Books for Christmas: Our annual list of holiday gift suggestions from distinguished readers and writers
Allen, George
"Books for Christmas" Our annual list of holiday gift suggestions from distinguished readers and writers. George Allen noughing It by Mark Twain: Having worked as a "buckaroo" near Winnemucca, Nevada, I find this to...
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...It's a brilliant skewering of liberalism and all its deceits and pretensions...
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...When you finish these books Churchill will have come alive before your eyes...
...My favorite was The Vision of the Anointed, first published in 1995...
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...Being possibly the longest book review in world history, through 656 pages it reports on how Churchill wrote his war memoirs...
...For a little inspiration, read No Excuses by Kyle Maynard, born with no arms below the elbow, no legs below the knee, but unstoppable in everything he does, from wrestling, football, studies, and just living his life...
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...by Tony Blankley: The editor of the Washington Times op-ed page issues a powerful and well-timed warning that if the growing power of Islam turns Europe into Eurabia, "it would be a condition Americans should dread and should move mountains to avoid...
...Problems exist because others are not as wise or as virtuous as the anointed," Sowell writes...
...Himself a master of the art, Pearce probes the religious journeys of these great men and women...
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...Why, White asks, did Hiss, an intelligent and well-educated man, spend 40 years lying about his past, dragging his family, friends, old colleagues, and, in a sense, the whole left-wing establishment into that lie, when it would have been so easy for him to admit that he was a spy when caught and then go on with the rest of his life...
...But great movements need manifestos, and the property rights movement has two...
...The • temptation is to take the book in one gulp...
...3*John S. Gardner served as general counsel of the U.S...
...When she left, the Democrats had the governorship and majorities in both houses of the legislature...
...My favorite, Churchill and America by Sir Martin Gilbert, Churchill's official biographer, chronicles Churchill's profound interest in America, from his earliest days reading books his American mother gave him about American history to his last years when the aged Prime Minister talked so frequently of the Anglo-American "special relationship" and even of possible Union between the two peoples...
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...By far and away my favorite book on the art of communications is by Roger Ailes, the present head of Fox News, with the help of his former partner Jon Kraushar...
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...Circa 1100 A.D., Brother Cadfael is a Welshman and a former soldier and adventurer, but now a monk with Agatha Chris-tie's Miss Marples' knack for finding murder and mayhem in the countryside...
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...The Closers and The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly: Great reading for airplanes, vacations, bedtime, or in front of the fireplace by a master of crime, law, and Los Angeles...
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...Paul Doherty has two protagonists: Hugh Corbett of Medieval Mysteries and The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, spanning post-1066 England...
...He explains, perhaps unintentionally, why dumping money in Third World countries is mostly a useless endeavor...
...George Allen noughing It by Mark Twain: Having worked as a "buckaroo" near Winnemucca, Nevada, I find this to be one of my all time favorite books and a true classic...
...Why did Eisenhower choose Earl Warren for chief justice...
...Writing about the Ireland of 600 A.D., Peter Tremayne has penned at least six novels featuring the lawyer Sister Fidelma and her "friend" the Saxon monk, Eadulf...
...A unique concept and a great way to appreciate the Ramayana, an epic that has influenced mythology and storytelling all over the Subcontinent and Southeast Asia for over 2000 years...
...Underpaid European history professors have created an entire industry of murder mysteries set in the Middle Ages...
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...Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard, a Fox News commentator, and author of a book about President Bush, Rebel-in-Chief, to be published in January...
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...This book is filled with wonderful anecdotes and stirring tales about the life of the man who was, in my view, the greatest leader of the 20th century...
...As my father would say, "The future is now...
...44 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2005/JANUARY 2006 "It's a miracle...I can hear my granddaughter's voice on the phone again...
...George Allen is a former governor from Virginia and currently serves as a United States Senator from the Commonwealth...
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...No more feeling sorry for yourself after reading Kyle Alfred S. Regnery is publisher of The American Spectator...
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...This has been a very good year for Churchill books...
...An avid supporter of fine arts, education, and culture, Maestro Kubik has generously offered to donate 20% of the sales from this never before released collection, to The American Spectator...
...I also stumbled onto Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees by David Alistair Yalof of the University of Connecticut...
...Of course, I keep something by Balzac and Simenon on standby at all times...
...I'd say read this if you're only going to read one Sowell book...
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...444, DECEMBER 2005/JANUARY 2006 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 41 BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS Theodore B. Olson My FBI by Louis J. Freeh: Honest, tough, and straight reporting from a man who just couldn't be corrupted by his service for eight years inside the Clinton administration as director of the FBI...
...I probably don't need to tell Spectator readers to stay away from Jimmy Carter's latest, Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis (unless you want to help us find Current Wisdom), but I will anyway...
...DECEMBER 2005/JANUARY 2006 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 39 BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS Priscilla L. Buckley The most fascinating book I've read all year is April 1865: The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik...
...With the integrity and the tenacity not to be seduced, undermined, or driven away until it was safe to hand the FBI over to a president who valued the rule of law as much as he did...
...Gerrymandered House seats and state borders guarantee Republican majorities, but not the 60 votes needed in the Senate to pass anything fatal to the Democrat coalition...
...Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time blasts the age-old myth that Richard III is evil personified...
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...India: A History by John Keay: The best recent single volume history, a delight to read, by a noted British scholar who writes history the old-fashioned way...
...It certainly isn't a new book, but it is timeless...
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...Just what the Clinton presidency feared most...
...Whitman's career in politics is over, but she has great comedic talent...
...In thisvery intelligent book they make bold to tell us where the modern woman is going—not where the feminists used to think...
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...Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt: A magisterial history of modern Europe by a British social democrat who understands that the publication of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago in 1973 represented the moment when "the Master Narrative of the twentieth century...
...The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri: Some Indians will not be pleased at the inclusion of this work by an exile who could be harshly critical of his native land...
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...Finally, as things heat up in Washington on the tax reform front, our clever friend Steve Forbes comes out with Flat Tax Revolution...
...But if you read it, you're certain to read more Sowell...
...A close runner-up is In Command of History by David Reynolds...
...The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown: A super-secret effort by various medieval secret societies to unmask a grand conspiracy by the Catholic Church to cover up alleged fact that Mary Magdalen was the wife of Jesus and co-founder of the Church by waging a 2000-year public relations campaign portraying her as an easy woman, unraveled by brilliant Harvard professor of symbology...
...Come, come, Professor Hayward...
...Crichton's tome serves as a good antidote to the religion of global warming and the junk science that feeds it...
...Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose: This is the great story of the Lewis and Clark expedition and their challenges exploring the Louisiana Territory...
...Fleming's devotion to her craft is painstakingly detailed in this eminently readable volume, which offers a delightful tour of singing lessons, voice exercises, insecurities, and triumph...
...Both masterfully researched and masterly written...
...It's an extremely well-reported and enthralling account of how presidents from Truman to Clinton picked justices...
...It relates the adventurous story of life moving west in the boomtown days of Virginia City, Nevada...
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...Thomas Jefferson by Christopher Hitchens: A short, brilliant, and insightful rendition of the life of Thomas Jefferson by one of the most captivating writers and keenest observers of life and politics alive today...
...BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS Halftime by Bob Buford: An interesting, provocative treatment of the traditional mid-life crisis...
...She then goes on to suggest that her governing style of bigger government and social liberalism is the model for the Reagan/ Bush Republican Party in other states...
...Another fine book is What Women Really Want by Celinda Lake and Kellyanne Conway...
...Priscilla L. Buckley is the former managing editor of National Review and the author of Living It Up With National Review: A Memoir...
...In it he demonstrates how a 17 percent flat tax will enrich the United States Treasury and let the taxpayer off in terms of time spent filing, taxes paid, privacy, and more...
...Someday I hope to watch a debate between Tom Bethell, arguing the primacy of property rights, and a disciple of the late Jude Wanniski whose The Way the World Works argued everything flowed from low tax rates...
...While I don't agree with every surmise in this book, Mr...
...Candace Robb has seven Owen Archer mysteries, set c. 1370...
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...But the author ranks with Conrad as among the finest prose stylists writing in English as an adoptive language and the recounting of his youth of a century ago will leave a vivid impression...
...These ought to keep you busy until we have enough senators to privatize Social Security...
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...A short explosive book, every chapter unravels a mystery and rights a terrible wrong...
...Then to get ready for an interview with Sowell for a Fox News special on him, I read five more over the summer...
...Klein was often in the unique, if not impossible, position between two distrustful counterparties...
...These are two women who through polling and political consultancies know the deepest trends in the country...
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...Since reading them I have not been able to quite shake the old boy, and I wish he would stop chewing that old burnt-out cigar and light up a new one...
...Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God by Jonah Blank: Each chapter in this book, by a staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (but don't hold that against him), begins by retelling a portion of the Ramayana epic followed by relevant and illuminating stories from his travels through modern India...
...Klein gives a balanced and unemotional portrait of that awkward situation...
...In addition, Buford provides a helpful road map to personal goals after the cheering has stopped...
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...Listen to Lucinda Williams singing "Cold, Cold Heart" and you will be haunted by Hank Williams forever...
...I picked it up mired in dubiety...
...This is a book for winter and for firesides...
...His most recent is a collection of short stories, A Gladiator Dies Only Once...
...So there is plenty of time to read murder mysteries...
...Sometimes I pick it up just to read a chapter or two, and over the decades I have always enjoyed the descriptions of colorful characters, animals, and lands that remind me of the unlimited potential and spirit of Nevada...
...William E. Simon, Jr., a businessman, philanthropist, and former federal prosecutor, was the 2002 Republican candidate for governor of California...
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...He felt sorry for Warren after passing him up for a Cabinet post and promised him the first Supreme Court vacancy as consolation...
...Principle-Centered Leadership by Stephen R. Covey: The old adage, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day...
...The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman: Essential reading for anyone who is concerned about America's place in the competitive world marketplace...
...Alfred S. Regnery You cannot really understand the 20th century without reading Witness by Whittaker Chambers...
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...Steven Saylor's Roma sub Rosa series has seven novels and two books of short stories starring the Sherlock Holmes of his day, Gordianus the Finder...
...it is our worst president's check list of everything that is wrong with America, most of which comes from everybody to the right of, well, Jimmy...
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...Getting Through the Boring Days Ahead with Murder Mysteries: Like football fans after the Super Bowl, those who follow American politics will have a lot of downtime in the next three years...
...On the neighboring region of Central Asia, I recommend Tournament of Shadows, by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac...
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...First, Tom Bethell's The Noblest Triumph documents the power of property rights to shape nations and history...
...She calls herself an economic conservative but winks at us with the fact that she bumped New Jersey state spending from $14.6 billion to $20 billion in her seven years in office and increased state debt from $3 billion to $12 billion...
...Liberals—the anointed—are better than you and They're morally superior and never have to buttress their opinions with anything as mundane as evidence...
...I'd read eight or nine of them on subjects as varied as ethnic groups, immigration, Marxism, and late-talking children...
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...Freeh had been an FBI agent, United States attorney, and federal judge before taking on the FBI job...
...Doherty also has four books based in Ancient Egypt...
...The most provocative was Futuring: The Exploration of the Future by Edward Cornish, editor of The Futurist magazine, and, I am happy to say, a former buddy of mine at United Press in Paris in the mid-1950s...
...Read this book and you will see why there will always be a Forbes magazine telling us how to make and save money...
...When Whitman was elected, New Jersey had the governorship and two-thirds majorities in the House and Assembly...
...De Soto gives a great history of the development of property rights in the United States, reminding us that we too didn't get it right at first...
...Not only do I like the connection to Virginia and Thomas Jefferson, but I also enjoyed Ambrose's retelling of the story of these courageous men living by their resourcefulness in wild and uncharted lands...
...The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by 40 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2005/JANUARY 2006 BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS Hernando de Soto: Capitalism only works in countries where independent judiciary, uncorrupted government bureaucracy, and transparent indicia of ownership enforce private property rights...
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...Sometimes as I sit through hours and hours of endless meetings in Washington where senators think they are 38 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2005/JANUARY 2006 BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS working hard, I think of real hard work and the determination of the Corps of Discovery as their findings opened new opportunities for our young nation...
...But former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman's book, It's My Party Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America, reminds one of Woody Allen's early New Yorker essays...
...But the prof has pulled it off and given us a meditation on political greatness complete with amusing anecdotes...
...Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday: A magnificent and devastating account of the monster who set back the rise of China by half a century...
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...First, for viewers of the new HBO miniseries Rome—a cross between Sex and the City and The Sopranos with togas and swords—there are two series of detective novels based in the period from the collapsing Roman Republic to Augustus's empire...
...Roger Ebert Right now I am amazed by the works of Cormac McCarthy, particularly Blood Meridian and Suttree, which have the verbal complexity of poetry and are such a tactile reading experience that on reaching the last page of Blood Meridian I simply started again...
...Strategies for Winning by Coach George Allen: I know some will say I am biased, but this book is one of the best collections of admonitions and advice for success on the football field and in life...
...It's further evidence that American business and government leaders need to redouble our efforts to innovate, adapt, and improve if we are to compete and succeed in the future...
...It is a book about Churchill in World War II, the Cold War, and the world of scholarship...
...It tells the history of the "Great Game," the long struggle between the British, Russians, and others for mastery of the region commanding the approaches to India...
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...Friedman pulls together an impressive array of facts and figures on the fast-changing global economy and its effects...
...Tom Knott State of Fear by Michael Crichton: A James Bond-like thriller in which the politically correct Friends of the Earth are the Dr...
...Every new generation should have the spirit of the Corps of Discovery...
...And if you want even more about the greatest spy case, read Alger Hiss's Looking Glass Wars, by University of Virginia law professor G. Edward White, newly out in paperback...
...It was a most helpful book for me running for and serving as Governor of Virginia...
...Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform...
...The Inner Voice by Renee Fleming: This autobiography by Renee Fleming charts her inspirational rise as a nationally respected singer for the New York Metropolitan Opera...
...Fred Barnes You can never go wrong with Thomas Sowell, the great public intellectual at the Hoover Institution...
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...French Negotiating Behavior: Dealing With La Grande Nation by Charles Cogan: The former head of the CIA Paris station offers a politely deflating counter...
...The second seminal work on property rights is Hernando de Soto's The Mystery of Capital, and it demonstrates how property rights—not foreign aid or even democracy—is what the Third World needs to develop...
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...Making It Perfectly Clear: An Inside Account of Nixon's Love-Hate Relationship with the Media by Herb Klein: This is a thoughtful and thorough recollection of a tumultuous public career as seen through the insightful eyes of President Nixon's director of communications...
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...And this just in: as this issue was going to bed I received a copy of Steven Hayward's new book, Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the - Making of Extraordinary Leaders...
...Two Topical Books on Property Rights: The Supreme Court's Kelo decision—upholding the power of local governments to take your house and give it to Starbucks—has energized the far-flung but heretofore under-organized property rights movement...
...Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams by Paul Hemphill: A moving and revealing biography of a man who has inspired generations of songwriters and musicians...
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...Martin Walker Le Requin et la Mouette (The Shark and the Seagull), by Dominique de Villepin: It is worth learning French to read this extra- ordinarily vainglorious guff from France's prime minister...
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Vol. 38 • December 2005 • No. 10
