Left to Their Own Devices
Perhaps the greatest challenge every current affairs author faces is the inevitable decision of…
Tag: Book reviews
Busting up the Boom-Bust Cycle
Throughout the 1920s and '30s, many economists were preoccupied by a topic given poignancy by…
All the Rory Details
Alan Shipnuck has very good timing. His new book is a biography of Rory McIlroy, the golf champion.…
Europe’s Painful Quest for Unity
All roads lead to the European Union. This, in a nutshell, is the argument of Roderick Beaton's…
Guilty Reading Pleasure
If you are a bookish person, odds are that your running gift-list for family members, friends,…
Samuel Alito Gets Down to Business
Mollie Hemingway has written the rare Supreme Court book that's both useful and enjoyable.…
Lloyd Blankfein’s Hard Knock Wall Street Life
From a very young age, Lloyd Blankfein, the former chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs from 2006…
Prime Time for Japan’s War Minister
REVIEW: ‘Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Most Controversial World War II General’ by Peter Mauch…
From Codfish Cakes to Cap’n Crunch
If you have never encountered, or had to provide sustenance for, kiddos who eat a narrow,…
A Politician Who Belongs to the Ages
In his 1994 survey of Lincoln in American Memory, Merrill D. Peterson identified five themes which…
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