Herbert Hoover: A Life By Glen Jeansonne (New American Library, 455 pages, $28) Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the…
A little thought experiment. What is worse? Someone trying to get people fired from the most awesome job they’ve ever had,…
Books about Christmas, or with Christmassy themes, can be saccharine. Consider a couple that aren’t. Some may argue that the Willie Nelson book Pretty Paper comes close to it in a couple of places. But we give America’s favorite troubadour a bit more latitude than others, do we not? And sentimental or no, the book has its strengths. Willie Nelson fans — you don’t have to go far to find these — will love it.
It’s depressing that all the reviews, pro or con, of Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge seem to have felt constrained to…
Sacramento California’s pension funds continue to face a fusillade of bad news, including new reports showing that retirement benefits consume…
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour,…
On a gorgeous November evening in 2008, surrounded by the shimmering lights of Times Square and swelling anticipation of the people…
As most TAS readers know, the late Williams F. Buckley Jr. was eloquent in the written and spoken word. On the page he could beguile, inform, and amuse in every form, from the 800-word column to book-length nonfiction as well as spy novels. Comes now-author and Fox newsman James Rosen to present and give context to 52 examples of a genre at which Buckley excelled, the eulogy.
No one died. No war was lost. No one was diagnosed with an incurable disease. A candidate lost her bid…
Had Leonard Cohen’s fans understood that he was a culture warrior, it’s unlikely that he would have achieved the pinnacle…
