Book Review Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Feb 28, 2024

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 … No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism…

by | Feb 14, 2024

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)… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism…

by | Feb 13, 2024

Chronic readers of this column are surely aware that one of my favorite authors, who also happens to be a personal friend, is Kurt Schlichter. Kurt has written eight novels in his Kelly Turnbull serie… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here….

by and | Feb 9, 2024

Saturday mornings at The American Spectator are about to get a whole lot more fun. For the next 10 weeks, Scott McKay’s newest novel, King of the Jungle, will come out chapter by chapter. On today’… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent…

by | Feb 8, 2024

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 Ro… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and…

by | Feb 7, 2024

It was a Capitol Hill press spokesman job for a conservative Florida Congressman that got me to Washington, D.C. in 1982, where I contracted no Potomac Fever whatever. JFK was right when he described … No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here….

by | Feb 1, 2024

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 … No hoodwinking or…

by | Jan 26, 2024

Washington Times contributor Christian Josi’s review of American Spectator founder R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s autobiography How Do We Get Out of Here? Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at The Americ… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and get…

by | Dec 26, 2023

The week between Christmas and the New Year is unlike any other time of year. Hopefully, you have some extra free time to reflect on the past and look forward to the future. Why not take this opportun… No hoodwinking…

by | Dec 18, 2023

The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad By Harrison Salisbury (‎ Da Capo Press, 672 pages, $23) Eighty-two years ago, the Russian city of St. Petersburg — then called Leningrad after the founder of … No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support…

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