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BOOK REVIEW: 'The Al Qaeda Factor'
By Joshua Sinai - Special to The Washington Times
In “The Al Qaeda Factor,” Mitchell D. Silber investigates the extent to which al Qaeda’s “core” in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region has been involved in organizing terrorist plots against the West since the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Published February 10, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Steve Jobs’
By James Srodes - Special to The Washington Times
Walter Isaacson has become the James Boswell of genius. For the past 25 years, Mr. Isaacson has been examining the lives of subjects whose common thread is that they have been judged to have exceptional intellectual abilities that give them unprecedented insight. That last phrase, by the way, is the Wikipedia definition of genius. So there. Published February 10, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Albert: A Life’
By Priscilla S. Taylor - Special to The Washington Times
Jules Stewart, a former Reuters journalist who has written several histories of Afghanistan, timed his short biography of Prince Albert (1819-1861) for release in December 2011 to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the prince’s death. Published February 10, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Confession’
By Muriel Dobbin - Special to The Washington Times
Ian Rutledge, Britain’s most haunted detective, is back in another dark and gripping saga linked to the grief of World War I. Charles Todd’s latest book is launched when a dying man walks into Rutledge’s office at Scotland Yard and confesses to killing his cousin during the war. Published February 10, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Rome and Rhetoric’
By James Bowman - Special to The Washington Times
First, let’s acknowledge that Garry Wills’ book-length discussion of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” is full of useful information and likely to be an indispensable companion to students of the play in years to come. It collects in one place much of what you need to know about Shakespeare’s knowledge of the classical world and, up to a point, offers a useful account of what he was doing with it in the play. Published February 8, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents’
By David Wilezol - Special to The Washington Times
There can be little doubt that Americans today consider the presidency to be the most captivating and meaningful institution in American politics. Creative works devoted to the presidency have enjoyed special popularity in recent years. Published February 7, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Blackhorse Riders’
By Ron Nessen - Special to The Washington Times
This book recounts in great detail - sometimes too much detail - a 1970 battle in Vietnam in which soldiers of the 11th Armored Cavalry, known as the Blackhorse Regiment, risked their lives to rescue U.S. infantrymen who were surrounded and outnumbered 7-1 by North Vietnamese troops. Published February 6, 2012 Comments
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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
BOOK REVIEW: 'Elizabeth the Queen'
By Mark A. Kellner - Special to The Washington Times
The story of the woman known to billions as Queen Elizabeth II remains a remarkable one. After the sudden passing of her father, King George VI, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor assumed the throne at the age of 26. It was the 1950s, an era when few women held positions of power and Great Britain was still recovering from the ravages of World War II. Published January 30, 2012 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Thomas Sowell Reader'
By James E. Person Jr. - Special to The Washington Times
"The Thomas Sowell Reader" is a collection to be lingered over, a bouquet of clarity, wit and common sense regarding American life, served up in a world accustomed to sprays of excuse-mongering, dying-duck special pleading and smug ideological twaddle. 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: '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: '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: '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
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By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
Newt Gingrich is not done yet, despite gleeful pronouncements by pundits and foes who insist ...
Fires burn in Athens as parliament approves harsh economic bill
By Derek Gatopoulos and Nicholas Paphitis - Associated Press
Greece’s parliament has approved an austerity and debt-relief bill, crucial for the country to avoid ...
Santorum: Country needs a ‘Richie Cunningham’
By Ben Wolfgang and David Eldridge - The Washington Times
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum isn’t the coolest candidate in American politics, but the former ...
