Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy: Interviews with Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.By Caroline Kennedy & Michael Beschloss(Hyperion, 400 pages, 8 CDs, $60) THIS BOOK CONSISTS of the transcripts of seven rather extensive tape-recorded conversations that Jacqueline Kennedy,…
Brief Lives: An Intimate and Very Personal Portrait of the Twentieth Century By Paul Johnson (UK: Huchison, 304 pages, £20) PAUL JOHNSON NEEDS NO to most readers of this publication, or indeed to serious and literate men and women throughout…
Kissinger: 1973, The Crucial Year By Alistair Horne (Simon & Schuster, 457 pages, $30) Recently marking his 86th year, Henry Kissinger remains unique among recent American secretaries of state—indeed, perhaps of all of our secretaries of state. Born in Furth,…
Young Che: Memories of Che Guevara by his Father By Ermesto Guevara Lynch Edited and Translated by Lucía Álvarez de Toledo (Vintage Books, 350 pages, $14.95 paper) Young Che is the latest addition to the vast flood of devotional literature…
Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. BushBy Peter W. Rodman. Introduction by Henry A. Kissinger. (Alfred A. Knopf, 368 pages, $26.95) Reviewed by Mark Falcoff THE LATE PETER RODMAN, who…
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The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation by Strobe Talbott (Simon & Schuster, 495 pages, $28) Now that so many people within the media and outside of it assume that…
(This review will appear in the March 2008 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to our monthly print edition, click here.) Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism By Alfred S. Regnery (Threshold/Simon & Schuster, 448 pages, $26) SOMEWHERE BACK…