In honor of president’s day, the Spectator will be republishing this week essays and reviews on our nation’s best — and worst — leaders. John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private LifePaul C. NagelKnopf/432 pages/$30 Our sixth President has…
I’m Wild Again: Snippets From My Life and a Few Brazen Thoughts By Helen Gurley Brown (St. Martin’s Press, 287 pages, $24.95) Twenty-five years ago when I wrote for Cosmopolitan, I was lunching with one of the editors when the…
(This review by Florence King ran in the March 2008 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to our monthly print edition, click here.)
(This review by Florence King ran in the Dec.2007-Jan. 2008 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to our monthly print edition, click here.)
This review by Florence King appeared in the September 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to our monthly print edition, click here. Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770 by Emily Cockayne (Yale University Press, 335 pages,…
This review by Florence King appears in the June 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to the monthly print edition, click here. Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford Edited by Peter Y. Sussman (Knopf, 744 pages, $35) DO…
This review by Florence King appears in the April 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to the monthly print edition, click here. The Man Who Would Not Shut Up: The Rise of Bill O’Reilly by Marvin Kitman (St….
This review by Florence King appeared in the March 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to the monthly print edition, click here. Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir By Gore Vidal (Doubleday, 277 pages, $26) SHOOT IF YOU…
This review appears in the February 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to the monthly print edition, click here. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler (Knopf, 851 pages, $35) WALT DISNEY HAD MUCH…