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№49
Title: The Gun Seller [$]
Author: Hugh Laurie
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Year: 1998
Pages: 368
For many people, House might be their first exposure to British actor Hugh Laurie; others, especially if you live on the Isles or have a particular affection for British [...]
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№48
Title: The Ten-Cent Plague [$]
Author: David Hadju
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year: 2008
Pages: 448
I was always around comics growing up; with the exception of the 6-part Double Dragon series, however, I was never really a collector myself. I spent a lot [...]
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№44
Title: His Excellency: George Washington [$]
Author: Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2005
Pages: 352
Hot on the heels of John Adams comes this new book about George Washington; I’ve mentioned before that I don’t usually read a lot of pure history books or [...]
It’s been too long since I had any Christopher Hitchens video love here. Here he is giving a speech based on his book about George Orwell.
October 21, 2002 @ The Commonwealth Club.
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№37
Title: John Adams [$]
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Year: 2002
Pages: 752
I will admit immediately that I am not a great reader of history, or even of autobiography. I read just about anything and everything, but for whatever reason, have read [...]
Re: the Bosnia trip. Ask yourself if the difference between landing in a hail of sniper fire and landing on a secure base, with children in a war-torn country is a “misstatement.” Also ask yourself, even if she had braved sniper fire, if this would qualify as “executive experience.” Perhaps Sinbad should have [...]
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№26
Title: The Assault on Reason [$]
Author: Al Gore
Publisher: Penguin Press HC
Year: 2007
Pages: 320
I hadn’t even been aware that Al Gore had written a book; we all know him, of course, as the human klaxon for global warming, but he’s apparently [...]
“Saying that Hillary has Executive Branch experience is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle.”
New York’s Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, is in trouble after getting caught soliciting a prostitute. Oops. A shame, that: I liked the man’s work.
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