Featured Reviews

Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (2004) - Derrick A. Bell, Jr  (Grade:B+)

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Christmas at Thompson Hall (1877) - Anthony Trollope  (Grade:A-)

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Hollow (short story) (1982) - Breece D'J Pancake  (Grade:B)

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A Political Philosophy of Conservatism: Prudence, Moderation and Tradition (Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition) (2021) - Ferenc Horcher  (Grade:A-)

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The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1991) - Gordon S. Wood  (Grade:A)

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

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F1; The Movie (2025) - Joseph Kosinski  (Grade:A+)

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Phantom Thread (2017) - Paul Thomas Anderson  (Grade:A-)

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Karel Capek (1890-1938) was born on January 9, 1890. Read Orrin's review of Tales from Two Pockets (1932)(Grade: B+)

Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-94) was born in Yorba Linda, CA on January 9, 1913. Brothers Judd recommends the excellent Roger Morris biography: Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician

John Dunning (1942-) was born in Brooklyn, NY on January 9, 1942. Read Orrin's review of Booked to Die (1992)

Wilkie Collins (1824-99) was born in London, ENG on January 8, 1824. He penned one of the seminal mysteries in The Moonstone

Elvis Presley (1935-77), one of the Brothers Judd 10 Greatest Cultural Figures of the 20th Century, was born in Tupelo, MS on January 8, 1935. Read Orrin's review of Last Train to Memphis : The Rise of Elvis Presley (1994) (Peter Guralnick) (Grade: A)

Stephen Hawking (1942-) was born in Oxfordshire, ENG on January 8, 1942. Brothers Judd recommends his bestselling A Brief History of Time: From Big Bang to Black Holes (1988)

Zora Neale Hurston (1903-60) was born in Eatonville, FL on January 7, 1903. Read Orrin's review of Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)(Grade: B)

William Peter Blatty (1928-) was born in New York, NY on January 7, 1928. Read Orrin's review of The Exorcist (1971)(Grade: A+)

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was born in Galesburg, IL on January 6, 1878. He won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Abraham Lincoln but was first and foremost a poet; seven books of Sandburg's poems are available through a Univ. of Md. site

E.L. [Edgar Lawrence] Doctorow (1931-) was born in New York City, NY on January 6, 1931. Read Orrin's reviews of Welcome to Hard Times (1960)(Grade: C+) &Ragtime (1975)(Grade: A) & Billy Bathgate (1989)(Grade: C)

Wright Morris (1910-98) was born in Central City, NE on January 6, 1910.

Joan of Arc (1412-31) was born in Domrémy, France on January 6, 1412

Robert Duvall(1931-) was born in San Diego, CA on January 5, 1931. Brothers Judd particularly recommends his less well known star turn in Tender Mercies (1983) The Apostle (1997) (directed by Robert Duvall 1931-)

Umberto Eco (1932-) was born in Allessandria, Italy on January 5, 1932. Brothers Judd recommends his medieval mystery The Name of the Rose (1981)

Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) was born in Woolsthorpe, ENG on January 4, 1643.

Jakob (Ludwig Karl) Grimm (1785-1863) was born in Hanau, GER on January 4, 1785. There's an interesting Red Riding Hood site online.

J.R.R. [John Ronald Reuel ] Tolkein (1892-1973) was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa on January 3, 1892. Read Orrin's review ofThe Lord of the Rings [The Hobbit (1937), The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King (1948)](J.R.R. [John Ronald Reuel] Tolkien 1892-1973) (Grade: A+)

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was born on January 2, 1920. Read Orrin's review of The Foundation Trilogy (Grade: A-)

J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) was born in Washington, DC on January 1, 1895.

E.M. [Edward Morgan] Forster (1879-1970) was born in London, ENG on January 1, 1879. Read Orrin's reviews of A Passage to India (1924)(Grade: B) and Aspects of the Novel (1927)(Grade: A-)