
Aram Bakshian Jr.
Bismarck: A LifeBy Jonathan Steinberg (Oxford University Press, 577 pages, $34.95) IT IS OFTEN said of larger-than-life celebrities and politicians…
The Decline and Fall of the American RepublicBy Bruce Ackerman(Belknap/Harvard University Press, 270 pages, $25.95) “Bruce Ackerman is worried,” the…
My Father at 100: A Memoir By Ron Reagan (Viking, 228 pages, $25.95) Chalk up another awesome insight to the…
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African BeliefBy V.S. Naipaul(Knopf, 241 pages, $26.95) “For my travel books I travel on a…
Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food By Colman Andrews (Gotham Books, 301 pages,…
Oh, for the oompahs of yesteryear! Bustling, jolly German restaurants and their attendant bars, beer gardens, and wine cellars —…