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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: ‘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 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: ‘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: ‘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
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BOOK REVIEW: 'Dangerous Ambition'
By Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington Times
Dual biographies are a tough proposition, as Susan Hertog says with a winning candor and "great humility" at the outset: "I have had the utter gall to think I can understand and link TWO lives - women who were boundby friendship, a consonant social and political vision, and the commonality of fame, marriage and motherhood." Published January 27, 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
BOOK REVIEW: 'Hedy's Folly'
By Sandra McElwaine - Special to The Washington Times
As you pick up a copy of "Hedy's Folly," with its eye-popping jacket of an incandescent Hedy Lamarr seductively wrapped around a gilded torpedo, you begin to wonder just what exactly you are getting into. The subtitle, "The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of the Most Beautiful Woman in the World," gives you a clue. Published January 27, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Wanted Women'
By Lauren Weiner - Special to The Washington Times
"Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui" is a good book. Or rather, two. Deborah Scroggins takes Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the critic of Islam and former Dutch parliamentarian, down a few pegs. Published January 25, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Marshall and His Generals'
By John M. Taylor - Special to The Washington Times
The U.S. Army entered World War II with distinct assets and liabilities. On the debit side, it was small in terms of personnel. Much of its equipment was inferior to the Germans' in both quality and quantity. And its senior officers had no combat experience to compare with that of the enemy. Published January 24, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Glock'
By Robert VerBruggen - Special to The Washington Times
It must be hard to write a corporate history that makes for gripping reading, but Paul M. Barrett has done just that with "Glock: The Rise of America's Gun." Of course, he's aided by the fact that Glock is no ordinary company; it makes a fascinating and deadly product, and its story features everything from come-from-behind victories to strippers to an assassination attempt. Published January 23, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Digital Assassination'
By David All - Special to The Washington Times
The Internet is a boundless universe of information and connections that fuels the economy, enhances world culture and fosters democracy. But it also is home to digital assassins who lurk undetected and lob verbal, visual and technological grenades to ruin reputations - and enlist others via social media to achieve their evil ends more quickly. Published January 20, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Tyndale'
If you're not familiar with the work of William Tyndale, you should be. Even today, English speakers owe a debt to the man martyred at age 42 for the "heretical" act of translating the Bible into English. Published January 20, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Making the News, Taking the News'
By John R. Coyne Jr. - Special to The Washington Times
From 1974 to 1977, Ron Nessen, a former NBC newsman, served as White House press secretary to President Ford, who had taken office at a time of great turmoil and uncertainty both at home and abroad. Published January 20, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Doll'
By Corinna Lothar - Special to The Washington Times
Romance, upper-class hypocrisy, the misunderstandings seemingly inherent in male-female relationships and the sudden rush of passion are contrasted with the natural beauty of the English countryside - sometimes bucolic and sometimes wild and stormy. This is the world of Daphne du Maurier's elegant and ironic stories. Published January 20, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'Lisbon'
By Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington Times
As this vivid account of the key role the Portuguese capital played during World War II tells us, when the traditional European "City of Light" - Paris - lay extinguished under the dark cloud of Nazi occupation, Lisbon's lights burned bright. When, one after another, most of Europe's lamps went out, as they had a generation earlier in another world war, to be replaced by somber blackout, Lisbon's bright street lighting and neon signs struck visitors as surreal. Published January 18, 2012 Comments
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Former U.Va. lacrosse player pleads not guilty to murder
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
A University of Virginia lacrosse player and Washington scion accused of killing a classmate and ...
Obama orders new sanctions against Iran
By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times
President Obama signed an executive order Monday morning freezing all U.S.-held assets of the Iranian ...
Police: Powell planned deadly fire for some time
By Brian Skoloff, Gene Johnson and Mike Baker - Associated Press
Authorities say Josh Powell planned the deadly house fire that killed him and his young ...
