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Padding the Résumé HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton By Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes (Crown, 448 pages, $26) Reviewed by John R. Coyne, Jr. Groundhog day, all over again,...

Portrait of a Lady (January 2014)

Portrait of a Lady Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality By Jonathan Aitken (Bloomsbury, 764 pages, $35) Reviewed by John R. Coyne, Jr. In his splendid Nixon: A Life (1993), the book many...

The Great American Novel (December 2013)

The Great American Novel Norman Mailer: A Double Life By J. Michael Lennon (Simon & Schuster, 948 pages, $40) reviewed by john 'bjcoyne, jr. This thick block of a book is packed with facts,...

The Texas Way: An Alternative Model (July 2013)

The Texas Way: An Alternative Model Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas By Erica Grieder (Public Affairs, 304 pages, $26.99) Reviewed by John...

Ailes: A Voice for the Silent Majority (May 2013)

Ailes: A Voice for the Silent Majority Roger Ailes: Off Camera By Zev Chafets (Sentinel, 258 pages, $26.95) Reviewed by John R. Coyne, Jr. During the last campaign, there was a widely...

Tangles Of Pathologies (April 2013)

Tangles of Pathologies The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America By James T. Patterson (Basic Books, 310 pages, $28.99) Reviewed by John R. Coyne, Jr. If youâ€™ve followed the dreary...

An Enduring Partnership (March 2013)

BOOKS IN REVIEW An Enduring Partnership Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage By Jeffrey Frank (SlMON & Schuster, 434 PAGES, $30) Reviewed by John R. Coyne, Jr. Damn,” was the...

Spies, Traitors, Agents of Influence, and Useful Idiots (February 2013)

Spies, Traitors, Agents of Influence, and Useful Idiots Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government By M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein (Threshold Editions, 294...

On Knowing When to Shut Up (December 2012)

BOOKS IN REVIEW On Knowing When to Shut Up This Living Hand: And Other Essays By Edmund Morris (Random House, 500 pages, $32) Reviewed by John R. Coyne, Jr. In a piece appearing in TAS in...

Inflamed Literary Imaginations (July 2012)

BOOKS IN REVIEW Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love By David Talbot (Free Press, 452 pages, $28) Reviewed by John R. Coyne, Jr. Inflamed Literary...

Rating the Presidents and Their Raters (June 2012)

BOOKS IN REVIEW Rating the Presidents and Their Raters Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians By Robert W. Merry (Simon & Schuster, 320 pages,...

All in the Family (May 2012)

Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln By Jason Emerson (Southern Illinois University Press, 752 pages, $39.95) Reviewed by John R. Coyne, Jr. All in the Family Robert Todd Lincoln...

THE WAY WE LIVE NOW (March 2012)

The Way We Live Now First impressions: A small book, hard cover but quality paperback size, with bibliographic apparatus stretching it out to just beyond 200 pages, packaged in a pink dust...

CRIME, PUNISHMENT, AND POLITICS (December 2011)

Crime, Punishment, and Politics Strange, how little real discussion there has been of foreign policy in the current presidential campaign. Four years ago, with George W. Bush still in office,...

The Cliff Dwellers Spectator / Endangered Species (March 1995)

Endangered Species Chicago J n his splendid Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher (1979), Henry Regnery spoke of the often tense relationship between Chicago's culture and commerce, between the...

Fall in and Cheer (April 1979)

BOOK REVIEW Fall in and Cheer John R.Coyne, Jr. / Doublcday /. $8.95 R.Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. In America today there is a clutch of writers whose metier is a hybrid of reportage and fiction and...

A Mole's Eye View of the Ford White House (December 1978)

A Mole's Eye View of the...

Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (March 1977)

First Amendment. With respect to the particular Court decisions he singles out for discussion in this book, his criticisms also seems to me, in almost every instance, quite well taken. But one...

Charlie (November 1976)

Dalton Trumbo, after years of blacklisting, was finally unleashed to realize his epic allegory (Johnny Got His Gun) and brought forth an outdated molehill. The director. As I said, we are...

The Great American Saloon Series (October 1976)

THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES as R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. f Karl O'Lessker I John R. Coyne, Jr. A Symposium on Beers The "Confessions of a Beer Snob, " by Aram Bakshian, Jr., published in our...

Execution Eve: And Other Contemporary Ballads (February 1976)

Book Review/John R. Coyne, Jr. For God, for -Country & for Peanut Butter • Most of the columns and articles reprinted here were written between 1972 and 1975, three years which seemed several...

The Great American Saloon Series (June 1974)

defense output and]or advertising expenditures. The remaining forty finns were choson randomly. Measurements were made for each firm to determine the degree to which it was...

Inveighing We Will Go (May 1973)

Book Review Inveighing We Will Go by William F. Buckley, Jr. Putnam, $7.95 You get to wondering though, whether, in the old phrase, you're playing horse to other people's Lady Godiva."' Bill...

The Voice We'll Always Hear (June 1972)

West. Calm, firm, with ultimate courage, they stood against the Persian host -- and won though they lost. "Our situation is no more desperate, our enemies no more powerful, than the situations...

Centrist Nixon, Centrist Nation (May 1972)

competRion within particol~r industries. In that case Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes observed for a unanimous Court: "Extraordinary conditions do not create or enlarge constitutional power...

The Public Penitent (October 1971)

"The Public Penitent" From California: Dear Senator: I wish to thank you for giving me the first feeling of pride in being an American that I hove experienced in some...

Islands in the Stream (May 1971)

Isn't it Pretty to Think So? Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway Scribners, $10.00 Critical fops like Christopher Ricks (in the New York Review of Books) had prepared me for a bad book, and...

Berkeley, New Left and Dogs (January 1971)

4 The Alternative January, 1971 Berkeley, the New Left and Dogs By John R. Caym, Jr. John R. Coyne, Jr. is the author of The Kumquat Statement (see Avey's review on page 14) from which the...

Vermillion, South Dakota (December 1970)

Delectations Vermillion (with two ll's), South Dakota John R. Coyne, Jr. South Dakota calls itself "the land of infinite variety," and no place in the state better epitomizes this variousness...

AND THE NIGHT LORD JOHN CLEANED OUT McSORLEY'S (November 1970)

Ale, Cheese, Onions, Women And the Night Lord John Cleaned Out McSorley's John R. Coyne, Jr. "John Coyne, at his usual post guarding the door, spotted the women heading for the place and quickly...

JACK KEROUAC, RIP (February 1970)

dedicated to the memory of Ho, could we not still come out ahead in Vietnam? It would be a showcase of documented Communist aggression for all the world to see. The only problem here would be...

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