Featured Reviews

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (2016) - Angela Lee Duckworth  (Grade:B)

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The Autobiography of an Idea (1924) - Louis Henry Sullivan  (Grade:B)

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A False Spring (1975) - Pat Jordan  (Grade:A+)

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On the Edge (1998) - Patrick St Aubyn  (Grade:C+)

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Resurrection Bay (2015) - Emma Viskic  (Grade:B)

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Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty (2016) - Dan Jones  (Grade:A+)

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Native Angels: A Peter Boone Novel (1995) - William Jaspersohn  (Grade:B)

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The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism (2008) - Geoff Nicholson  (Grade:B)

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The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man (2014) - Luke Harding  (Grade:B)

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Conservatism: from John Adams to Churchill (1956) - Peter Robert Edwin Viereck  (Grade:B+)

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The Black Spider [Die schwarze Spinne] (1842) - Jeremias Gotthelf  (Grade:A)

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Second Treatise of Government (1689) - John Locke  (Grade:B+)

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A Republic, If You Can Keep It (2019) - Neil McGill Gorsuch  (Grade:A-)

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The Pedestrian (1951) - Ray Bradbury  (Grade:B+)

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

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Rams (Hrútar) (2015) - Grímur Hákonarson  (Grade:A+)

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It Happens Every Spring (1949) - Lloyd Bacon  (Grade:B)

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05/30/20:

Happy Birthday to Glenn Dryfoos (May 30)

On May 5, 1866, the people of Waterloo, NY decorated the graves of Civil War dead. Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, John A. Logan, proclaimed May 30th Decoration Day in 1868. In 1882 the name was changed to Memorial Day & President Nixon moved the holiday to the last Monday in May in 1971. We honor the memory of those who died to make and keep us free.

GK Chesterton (1874-1936) was born in London, ENG on May 29, 1874. Read Orrin's review of The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (1908) (Grade: A)

John F. Kennedy (1914-63) was born in Brookline, MA on May 29, 1914.

Ian Fleming (1908-1964) was born in London, England on May 28, 1908. Read Orrin's review of Dr. No (1958) (Grade: B+)

Walker Percy (1916-1990) was born in Birmingham, AL on May 28, 1916. We especially recommend The Last Gentleman, and Orrin reviewed The Moviegoer one of the Modern Library Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century.

John Cheever (1912-82) was born in Quincy, MA on May 27, 1912. Read Orrin's reviews of The Stories of John Cheever (1975) & The Wapshot Chronicles (1957)

Edmund Morris (1940-) was born in Nairobi, Kenya on May 27, 1940. Read Orrin's review of Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (1999)(Grade: A/F)

Tony Hillerman (1925-) was born in Sacred Heart, OK on May 27, 1925. Try any of his terrific series of Navajo Tribal Police procedurals, like The Dark Wind (1982) (Tony Hillerman 1925-)

Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), was born in St. Mary's County., MD on May 27, 1999. An alcoholic, VD ridden, philandering, Stalinist, he went to prison for refusing to testify before HUAC, but he also wrote one of the great novels of all time, The Maltese Falcon (1930)(read Orrin's review, Grade: A+) & virtually created the hard-boiled private eye genre.

Herman Wouk (1915-) was born in New York, NY on May 27, 1915. Read Orrin's review of The Caine Mutiny (1951)(Herman Wouk 1915-)

John Wayne (1907-1979) was born in Winterset, IA on May 26, 1907. He & John Ford collaborated on two of the greatest movies ever made: The Quiet Man (1952) & The Searchers (1956) and together made the Brothers Judd Ten Greatest Cultural Figures of the 20th Century

Washington Roebling (1837-1926) , who succeeeded his Dad as chief engineeer on the Brooklyn Bridge, was born in Saxonburg, PA on May 26, 1837. Read Orrin's review of The Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (1972)(David McCullough 1933-) (Grade: A+)

Happy Birthday to Bill McCarthy (May 24)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 23, 1859. Read Orrin's review of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) (Grade: A+)

Par Lagerkvist (1891-1974) was born in Växjö, SWE on May 23, 1891. Read Orrin's review of Barabbas (1951) (Grade: A+)

Garry Wills (1934-) was born in Atlanta, GA on May 22, 1934. Read Orrin's review of Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (1992).

Happy Birthday to Betsy Booth (May 22)

Richard Wagner (1813-83) was born in Leipzig on May 22, 1813. His greatest achievement was Der Ring des Nibelungen, available in a 14 disc set for a mere $144.

Vance Oakley Packard (1914-96) was born in Granville Summit, PA on May 22, 1914. Read Orrin's review of A Nation of Strangers (1972)