Standing Up Space Force: The Road to the Nation’s Sixth Armed Service By Forrest L. Marion (Naval Institute Press, 289 pages, $82) In two much-publicized novels that envision the next world war, the United States is attacked first in space…
The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century By Ben Steil (Simon & Schuster, 704 pages, $40) When you arrive at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum on the grounds of the Roosevelt…
Hitchcock’s Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director’s Dark Obsession By Laurence Leamer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 336 pages, $29) When I first heard about Laurence Leamer’s Hitchcock’s Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director’s Dark Obsession, I was…
Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? By Philip Gefter (Bloomsbury Publishing, 368 pages, $32) If you’ve never seen the 1966 movie Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Mike Nichols…
Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher—Television By Foster Hirsch (Knopf, 672 pages, $40) If you listen to the Left, the 1950s…
The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson By Patrick Weil (Harvard University Press, 378 pages, $35) Had you told Mattie Ross that Woodrow Wilson’s reverence for his father indicated he…
Ronald Reagan’s Enduring Principles: How They Can Promote Political Success Today By Donald J. Devine (The Fund for American Studies, 177 pages, $10) Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on this date, Feb. 6, over a century ago — 1911. It…
Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Disappointed, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood By David Mamet (Simon & Schuster, 256 pages, $28) A couple of years ago I raved about David Mamet’s delightful, cocksure collection of essays, Recessional:…
I Will Not Eat Crickets: A Lone Satirist Declares War on the Globalist Elite By Itxu Díaz (Bombardier Books, 202 pages, $18) Want to read a whole book about globalism? No? Think again. In I Will Not Eat Crickets: A…