Leonora Cravotta
Hollywood, the city that launched the golden age of the motion picture industry, has long epitomized both the realization and the death of dreams. Literature and popular culture have reflected Tinseltown’s cruel paradox that every success story is matched by…
America, A Redemption Story: Choosing Hope, Creating Unity By Sen. Tim Scott (Nelson Books, 208 pages, $29) Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the first black American to serve in both chambers of Congress, has repeatedly stated that he…
Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child By Betsy DeVos (Center Street, 320 pages, $29) Horace Mann (1796–1859) famously commented, “We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled…
The Turning Point: 1851 — A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Knopf, 368 pages, $30) 1851 was not only a pivotal year in the professional and personal life of the legendary writer Charles Dickens,…
Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias: Why the Press Gets So Much Wrong — And Just Doesn’t Care By Ari Fleischer (Broadside Books: 368 pages, $28.99) Liberals embrace diversity everywhere except the newsroom. While Republicans represent approximately 50 percent of America’s…
Here’s the Deal: A Memoir By Kellyanne Conway (Simon & Schuster: 512 pages, $18.79) I met Kellyanne Conway by chance at a D.C. event less than a month ago. When I gave her my card, she responded, “Leonora is a…
The Rise of China, Inc.: How the Chinese Communist Party Transformed China into a Giant Corporation By Shaomin Li (Cambridge University Press, 346 pages, $30) The symbiotic relationship between China’s government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enables China to…
Men are endowed with inherent powers that should be deployed to advance the greater good. Unfortunately, the woke police have labeled these powers as “toxic masculinity” and pressured men to suppress their natural talents and instincts to society’s detriment. That…
France’s much-anticipated 2022 presidential election, which held its first round on April 10, proved to be a déjà vu moment that recalled the 2017 election. The incumbent centrist, Emmanuel Macron of the Republic on the Move Party, garnered 27.6 percent of…
