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‘Toxic Politics’ Review: Can Xi Jinping Clean House?
Via: Vic Eldred
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It may not be the most entertaining book published this year, but in foreign relations it may be among the most useful. “Toxic Politics: China’s Environmental Health Crisis and Its Challenge to...
The Trouble With Words We’ve Read but Not Heard
Via: Vic Eldred
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On Oct. 16, at a political rally in Macon, Ga., Sen. David Perdue invoked the name of his colleague, Sen. Kamala Harris. “Ka-ma-la, Ka-ma-la, Kamala-mala-mala,” Mr. Perdue said, before finally...
‘This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing’ Review: Fruits of Memory
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When Jacqueline Winspear was 4 years old she was given a child-size set of cleaning rags—for housekeeping, not for playing house. She already had her own garden shovel, her own tool kit and almost...
‘Made Men’ Review: ‘How Am I Funny?’
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Thirty years after the release of “Goodfellas,” the film’s grip on popular culture remains firm. Drawing on Nicholas Pileggi’s book “Wiseguy” (1985)—about the travails of Henry Hill, an eager mob...
‘The Last Assassin’ Review: Avenging a Conspiracy
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‘They had to be like the Furies of tragedy, hounding down the guilty until the last stain was cleansed.” So writes esteemed British journalist Peter Stothard of the Roman commanders who punished...
Politics: The Presidential Pen
Via: Vic Eldred
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Craig Fehrman’s anthology “The Best Presidential Writing: From 1789 to the Present” (Avid Reader, 485 pages, $30) arrives at either the best possible moment for such a book, or the worst. But...
