Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Book review: Mary was a 'Captive Queen'

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Jade Scott , is a specialist on Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587), and the secretary of the Scottish History Society and an associate fellow ...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Still another book on Tsar Nicholas II, but this one ...

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Tsuyoshi Hasegawa professor emeritus in history at the University of California at Santa Barbara has written many books on Russian history,...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Four great audiobooks by Dolly, Mel, Rod, and Billie Jean

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They would be  Mel Brooks ,   Rod Stewart ,  Dolly Parton , and  Billie Jean King , talking about themselves in their autobiographies  (or i...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

An art lover's must read

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If you love anything about art, this is a fascinating excursion into the wild world of art. The Devil in the Gallery: How Scandal, Shock, An...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

I go da da for Da Da

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George Grosz (1893-1959),  The Guilty One Remains Unknown , 1919, pen and Italian ink drawing, collage on cardboard, the Art Institute of Ch...
Friday, May 10, 2024

Oppenheimer's biographer Kai Bird at the Aspen

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Kai Bird and Marie Arana at the Aspen Institute, May 6, 2024/ By Patricia Leslie At a talk at the  Aspen Institute  earlier this month with ...
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Highly recommended: 'Your Table Is Ready'

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Drugs, sex, rock ‘n’ roll… And would you like some food with that?  That pretty well sums up the first half of Your Table Is Ready by Micha...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Gottlieb's 'Avid Reader' highly recommended for the wordy

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Like so many other memoirs, I was led to Avid  Reader: A Life (2016)  by the obituary of the author, Robert Gottlieb (1931-2023), the exal...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

Another must for journalists: Carl Bernstein's book

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  You know it's a "must." He's a "must" for anyone who's a news-aholic, and/or in the writing business (whic...
Sunday, December 5, 2021

Book review: 'The Columnist' by Donald A. Ritchie, highly recommended for journalism scholars

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Who's the Drew Pearson now? I can think of no one who fits the bill. Drew Pearson (1897-1969) was a muckraking journalist who helped s...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Book review: 'The Woman Who Stole Vermeer'

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  Rose Dugdale  is 80 years old this year and practically an icon in Ireland where she romped and fought the British for years. Always proud...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Book review: 'The Assassination of Trotsky'

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A Diego Rivera mural depicts Trotsky with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "true champions of the workers' struggle." Part of t...