One of the names floated as a possible vice-presidential candidate—floated, interestingly enough, by both parties—is Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel. Hagel was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996 and established himself as […]
Tennessee Williams spent the last few years of his life writing, revising, rewriting, and reworking a play that would become his final frustrated howl at the world. And he considered it a […]
History has returned from the dead. The idyllic future, once considered inevitable by Western leaders in the early 1990s, is dead instead. The dreams of a liberal, all-men-are-created-equal world are dead, too. […]
Alan Pell Crawford’s Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson tries to simultaneously be a Jefferson lovefest and an attempt at balanced history. Jefferson himself was a man of well-documented […]
It might be easy to categorize Lauren Groff’s debut novel The Monsters of Templeton as chick-lit with literary pretensions. After all, the main character, Willie Upton, returns to her hometown in self-imposed […]
The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country by Howard Fineman Random House, 320 pp. Americans love to argue. In fact, we would not be Americans if we […]
The Bloody Shirt by Stephen Budiansky Most Americans don’t realize that a large portion of our country was, once upon a time, overrun by barbarians. That age of barbarians isn’t covered in […]
by Chris Mackowski Mr. Adams’s Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams’s Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress by Joseph Wheelan PublicAffairs Publishing Fewer families in America have had a greater influence on the country […]
by Chris Mackowski The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Thomas Dunne Books–St. Martin’s Press 324 pp. What would the world be like if the human race just up and vanished? “Unlikely, […]
