangster boyfriend.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Did It Happen Here?’
The question of whether fascism threatens American democracy became a liberal preoccupation from the moment Donald Trump announced his run for the White House.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here’
No issue better exemplifies our political dysfunction than immigration.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Sailing the Graveyard Sea’
Richard Snow, a former editor-in-chief of American Heritage magazine and a consultant on historical motion pictures, has written a fascinating book about a mutiny aboard a U.S. Navy ship in 1842.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Climate and Energy: The Case for Realism’
"Human emissions of greenhouse gases are causing long term catastrophic climate change." This is the kind of "settled science" narrative that is countered by "Climate and Energy: The Case for Realism."
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability’
"It is a world in which there is one master, one sovereign. And at the end of the day, this is pernicious not only for all those within this system, but also for the sovereign itself because it destroys itself from within."
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Gangsterland’
Podcast host Pete A. Turner observed, "If Dave Pietrusza has written it, it's going to be fun." And fun Gangsterland is.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Politics of Modelling’
Two of the biggest issues impacting public health and welfare involve COVID-19 and climate change decisions.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Making of a King: King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy’
Robert Hardman's "The Making of a King" looks at a world most readers will never directly experience.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Fabulous Failure’
A minor blunder in Bill Clinton's first year in the White House seemed to portend the false hope of a free trade regime that now defines working-class discontent with global capitalism.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Search for Reagan’
In a world seemingly in chaos dealing with wars abroad and unstable domestic politics, it is heartening to see that author Craig Shirley has produced yet another important study of Ronald Reagan.
