Books for Christmas
OKS RISTMAS Our annual list of holiday gift suggestions from distinguished readers and writers, GEORGE ALLEN Thomas Jefferson, Writings, edited by Merrill D. Peterson. I have given hundreds of...
...He had an uncanny ability to understand the personality and behavior of a great variety of characters, young and old, male and female...
...Years ago, I bought the 1972 edition, which was almost 2,000 pages...
...Justices 6 Presidents is Henry J. Abraham's classic history of appointments to the Supreme Court...
...JEB BUSH 1. All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings — A wonderful insight into the most decent, honorable man in public life I know...
...Walter Olson is senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, author of The Excuse Factory and The Litigation Explosion, and editor of Overlawyered.com...
...O'Rourke, in Eat the Rich, offers his incisive insights cloaked with wit, to the age-old question: "Why do some places prosper and thrive while others just suck...
...The title explains why...
...Which brings me to Shattan's Architects ofVictory: Six Heroes ofthe Cold War...
...It turns out that old Harry, and not FDR, was the first truly modern president, for good or ill...
...The operation was an effort to pull German divisions from the battle at Stalingrad but led to a disaster with over 300,000 Soviet casualties...
...Randolph became a spoiled brat and an impossible human being...
...Commodore Aubrey in the man-o-war Surprise must deal with a French plot employing the Assassin fraternity of European Turkey to prevent the Russian army from joining up with Wellington in the low countries...
...An excellent book for Madisonian enthusiasts...
...During the next presidential term, we're likely to see two or three vacancies on the Court and thus some new installments in this ongoing story...
...Hoping to embrace his roots, he wound up feeling thankful to be an American...
...Conservatives ignored it because they have little affection for Marshall...
...Of course, it's exactly the other way around: Soviet history was a dismal chamber of horrors, while American history is a tale filled with hope and high adventure...
...Now in Shadow we have still more evidence of the Clintons' dispendious wrath...
...Not even our tabloidesque, Monica-obsessed period can match the mudslinging, scandal-mongering politics of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century America...
...The most recent edition (so thick I could barely get my hand, which easily palms a basketball, around it) came out early in the 1990's, so there's probably another one in the works...
...GEORGE MELLOAN I confess to being a member of a cult, the Patrick O'Brian cult...
...of state acts held unconstitutional (many more of the latter than the former, itself a story...
...Elsewhere in this issue of TAS, I sing George Weigel's praises at some length...
...Whenever I finish one of his novels, I regret losing touch with individuals who had come truly to matter to me...
...Ledeen's section on luck in history is particularly arresting, though I suspect most readers will be more impressed by the author's reflections on how the great figures of our time, such as Lady Thatcher, President Ronald Reagan, and Michael Jordan, measure up to Machiavelli's standards...
...Donald J. Boudreaux is president of the Foundation for Economic Education...
...A History of the American People, by Paul Johnson...
...Another favorite, for new parents, is "The Rights of Families...
...Trump does not think it appropriate for him to give you a quote praising his own work...
...FRED BARNES When I visited Kenya last summer, my friend Sam Owen shoved two books my way, and I'm glad he did...
...Barbara Olson, writing in a more reproachful voice than Woodward's and a more analytic mentality, places the least amusing of (Continued on page 93) 50 December 19 9 9 /January 2000 • The American Spectator Christmas Books (Continued from page 50) the Clintons in the formaldehyde of biography for contemporary and future generations to study...
...NADINE STROSSEN My submissions are not hypothetical, since I regularly give books as gifts all year 'round, and for that purpose keep on hand plenty of extra copies of the ones listed here...
...But he was a Churchill—which means he was enormously gifted and larger-than-life...
...Much of what is popularly known about the trial is myth...
...the average American worker in 1984 had to work 456 hours to purchase a cell phone, while today he must work only nine hours...
...Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer by C S. Lewis...
...Sorley says victory was won, not prevented by politicians in Washington, as some conservatives believe...
...46 December 1999 / January 2000 • The American Spectator College freshmen coming home at Christmas may display not only superficial piercings but pierced souls...
...Even Clintonistas such as Harold Ickes belabored lesser colleagues...
...These figures are then compared with the amount of time that the average American worker in times past had to work to acquire the same or similar goods or services...
...The American Spectator December r 999 /January 2000 93...
...Suffice it to say here that this is a great book about a great man —and, of course, the ideal Christmas gift...
...What happened once might happen again, if enough pirates move offshore...
...Speaking of magic, follow the adventures of Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn of the Navaho tribal police...
...Reading it is like getting a jolt of electricity...
...Joseph Shattan is the author of Architects of Victory: Six Heroes of the Cold War (Heritage Foundation...
...Give this readable book to any friend who parrots the falsehood that capitalism isn't good for ordinary men and women...
...He is scrupulously fair to the contending sides, and their arguments, and the book is wonderfully written...
...You bet...
...Poor Americans today are in many ways wealthier than were middle class Americans of a quarter-century ago...
...Richard Pipes is Baird research professor of history at Harvard University and the author most recently of Property and Freedom (Knopf...
...Perhaps the Democrats are different from you and me...
...Nobody conveys that sense of adventure better than Paul Johnson, and his book, like all the others I've mentioned, is a tonic for the spirit and an antidote to despair...
...RE: DONALD TRUMP Dear Mr...
...Creighton Abrams crushed the Vietcong, pushed the North Vietnamese to the fringes, and recaptured most of South Vietnam...
...His book on the First Amendment's speech and press clauses will be published in the spring...
...But victory was thrown away through a peace settlement that let North Vietnamese troops stay in the South, and through the removal of American aid...
...The Book of Hopes and Dreams for Girls and Young Women: Notable Women Share Their Experiences and Wisdom, edited by Christine Aulicino and JoAnn Deak, Ph.D...
...The Courage of Their Convictions, by Peter Irons (Penguin, 1990...
...Nadine Strossen is professor of law at New York Law School and president of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...Olson recognizes the radicalism of HRC's college days as something more bitter than mere bohemian dalliance...
...Machiavelli handed down sensible rules of character based on his observation of leaders in everyday life and based on his vast knowledge of history and philosophy...
...Francis Schaeffer's three books The God Who Is There, Escape from Reason, and He Is There and He Is Not Silent, available in one volume entitled Trilogy (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway Books, 1990), show how and why modern thought has abandoned the idea of truth, with tragic consequences in politics and every aspect of culture...
...19, The Hundred Days, and will go on to the latest, Blue at the Mizzen, after that...
...Trump for a book that he thinks would make an ideal holiday gift...
...R. EMMETT TYRRELL, J R. There is some very flavorous stuff in Bob Woodward's Shadow, particularly about the Clinton White House...
...It even comes with a handy workbook for churches and other groups...
...In the back are three quite useful lists: of federal acts held unconstitutional...
...I have given hundreds of copies of this tremendous collection of Thomas Jefferson's autobiographical notes, Virginia historical commentary, letters, and addresses...
...Although there are a great many books and authors that Mr...
...I know this title will suggest homework, but for anyone interested in the Constitution, law, political science, or American history, or America, for that matter, the Annotated Constitution—the shorthand title for this book—is one you can't do without...
...ACLU Handbooks on "The Rights of . .." (Carbondale and Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press...
...She concludes with a plea for simplifying our tax structure...
...Frank Keating is governor of Oklahoma...
...I'm reading No...
...A resolute band of statesmen and writers joined by one most impressive cleric held the democracies together in defiance of Soviet Communism and won...
...Marvin Olasky is a senior fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study ofReligion and Liberty and the editor of World...
...George Melloan is a columnist and deputy editor international ofthe Wall Street Journal...
...Once dismissed as a minor story teller, Trollope has emerged as one of the foremost novelists of the nineteenth century...
...Every few pages of this book's sections on the Clintons explodes with rudeness and diatribes that are as memorable as they are ignoble...
...Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II, by George Weigel...
...Her book reminds us that the would-be Senate candidate has a few hurdles to leap before she can arrive in the Senate or even remain at large...
...For example, the average American worker in 1970 had to work 71 minutes to purchase a large pepperoni pizza, while today he must work only 5o minutes...
...2. Peter Lamborn Wilson, Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs and European Renegadoes (New York: Autonomedia: 1995...
...This inspiring book conveys the stories of sixteen diverse Americans —from a cross-section of backgrounds, beliefs, and occupations —who dared to stand up for their own rights and therefore for those of everyone in this country, by fighting their cases all the way to the U.S...
...Unlike our era, this one also saw statesmanship and high-principled public debate of a grandeur and significance never equaled since...
...2. The Future and its Enemies, by Virginia Postrel —An eloquent exposition of the clash of dynamism and its natural statist and reactionary enemies...
...His memoir, Rogue Ambassador, is a great read...
...To explore Man on a Personal and Spiritual Journey, Radical Son by David Horowitz...
...It is a colorful collection of writings and drawings by female students of all ages at the Laurel School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, along with reflections and advice from women who have made their mark in a wide variety of fields, all thoughtfully and creatively interwoven into a delightful tapestry by two of the School's Directors...
...As an illustration of the Unchanging Nature of Man, you can't beat William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire, a brilliant history of Europe bursting into the Renaissance and the Age of Exploration...
...It takes Merlin of the Arthur legend from mystical youth to mythical old age, and is a silky, pleasurable read...
...FRANK KEATING I would build my suggested list around a theme —the nature of Man...
...For Man as Leader, David McCullough's wonderful Truman...
...TERRY EASTLAND Summer for the Gods, which treats the Scopes trial of 1925, came out in 1997 but I didn't read it until this past year...
...Madison, by Jack Rakove (The Library of America...
...Hemp-stone, a newspaperman and columnist, openly criticized the corrupt regime of President Daniel arap Moi and promoted democracy...
...A "ghost walker" has been spotted near the scene of the crime...
...In The Hundred Days, Napoleon has escaped from Elba and is rallying troops and vessels for another go at the English...
...Sir Patrick peppers his books with arcana of the windjammer age, not insulting readers with tedious explanations of what is meant by "stood on" or "abaft the beam...
...Likewise for almost all goods and services...
...RICHARD PIPES Any and every novel by Anthony Trollope in either the Barset or Palliser series...
...For everyone on your list, there is at least one book in this wide-ranging series that should be of particular interest...
...Finally, to explore Man the Creator, any anthology of great poetry, or perhaps Maynard Solomon's fine biography of Beethoven...
...That's zo books...
...Loyal acolytes, of which I am told there are thousands, have followed Jack Aubrey's career from Royal Navy midshipman to his present rank of rear admiral of the Blue...
...Not exactly a cheery Christmas gift but an essential book to convey the truth that Communism was anything but a noble experiment...
...Rounding out my holiday book list: Joan Kennedy Taylor's What to Do When You Don't Want to Call the Cops: A Non-Adversarial Approach to Sexual Harassment (NYU Press/Cato...
...Jack Rakove is one of the nation's leading Madisonian experts...
...Jeb Bush is governor of Florida...
...As aresult, Winston decided to be a pal to his son, Randolph—treating him like a grown-up when he was just a kid...
...DONALD J. BOUDREAUX Are ordinary Americans wealthier today than in the past...
...While all these books are outstanding in various ways, they also are not well known in most circles, so recipients are unlikely to have them—a great combination, in my experience...
...At 96o pages (not including index), it's a long read, but it's also the best book of the year...
...As everyone knows, Lord Randolph Churchill was a terrible Dad who treated his son, Winston, like dirt...
...The thesis: Utopians, using such terms as "justice" and "equality" as shields, have waged a not-so-quiet war on liberty and common sense...
...He had an enormous impact for good...
...and my Manhattan Institute colleague David Frum's book on America since the 1970's, How We Got Here (Basic...
...Tyrrell: Thank you for your letter requesting a recommendation from Mr...
...It also provides a timeless reference for today's leaders and for those of us who work to keep "common-sense jeffersonian conservatism" alive and flourishing for the people of America and the world...
...Olson plots the bitterness as it moves from Yale Law School, to Arkansas, and thence to the White House...
...These are all very good books for Christmas or any occasion...
...Is it because the intelligentsia did not acquit themselves all that well in the Cold War...
...One reason for the increasing poundage (shall I say tonnage) of this book is, alas, our litigious character: The more cases the Court decides, the more cases this book has to include...
...R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...I can think of no White House in American history wherein the staff was treated so appallingly as the Clinton White House...
...2. Stephane Courtois and others, The Black Book of Communism (Harvard University Press, 1999...
...This is a beautiful permanent calendar that highlights, through photographs and text, historical and cultural events of particular interest to women...
...Every one of his targets is still with us today, but part of a proper humility is learning how hard it is for us to win these arguments permanently...
...He, as usual, doesn't get the girl, but he does get the killer...
...This is a collection of the writings of James Madison, the genius who shaped our governmental system...
...A great gift for all the historians, females, and feminists on your list—and also a way to ensure that they have a permanent record of special occasions that recur each year, such as your own birthday...
...This brand-new book is a great gift for girls and young women—and their parents...
...Richburg, who is black, was the Washington Post correspondent in Africa in the mid-199o's...
...For Man Enduring, The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, early and always my personal favorite bit of literature...
...It is impossible to write an authoritative biography of someone who is still alive—Edmund Morris proved that—but George Weigel has come as close as humanly possible...
...The Quest for Cosmic Justice, by Thomas Sowell (Free Press...
...Abraham, one of our most readable The American Spectator • December 1999/ January 2000 students of the Court, ably treats the selection, nomination, and appointment of each Justice (as well as the selection and nomination of those who did not win Senate approval...
...Trump would like to recommend his own book, The America We Deserve, which will hit the bookstores in early December...
...A female "vector analyst" searching for the sources of a plague outbreak on the reservation is missing and a policeman has been killed...
...His treatment of White House Counsel Abner Mikva is a kind of world record...
...For years, we have been reporting in The American Spectator that the Clintons treated their associates with about the same courtesy that Stalin showed Molotov, though Stalin had a better sense of humor...
...Teny Eastland is publisher and president ofThe American Spectator...
...Shaker Heights, Ohio: Laurel School, 1999...
...Witness to Hope artfully combines biography and theology...
...Tony Snow is host of "Fox News Sunday" and a nationally syndicated columnist...
...The authors calculate the amount of time that today's average American worker must work to purchase various goods and services...
...Fred Barnes is executive editor of the Weekly Standard...
...Ledeen really finds the author of The Prince to be a very lovable guy, and certainly a wise fellow...
...Capitalism's blessings are indeed vast—and, as Cox and Alm also show, they are bestowed even on poor Americans...
...The main difference is that Sowell can actually write such books—and most of us can't...
...I can see why...
...Trump thinks highly of, without sounding too immodest, Mr...
...While in 1971 only 31.8 percent of all American households were air-conditioned, today the percentage of poor households that are air-conditioned is nearly 5o percent...
...However, for obvious reasons, Mr...
...And that they showered it down on such deserving receptacles as George Stephanopoulos and each of their sorely pressed White House counsels does not exonerate them...
...These are two important (and very readable) books...
...Jonathan Turley is Shapiro Professor ofPublic Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C...
...I hope you will understand...
...see (or rather, don't see) the 1960 film Inherit the Wind...
...is editor-in-chief of The American Spectator...
...Steve Forbes is a candidate for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination...
...TONY SNOW Witness to Hope: The Biography ofPope John Paul II, by George Weigel (Cliff Street Books/HarperCollins...
...This biography of Winston Churchill's son, written by Churchill's grandson, is beautifully written and enormously entertaining...
...Based on my extensive experience in giving this book away, I can attest that it has been enthusiastically received by a wide range of recipients, from high school students through Supreme Court Justices...
...Save his great history of England for later and start in with his essays, especially those where he goes into demolition mode against romanticizers of pre-industrial life (Southey's Colloquies), ideologues caught up in their own abstractions {James Mill on Government), apologists for intolerance (Civil Disabilities of the Jews), trade protectionists (Speech on the Sugar Duties), those who'd infer scientific truth from religious revelation (Sadler on Population), and bad writers generally (Montgomery's poems...
...P.J...
...It is impressively exhaustive and astonishingly accessible...
...I particularly recommend The Oak and the Calf to people who are feeling tired, depressed, or sorry for themselves...
...This is a government-sponsored book, but don't think government can't do good work...
...Stewart Brand, The Clock of the Long Now (Basic...
...The Abolition of Man...
...I was ready to denounce the absence of revisionism —and then The Necessary War by Michael Lind and A Better War by Lewis Sorley came to my attention...
...It won the Pulitzer Prize in history...
...In readable, questionand-answer format, these books outline the rights of everyone from "A" ("Authors, Artists, and other Creative People") to, well, "W" ("Women...
...I put Shadow down, the Clintons' curses ringing in my ears, and marvelled that their fellow Democrats would endure so much from such scamps...
...J. Budziszewski's How to Stay Christian in College (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 1999) provides good advice on "Holding your own without being a jerk" and "Dealing with hostile teachers...
...Each book is written by experts in the field, but they are all addressed to a broad general audience...
...Her insight into HRC is sound, but she brings more than insight and reportage to her book...
...Shattan tells of their great deeds with high scholarship and style...
...His hopes for a life with the beautiful Janet Pete, who has gone over to the white man's world to become a Washington lawyer, remain frustrated by his psychological inability to follow her across that same bridge and her equal unwillingness to return to the Navaho way...
...This same happy pattern is true for washers and dryers, dishwashers, refrigerators, stoves, microwave ovens, color televisions, and a host of other household items...
...and of Supreme Court decisions the Court itself has overruled (yes, as Lincoln once said, a Supreme Court decision is not a "thus sayeth the Lord...
...Is it because the Soviet archives and Western archives are now revealing that one of the intelligentsia's favorite bugaboos was nonsense...
...There is no better tonic to Clinton fatigue than some rousing Christian apologetics, and no better source for apologetics than converts with attitudes...
...Stunningly illustrated, serendipitously written, a book that makes us ask why we are not photographed at work...
...It is the first to expose fully the devastations that Communist regimes have inflicted on every country in which they seized power...
...Supreme Court...
...The answer, of course, is that some countries embrace the free market culture and others don't...
...Particularly useful: analysis of some of the honeyed lines students will hear, such as "The important thing in life isn't having truth, but searching for it," or "Faith and politics should be separate...
...Over the past year, I've waded through book after book on the Vietnam war, looking for a hint of revisionism among his-torians and journalists...
...For example, I love tweaking my Boomer contemporaries who are celebrating their fiftieth birthdays by giving them our handbook on "The Rights of Older Persons...
...WALTER OLSON The Web having kicked off a golden age for used books, now's the time to catch up with classical liberalism's most thrilling writer, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), whose bicentenary is apt to get lost amid millennium hoopla...
...The pacification campaign run by Gen...
...Prepare for these by reading Justices 6 Presidents...
...Chesterton...
...ambassador to Kenya during the Bush administration...
...The first edition, published in 1913, was little more than loo pages long...
...His Father's Son: The Life of Randolph Churchill, by Winston S. Churchill...
...A Woman's Book of Days, by Beverly Wettenstein (Crown, 1994...
...One of the books he recommended, Out of America by Keith Richburg, has been praised by many conservatives...
...Ledeen's Machiavelli on Modern Leadership presents Machiavelli with a human face, I like to think...
...Of all Solzhenitsyn's books, this memoir of his ten-year battle to outwit the Soviet authorities and get his works published is my favorite...
...Half an hour with Solzhenitsyn, and they'll be ready to take on the world...
...JOHN R. STILGOE 1. W. H. Bunting, A Day's Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs, 1860 to 1920 (Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House, 1997...
...He has a knack for writing books that make one say, "I wish I had written that...
...For history buffs, it is a fantastic insight into a long suppressed part of World War II history...
...A great companion, The Greedy Hand by Wall Street Journal editorial writer Amity Shlaes, brilliantly dissects the federal income tax code, the IRS, and a slew of other exactions...
...RHONA GRAFF-RICCIO Executive Assistant, The Trump Organization JONATHAN TURLEY Zhukov's Greatest Defeat, by David M. Glantz (University Press of Kansas...
...Alexander Hamilton, American, by Richard Brookhiser, discusses the Founder who brilliantly understood the elevating role commerce should play in our new Republic...
...That's all it took to present the text of the Constitution and its amendments, and to annotate the provisions with case citations...
...Yet nobody seemed willing to take a fresh look at whether America should indeed have intervened militarily or whether the war might, in fact, have gone better than we've been led to believe...
...Nat Hentoff is a nationally syndicated columnist...
...These books cast a spell, making magic seem far more plausible than, say, the beguilements of a White House press spokesman...
...Lind argues that in the context of the Cold War, American intervention was unavoidable, and that, if fought differently, ' the war might have been won...
...Almost all goods and services are available today for far less work time than it took to acquire these things at any time in the past...
...Limiting myself to three books, I end with a big one: The Constitution of the United States of America—Analysis and Interpretation...
...Glantz writes about a little known offensive in World War II called Operation Mars...
...His travels from the fever swamps of the left to conservatism and enlightenment mirror those of the nation from the 6o's to the go's, and remind one of Whitaker Chambers's majestic Witness...
...Amazingly this most bloodless yet terrifying of wars has been largely forgotten by the intelligentsia and the populace...
...George Allen was governor of Virginia from 1994 to 1998...
...Finally, for folks like myself who become irritated occasionally with colleagues or kids or the state of American culture, I recommend Jeremiah Burroughs's The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, written in 1648 (Carlisle, Penn.: Banner of Truth Trust, 1998 reprint...
...If half of the people who lustily sing carols had a biblical world view, good Christian men could truly rejoice...
...Chee, an introspective man, is caught between the mystical world of the Navaho way, with its shamans and religious rites, and inescapable authority of the white man, as represented by condescending agents of the FBI and dilettantish academics...
...Sowell dismantles left-wing pieties with heat-seeking research, and demonstrates that utopianism begets both mediocrity and tyranny...
...We now know that the scare existed because there were real Reds, and many were goody-goody progressives such as Alger Hiss, whose lies divided the elites of the Republic for nearly five decades...
...He also writes a chapter that should forever bury the pompous pretensions of a lot of what passes for economics: "Reading about economics after watching a lot of 45 economic activity is like reading the assembly instructions after the Christmas toy has been put together...
...JOSEPH SHATTAN The Oak and the Calf by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn...
...No, it's not Lincoln or Kennedy, but Smith Hempstone, the U.S...
...This book won rave reviews, but attracted little attention, because it committed the sin of balance...
...G.K Chesterton: The Collected Works, volume III (Ignatius Press) by G.K...
...Olson served as chief investigative counsel to the U.S...
...Amen...
...Michael Ledeen and Joseph Shattan have much happier books for our Christmas recommendations...
...Even more, it is larger than its subject matter: Summer for the Gods, available in paper from Harvard University Press, is essential to understanding today's battles over the role of religion in public life...
...John R. Stilgoe is Robert Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at Harvard University...
...The Left's intellectuals taught that there was a mindless Red Scare in the West...
...The 1952 edition, supervised by the political scientist/constitutional scholar Edwin S. Corwin, included extensive narratives on the background and meaning of the Constitution...
...But Edward J. Larson, a professor of history and law at the University of Georgia, proves up to the task of getting the real story...
...Why you might well wonder...
...In this endeavor, Aubrey is of course assisted by the enigmatic Stephen Maturin, ship's doctor, naturalist, musician, spy, and erstwhile husband to the beautiful and impetuous Lady Diana, victim of a fatal accident at Maiden Oscott when her horses and coach, driven at speed, failed to negotiate a bridge...
...Sam is a missionary, working with Kenyan parliamentarians and government officials and diplomats, and he knows a lot about African politics...
...Speaking of prose as poetry, try Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy, still available through Amazon and book stores years after publication...
...Merlin is a dab hand at summoning up visions of the future, an immense help to him and Arthur as they fend off the marauding Saxon tribes...
...44 December 1.999/ January z000 The American Spectator The results are astonishing...
...Burroughs provides practical instruction on how to think about God's mercy, an item worth keeping in mind throughout the year but especially on Christmas...
...The Everlasting Man...
...The next editions came out in 1923,1924, and 1938...
...The other book involves the great American hero to Kenyans...
...I last visited with these Tony Hill erman protagonists in The First Eagle...
...MARVIN OLASKY 'Tis the season to be charitable, so people motivated more by emotion and guilt than by an understanding of how to help are handing out turkeys that may soon be traded for crack...
...That's all part of the poetry...
...He nevertheless produced a sympathetic but not fawning portrait of a cranky justice whose fame seems likely to outlive his contribution to jurisprudence...
...NAT HENTOFF The Shadow University: The Betrayal ofLiberty on America's Campuses by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate (HarperPerennial...
...48 December 1999/January 2000 • The American Spectator Thurgood Marshall: An American Revolutionary, by Juan Williams (Times Books...
...First published in 1974, the book has gone through several editions, with chapters added on the most recent appointees...
...Thank you...
...It gives readers insight into the inquisitive mind and inspirational ideas of the leading intellect of the American Revolution and our nation's founding...
...In Myths of Rich and Poor (Basic Books), W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm brilliantly put to rest the canard that capitalism of late benefits only the wealthy...
...House of Representatives' Committee on Government Reform and Oversight...
...Her Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story ofHillary Rodham Clinton is the nicely documented story of Hillary's rise from young brat to adult brat with the full power of the federal government at her disposal...
...If you want to experience the fire of epiphany, start here...
...STEVE FORBES These three wonderfully wise books will make you laugh, curse, and kvetch about utopian visions of big government and the politicians who love them...
...This book builds on previous works by Sowell, especially The Vision of the Anointed and A Conflict of Visions: An International History...
...She was intimately involved in the investigation of Travelgate and Filegate, and in this book she reveals the discrepancies between HRC's testimony under oath and government documents...
...Deanna Carlson's The Welfare of My Neighbor (Washington, D.C.: Family Research Council, 1999) is a practical and readable guide to helping and not hurting the poor...
...Solzhenitsyn is a man of extraordinary physical and moral energy, and he managed to compress some of that energy into this book...
...When I was young and foolish, I thought American history was boring while Soviet history was exciting...
...the left turned away because Williams didn't practice hagiography...
...John Steele Gordon's history of Wall Street, The Great Game (Scribner...
...Each case is described in two brief pieces: one by Professor Irons, which lays out the case's legal significance, and the other in the words of the plaintiff himself/herself, in interviews with Professor Irons...
...Orthodoxy...
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