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They say there are not many things the left and right can agree on these days, here’s one, Yalta: The Price of Peace is a great book! The end of the Cold War has given scholars a chance to step back and take a more dispassionate look at those eight consequential days in February 1945. […]
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I love books that stand conventional wisdom on its head and ask the reader to think about old problems in new ways. That, in a nutshell, is what Lee Smith has done with The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations. I especially liked the book description from Max Boot, The Strong […]
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One of the most underappreciated aspects of the Scott Brown victory in deep blue Massachusetts was his vigorous, clear, no apologies defense of some of the most controversial aspects related to how we handle the war on terror, or whatever the Obama administration is calling it this week. War on man-made disasters is sooooo 2009! […]
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Timothy P. Carney is the lobbying editor for the Washington Examiner and he joined me last night to talk about his thought provoking new book “Obamanomics“. Before talking about the book, I had to ask Tim about his amazing experience as a young journalist in Washington DC, working as a protege of the legendary reporter […]
Who wants to put aside for a few minutes The Age of Obama, and take a look back at The Age of Reagan instead? I thought so. Joining me last night was Steven F. Hayward, one of the country’s leading experts on the Reagan presidency, who has written an exhaustive two volume biography titled The […]
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James P. Othmer came to our attention with his first novel, The Futurist. He joined us a couple years back for an hour in studio to talk about the book. James has now written a highly entertaining look at his career in the advertising business, including a stint as Creative Director at mega firm Young […]
New York Times merger and acquisitions reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin has written the insiders account of what was going on in board rooms and the highest levels of government during the worst of the Wall Street meltdown. Too Big To Fail really gives the reader a sense of the players, their personalities and the rational […]
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