All too many hotel bars are little more than shoddy afterthoughts, soulless spaces where hotel guests, and almost no one…
The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New MajorityBy Patrick J. Buchanan(Crown Forum, 392 pages,…
Long before there was a Four Seasons or a Mayflower or a Hay Adams, Washington, D.C. had only one grand…
The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817By Myron Magnet(Norton, 472 pages, $35) Myron Magnet, editor-at-large of City Journal, set…
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and LongingBy Anya Von Bremzen(Crown, 338 pages, $26) One of…
Franco’s Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936By Jeremy Treglown(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 pages, $30) When Generalissimo Francisco Franco…
Historians will record that the 1993 Clinton inauguration actually began the year before in early November. Scarcely had the votes…
Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It By Richard H. Sanders…
On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives Who Shaped Our World By James Srodes (Counterpoint Press, 325…
“Beer,” the venerable Nürnberger confided to me with a discreet belch, “has one distinct advantage over sex; when you finally…