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'Shortchanged' Review: Technically Advanced

'Shortchanged' Review: Technically Advanced

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'William F. Buckley Sr.' Review: Conservatism's Mexican Roots

'William F. Buckley Sr.' Review: Conservatism's Mexican Roots

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Candidate Memoir Season, from Ron DeSantis to Nikki Haley

Candidate Memoir Season, from Ron DeSantis to Nikki Haley

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'The Last Campaign' Review: Battles of Sherman and Geronimo

'The Last Campaign' Review: Battles of Sherman and Geronimo

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'Confronting Saddam Hussein' Review: 'Bush's War,' or America's?

'Confronting Saddam Hussein' Review: 'Bush's War,' or America's?

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'The Lincoln Miracle' Review: How a Longshot Won

'The Lincoln Miracle' Review: How a Longshot Won

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More Than 50 Million Americans Are Projected to Bet on the Super Bowl

More Than 50 Million Americans Are Projected to Bet on the Super Bowl

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'The Ship Beneath the Ice' Review: Endurance Found

'The Ship Beneath the Ice' Review: Endurance Found

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'A Mystery of Mysteries' Review: Edgar Allan Poe, Through the Pale Door

'A Mystery of Mysteries' Review: Edgar Allan Poe, Through the Pale Door

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'Spillane' Review: He Nailed Mike Hammer

'Spillane' Review: He Nailed Mike Hammer

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'FDR's Gambit' Review: Playing the Numbers

'FDR's Gambit' Review: Playing the Numbers

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'Demetrius' Review: Aiming for Empire -

'Demetrius' Review: Aiming for Empire -

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'Roald Dahl' Review: Giant Writer, Not Always Friendly

'Roald Dahl' Review: Giant Writer, Not Always Friendly

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Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' Review: The Soul's Rebirth

Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' Review: The Soul's Rebirth

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'Chekhov Becomes Chekhov' Review: The Great Listener

'Chekhov Becomes Chekhov' Review: The Great Listener

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'Adam Smith's America' Review: Wealth of a Nation

'Adam Smith's America' Review: Wealth of a Nation

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'Bibi' Review: The Warrior Netanyahu

'Bibi' Review: The Warrior Netanyahu

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'The New Yorkers' Review: The Talk of the Town

'The New Yorkers' Review: The Talk of the Town

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'Fascism Comes to America' Review: It's Always Happening Here

'Fascism Comes to America' Review: It's Always Happening Here

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'Indivisible' Review: Daniel Webster's Inseparable America

'Indivisible' Review: Daniel Webster's Inseparable America

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'Arthur Miller' Review: Only Truth for Sale

'Arthur Miller' Review: Only Truth for Sale

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'Ted Kennedy' and 'Against the Wind' Review: Master of Maneuvers

'Ted Kennedy' and 'Against the Wind' Review: Master of Maneuvers

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'Norman Cousins' Review: A Man of Caution

'Norman Cousins' Review: A Man of Caution

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Politics: Timothy Shenk's 'Realigners'

Politics: Timothy Shenk's 'Realigners'

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'Blood & Ink' Review: A Crime Fit to Print

'Blood & Ink' Review: A Crime Fit to Print

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'Quit' Review: Know When to Fold 'Em

'Quit' Review: Know When to Fold 'Em

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'Giant,' a Great American Epic Film

'Giant,' a Great American Epic Film

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William Shatner Feels the Urgency and Awe of Aging

William Shatner Feels the Urgency and Awe of Aging

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'The U.S. and the Holocaust' Review: Eyes That Would Not See

'The U.S. and the Holocaust' Review: Eyes That Would Not See

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'Democratic Justice' Review: Felix Frankfurter's Double Act

'Democratic Justice' Review: Felix Frankfurter's Double Act

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'Worse Than Nothing' Review: What Originalism Is and Isn't

'Worse Than Nothing' Review: What Originalism Is and Isn't

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'Saving Freud' Review: A Reluctant Escape From Nazi Vienna

'Saving Freud' Review: A Reluctant Escape From Nazi Vienna

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'Straits' Review: Magellan Maligned

'Straits' Review: Magellan Maligned

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'America's Philosopher' Review: The Key to John Locke

'America's Philosopher' Review: The Key to John Locke

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Paul Sorvino, 'Goodfellas' and 'Law & Order' Actor, Dead At 83

Paul Sorvino, 'Goodfellas' and 'Law & Order' Actor, Dead At 83

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'Heaven Can Indeed Fall' Review: Willmoore Kendall's Conservatism

'Heaven Can Indeed Fall' Review: Willmoore Kendall's Conservatism

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'One Person, One Vote' Review: Gerrymander to Win the Game

'One Person, One Vote' Review: Gerrymander to Win the Game

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'Making "The Best Years of Our Lives" ' Review: Hollywood Homecoming

'Making "The Best Years of Our Lives" ' Review: Hollywood Homecoming

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'A Sacred Oath' Review: Keeping the Peace

'A Sacred Oath' Review: Keeping the Peace

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'The Man Who Understood Democracy' Review: Tocqueville's Dilemma

'The Man Who Understood Democracy' Review: Tocqueville's Dilemma

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'High Minds' Review: The Victorian Pursuit of Perfection

'High Minds' Review: The Victorian Pursuit of Perfection

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'True' Review: Brooklyn and Beyond

'True' Review: Brooklyn and Beyond

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Baseball Books: Golden Ages on the Diamond

Baseball Books: Golden Ages on the Diamond

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Grumbles Left and Right: Two Books on the Past and Future of Conservatism

Grumbles Left and Right: Two Books on the Past and Future of Conservatism

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'The Trials of Harry S. Truman' Review: Giving Them Hell, Getting It Too

'The Trials of Harry S. Truman' Review: Giving Them Hell, Getting It Too

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'Truly, Madly' Review: Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier's Star-Crossed Love

'Truly, Madly' Review: Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier's Star-Crossed Love

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'Jena 1800' Review: In Germany, a New Dawn of Idealism

'Jena 1800' Review: In Germany, a New Dawn of Idealism

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Jack Kerouac Found Rapture Off the Road

Jack Kerouac Found Rapture Off the Road

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'One Damn Thing After Another' Review: William Barr's Good Advice

'One Damn Thing After Another' Review: William Barr's Good Advice

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'The Turning Point' Review: A Dickens of a Year

'The Turning Point' Review: A Dickens of a Year

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'The Man From the Future' Review: The Genius of John von Neumann

'The Man From the Future' Review: The Genius of John von Neumann

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'Hell's Half-Acre' Review: Murder on the Prairie

'Hell's Half-Acre' Review: Murder on the Prairie

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'Scoundrel' Review: His Psychopathic Charm

'Scoundrel' Review: His Psychopathic Charm

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Appreciation: P.J. O'Rourke, 1947-2022

Appreciation: P.J. O'Rourke, 1947-2022

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'Campaign of the Century' Review: Revisiting Kennedy vs. Nixon

'Campaign of the Century' Review: Revisiting Kennedy vs. Nixon

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The 10 Best Books of 2021 - WSJ

The 10 Best Books of 2021 - WSJ

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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler By Rebecca Donner   |   Little, Brown Mildred Harnack, a...
'The Cause' Review: Revolutionary Answers

'The Cause' Review: Revolutionary Answers

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'The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics' Review: On Judicial Supremacy

'The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics' Review: On Judicial Supremacy

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'O. Henry: 101 Stories' Review: A Twist Comes at the End

'O. Henry: 101 Stories' Review: A Twist Comes at the End

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'Burning Man' Review: Extremely D.H. Lawrence

'Burning Man' Review: Extremely D.H. Lawrence

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Fantasy: Back to the Round Table

Fantasy: Back to the Round Table

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Politics: The Minders and Mandarins of Capitalism

Politics: The Minders and Mandarins of Capitalism

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'Everything Now' Review: California Dreaming

'Everything Now' Review: California Dreaming

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'The Ambassador' Review: Joseph Kennedy's Diplomatic Disaster

'The Ambassador' Review: Joseph Kennedy's Diplomatic Disaster

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'An American Marriage' Review: House Divided - WSJ

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'The Aristocracy of Talent' Review: Getting Ahead, Falling Behind

'The Aristocracy of Talent' Review: Getting Ahead, Falling Behind

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'Fears of a Setting Sun' Review: Factions at America's Founding

'Fears of a Setting Sun' Review: Factions at America's Founding

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'The Words That Made Us' Review: Constitutionally Speaking

'The Words That Made Us' Review: Constitutionally Speaking

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Politics: Nationalism, Then and Now

Politics: Nationalism, Then and Now

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'The Reason for the Darkness of the Night' Review: Poe's Eureka Moment

'The Reason for the Darkness of the Night' Review: Poe's Eureka Moment

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'I Got the Horse Right Here' Review: Racing With Runyon

'I Got the Horse Right Here' Review: Racing With Runyon

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'The Columnist' Review: Master of the Merry-Go-Round

'The Columnist' Review: Master of the Merry-Go-Round

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'War on the Border' Review: The Pursuit of Pancho Villa

'War on the Border' Review: The Pursuit of Pancho Villa

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'Chaos Under Heaven' Review: How to Ride a Wild Dragon

'Chaos Under Heaven' Review: How to Ride a Wild Dragon

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Politics: Stories vs. Resumes

Politics: Stories vs. Resumes

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'Lincoln in Private' Review: Confidential Ruminations

'Lincoln in Private' Review: Confidential Ruminations

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'Peace, Poverty and Betrayal' Review: To Oblige and Rule

'Peace, Poverty and Betrayal' Review: To Oblige and Rule

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'Nuclear Folly' Review: The Big Red Gamble

'Nuclear Folly' Review: The Big Red Gamble

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'On the House' Review: John Boehner Remembers

'On the House' Review: John Boehner Remembers

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'The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock' Review: Dial M for Multiple

'The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock' Review: Dial M for Multiple

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'Rock Me on the Water' Review: Something New Came Along

'Rock Me on the Water' Review: Something New Came Along

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'Lady Bird Johnson' Review: Behind the Smile

'Lady Bird Johnson' Review: Behind the Smile

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'Thaddeus Stevens' Review: Back in the American Pantheon

'Thaddeus Stevens' Review: Back in the American Pantheon

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'Bugsy Siegel' Review: A Slickly Lethal Gangster

'Bugsy Siegel' Review: A Slickly Lethal Gangster

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'The Hidden History of Coined Words' Review: Saying It Another Way

'The Hidden History of Coined Words' Review: Saying It Another Way

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'A Worse Place Than Hell' Review: The Crucible

'A Worse Place Than Hell' Review: The Crucible

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'Kill Switch' Review: When 51 Votes Aren't Enough

'Kill Switch' Review: When 51 Votes Aren't Enough

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'Dostoevsky in Love' Review: Possessed by Words

'Dostoevsky in Love' Review: Possessed by Words

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'Despised' Review: The Left and the Working Class

'Despised' Review: The Left and the Working Class

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'The Last Shah' Review: A Purely Domestic Conspiracy

'The Last Shah' Review: A Purely Domestic Conspiracy

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'The Patriots' Review: Founders Divided

'The Patriots' Review: Founders Divided

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'Wintering' Review: Rest, Retreat and Renewa

'Wintering' Review: Rest, Retreat and Renewa

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'Friends and Enemies' Review: Making Her Own Black List

'Friends and Enemies' Review: Making Her Own Black List

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Conservatism and Liberalism: Two Books on the Great Divide

Conservatism and Liberalism: Two Books on the Great Divide

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'The National Baseball Hall of Fame Collection' Review: A Choice of Players

'The National Baseball Hall of Fame Collection' Review: A Choice of Players

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'American Catholic' Review: Doctrine and Democracy

'American Catholic' Review: Doctrine and Democracy

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'Operation Moonglow' Review: The Rockets' Red Scare

'Operation Moonglow' Review: The Rockets' Red Scare

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Around 1 a.m. Moscow time on Oct. 5, 1957, receiving stations around the globe began picking up demure new radio signals from space—“beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep . . .” They came from a...
'I Marched With Patton' Review: From a Soldier's Point of View

'I Marched With Patton' Review: From a Soldier's Point of View

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'Garner's Quotations' Review: Uncommon Knowledge

'Garner's Quotations' Review: Uncommon Knowledge

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Do you have an Everything Bucket? A place, that is, where you record witticisms, recipes, half-digested thoughts, absurd remarks you’ve overheard and luminous fragments of verse. Maybe you use an...
'First Principles' Review: Classically Constituted

'First Principles' Review: Classically Constituted

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The subject of Thomas Ricks’s extraordinarily timely book is, in his words, “what our first four presidents learned, where they learned it, who they learned it from, and what they did with that...
Politics: The Presidential Pen

Politics: The Presidential Pen

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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...
'Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise' Review: The Enigma of Charisma

'Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise' Review: The Enigma of Charisma

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H.L. Mencken was doubtful that Shakespeare wrote the plays assigned to him because there is substantial evidence that he acted in them, which is an amusing way of saying that actors are not...
'China's Good War' Review: Present at the Creation

'China's Good War' Review: Present at the Creation

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When I arrived in Tokyo in the late 1990s for a five-year stint as a correspondent, one of my biggest surprises was the near total absence in Northeast Asia of international organizations that...
'The Luckiest Man' Review: Remembering a Maverick

'The Luckiest Man' Review: Remembering a Maverick

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The late John McCain’s paternal line was touched by a kind of tragic greatness. The senator’s grandfather, “Slew” McCain, a brilliant and courageous admiral in the Pacific during World War II,...
'The Essential Scalia' Review: What RBG Admired

'The Essential Scalia' Review: What RBG Admired

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In the days since her passing, much has been said about the cross-aisle friendship between Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away four years and one presidential...
Why 'The Sun Also Rises' Is an Oddly Comforting Read Right Now

Why 'The Sun Also Rises' Is an Oddly Comforting Read Right Now

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FEW NOVELS evoke our current mix of frustrated wanderlust and existential crisis quite like those of Ernest Hemingway. He chronicled the “lost generation” that had come of age against the chaotic...
'The Last Million' Review: The Point of No Return

'The Last Million' Review: The Point of No Return

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Barely two months before the opening of the Nuremberg trials, British prime minister Clement Attlee wrote to President Truman about the “displaced persons”—the DPs—of numerous nationalities...
'The Zealot and the Emancipator' Review: A Deadly Confrontation -

'The Zealot and the Emancipator' Review: A Deadly Confrontation -

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‘How does a good man challenge a great evil?” Fittingly, H.W. Brands asks this question at the outset of “The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American...
Political Books: After the Culture War

Political Books: After the Culture War

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The American left dominates nearly every major institution in the country, and yet Donald Trump’s presidency continues to inspire progressives with a revanchist zeal. Tacit and sometimes explicit...
'Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck' Review: The Poison Cup of Gold - WSJ

'Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck' Review: The Poison Cup of Gold - WSJ

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In 1937, John Steinbeck began to be disturbed by unannounced visitors at the small cottage north of Monterey that he shared with his wife Carol. Steinbeck had just published “Of Mice and Men,”...
'The Jefferson Bible' Review: The Gospel, Sans Miracles

'The Jefferson Bible' Review: The Gospel, Sans Miracles

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However else he is known, Thomas Jefferson ought to be remembered as the great American prophet, the founder of a new nation and apostle of its faith. In “The Life and Morals of Jesus of...
'The Man Who Ran Washington' Review: Invisible Touch

'The Man Who Ran Washington' Review: Invisible Touch

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A first-term White House chief of staff faces three great tasks: avoid scandal, get the president re-elected and leave without getting fired. It is remarkable how few chiefs of staff, over the...
'The Daughters of Yalta' Review: Big Three, Little Three

'The Daughters of Yalta' Review: Big Three, Little Three

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Much has been written about the historic Yalta Conference in February 1945, when Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt met to decide the future of the postwar world. Little, however, is known about the...
'Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times' Review: Unruly Genius

'Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times' Review: Unruly Genius

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Some 16,000 books have been written about Abraham Lincoln—more than any other historical figure except Jesus. But there has never been one like this one by David S. Reynolds. The author, a...
'The Bloody Flag' Review: Seas of Unrest

'The Bloody Flag' Review: Seas of Unrest

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The 1789 mutiny aboard the Bounty in the course of its scientific expedition in the South Pacific remains the most famous maritime uprising of its era, and perhaps of all time. But in “The Bloody...
'JFK' Review: The Road to Camelot

'JFK' Review: The Road to Camelot

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John F. Kennedy poses a problem for historians and chroniclers of American politics. He was a man of good looks, unquestioned charm and public eloquence. He was the Harvard-educated son of a...
Review of Bob Woodward's 'Rage': On the Record, Such as It Is

Review of Bob Woodward's 'Rage': On the Record, Such as It Is

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Most readers of this review will already know the big news item issuing from “Rage,” Bob Woodward’s second account of the Trump White House. On Feb. 7 of this year the president told Mr....
'Wagnerism: Art & Politics in the Shadow of Music' Review: The Outsider

'Wagnerism: Art & Politics in the Shadow of Music' Review: The Outsider

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Great works of art are so powerfully imagined that their intent and expression mold to changing human circumstances. But the operas of Richard Wagner are arguably unique in this regard: No other...

'The Last Brahmin' Review: Why Was He in Vietnam? - WSJ

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'Bundini' Review: The Trickster in His Corner

'Bundini' Review: The Trickster in His Corner

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'Three Rings' Review: Getting Lost (and Found) with Odysseus

'Three Rings' Review: Getting Lost (and Found) with Odysseus

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The ‘Odyssey’ of Homer is the Big Bang of Western literature, having sparked centuries of sequels, imitations, adaptations and commentaries. Every era has recognized its own upheavals in these...
'Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy' Review: Tradition, Yes, and Markets Too - WSJ

'Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy' Review: Tradition, Yes, and Markets Too - WSJ

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Prudence was the watchword of Edmund Burke, the great 18th-century Irish statesman, except where his own money was concerned. The West’s founding conservative lived his financial life on the edge...
'Twilight of the Gods' Review: A Blood-Soaked Peace

'Twilight of the Gods' Review: A Blood-Soaked Peace

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A tale-telling axiom holds that complex narratives—whether from a writer’s quill, the pulpit or a Hollywood storyboard—are best broken into threes. From Sophocles to Coppola, the trilogy has...
'Levon' Review: The Beating Heart of the Band

'Levon' Review: The Beating Heart of the Band

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'The Cult of Smart' Review: Social Justice Goes to School

'The Cult of Smart' Review: Social Justice Goes to School

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'History Has Begun' Review: The American Century to Come

'History Has Begun' Review: The American Century to Come

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'The Gaming Mind' Review: Games Therapists Play

'The Gaming Mind' Review: Games Therapists Play

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'Leave It as It Is' Review: 'Man Can Only Mar It'

'Leave It as It Is' Review: 'Man Can Only Mar It'

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Children's Books: A Vampire Tells His Side of the Story - WSJ

Children's Books: A Vampire Tells His Side of the Story - WSJ

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'Countdown 1945' Review: Checkmate in the Pacific

'Countdown 1945' Review: Checkmate in the Pacific

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'Life of a Klansman' Review: A Hood in the Closet

'Life of a Klansman' Review: A Hood in the Closet

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'Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher' Review: An Untouchable Second Act - WSJ

'Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher' Review: An Untouchable Second Act - WSJ

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Moviegoers of a certain age will remember Eliot Ness—the upright law-enforcement figure who battled corruption and organized crime from the 1920s to the ’40s—as portrayed by a tough-talking Kevin...