By Wes Vernon - Special to The Washington Times
This is not merely “another Gershwin book” about the music that has survived almost a full century. Many edifying accounts of the towering 20th-century iconic Gershwin brothers have been published in the 76 years since George (the composer) died at age 37. Published June 20, 2013 Comments
By Frank T. Csongos - Special to The Washington Times
Diana West’s book, “American Betrayal,” is bound to generate spirited debate with her assertion that the United States has been lurching toward socialism since the days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Published June 19, 2013 Comments
By William Murchison - Special to The Washington Times
Robert Peter George has to be one of the most civilized people laboring around these parts to make sense of the muddle we call modern life. The word “civilized” I use in its, shall we say, civilized sense — as marking ownership of, or attachment to, qualities formerly associated with the good life: judgment, propriety, dignity, reasonableness, not to mention old-fashioned common sense. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By Kyle Peterson - Special to The Washington Times
On one point, Kevin Williamson is almost certainly right: We are headed over the cliff. But halfway through the National Review correspondent’s new book, “The End Is Near and It’s Going to be Awesome,” I began to wonder what the final word of his title is supposed to mean. Published June 17, 2013 Comments
By Steven Mosher - Special to The Washington Times
George Orwell once remarked that we have less sympathy for the 7 million victims of Stalin’s famine in Ukraine and the Caucasus than we do for the dog that we just hit on the road. The dog is an audible yelp and visible carnage: flesh, blood, bone and fur scattered over the highway. The 7,000,000 dead Ukrainians, on the other hand, are just a number. Published June 14, 2013 Comments
By Michael Taube - Special to The Washington Times
Over the course of three days of intense fighting, the Union Army defeated the Confederate States Army on the bloodstained battlefield. It has become widely known as a crucial turning point in this tumultuous period of U.S. history. The loss of human life was extensive, families were torn apart and the country would never be the same again. Published June 13, 2013 Comments
By Paul Davis - Special to The Washington Times
There have been a good number of books written about Boston’s Irish mob boss, Whitey Bulger, and up to now “Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI and a Devil’s Deal” by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill was the best one in my view. But Mr. Lehr and Mr. O’Neill have surpassed themselves with “Whitey.” Published June 13, 2013 Comments
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
Best-selling author Vince Flynn, who sold more than 15 million books in the U.S. alone, died Wednesday in Minnesota after two years battling prostate cancer, according to his publisher. He was 47. Published June 19, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
From the moment the Group of Eight summit began, the dividing lines on how to intervene in the Syrian civil war became clear: The U.S. and its European allies on one side, Russia on the other. Published June 17, 2013
By Corinna Lothar - Special to The Washington Times
"Snapper" is not a book about fish. Nor is it about birds, although birds play an important role. It isn't really a novel, or even a collection of short stories. It is what the author correctly calls "a book." Published June 7, 2013
By Gary Anderson - Special to The Washington Times
Steve Vogel's "The Perilous Fight" is probably the best piece of military history that I have read or reviewed in the past five years. It is the story of the last six weeks of the war between Great Britain and the United States that began in 1812. Published June 6, 2013
By John R. Coyne Jr. - Special to The Washington Times
As John Pafford, friend and biographer of Russell Kirk, suggests in his title, with the exception of certain libertarian historians at academic centers such as Lew Rockwell's highly respected Ludwig von Mises Institute, Grover Cleveland is largely forgotten — and if not forgotten, then remembered primarily for a series of unusual firsts and seconds. Published June 5, 2013
By John Taylor and John M. Taylor - Special to The Washington Times
Nearly seven decades have passed since the close of World War II, yet appreciation of its horrors seems to increase as time passes. More than 50 million people are estimated to have died from 1939 through 1945, 20 million of them in Russia. The extent of destruction and sacrifice that the war engendered remains difficult to comprehend. Published June 3, 2013
