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Tag Archives: Biography
Book Review: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
When a loved one dies there is always some(or one) among the grief stricken who are left with the task of writing an obituary. There are people at the paper, at the memorials, who can help, but the burden still … Continue reading
Book Review: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
I love the Oxford English Dictionary. I first got untethered access to it in college (Hurray for the benefits of ludicrously overpriced education!), now granted this was in attempting to find a ‘unique’ interpretation to a couple of John … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Nonfiction
Tagged Biography, Book about Books, British History, crime, Dictionary, Humanities, Insanitarium, madness, murder, Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester, words, writing
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Book Review: Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century by Daniel Oppenheimer
[Note: I read this book a year ago. Things have changed no small bit since then, but a review is a review and I’m posting it as is.] A great election-year book. An exploration of the journey of personal politics … Continue reading
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Tagged american history, Biography, Christopher Hitchens, Conservative, Daniel Oppenheimer, David Horowitz, Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century, James Burnhan, Liberal, Norman Pohhoretz, philsophy, Ronald Reagan, Sociology, Whittaker Chambers
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Book Review: The President’s Club by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy
It’s impossible to review The President’s Club without look towards the last few weeks. In the same way that one can no more look at the first century of the Roman Empire without looking at Nero and Caligula. And … Continue reading
Book Review: Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century by Sergei Kostin
The book didn’t start off promising. It started in fact with a foreword written by Richard V. Allen. This name meant nothing to me, but when I approach books outside of my usual stalking grounds this tends to be the … Continue reading
A Land of Rum and Writing 