I remember her turquoise suit, her red lipstick, her perfect posture, her poise. I remember Justice Thomas’ denials, and the senators’ sneers and the pundits’ dismissals. She followed him from one job to another, they’d say. A few jokes about… Read More ›
Book Review
BOOK REVIEW: Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County, by Kristen Green
Book review by Jim McCarthy Sub-titled A Family, a Virginia Town, A Civil Rights Battle, this sometimes first-hand account of the massive resistance that gripped Virginia chronicles the author’s recall of her experience in the 1950s and ‘60s in Prince… Read More ›
Defectors, by Joseph Kanon
Reviewed by Jim McCarthy Occasionally, it’s a good thing for a blog that tends to be serious to reveal its lighter side and share its interest in fiction, especially police procedurals and spy tales. Defectors is set in Russia in… Read More ›
BOOK REVIEW: The Fifties, by David Halberstam
Reviewed by Jim McCarthy Readers should recall Halberstam’s seminal volume The Best and the Brightest,… Read More ›
BOOK REVIEW: Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson
Reviewed by Jim McCarthy “Just out of curiosity. Pure curiosity.” These are the final words of Isaacson’s impressive biography of Leonardo da Vinci, which includes a number of excerpts from da Vinci’s writings as well as over 100 illustrations of artistic accomplishments,… Read More ›
Clapper: Russians Swung Election for Trump
As discussed with Rachel Maddow on May 23, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, in his new book, affirms his clear opinion that the Russians swung the 2016 presidential election for Donald Trump. In the book, Clapper writes: By… Read More ›
“DEMOCRATS NOMINATE VIRULENT ANTI-SEMITE IN THE FIFTH DISTRICT” ~VA GOP Press Release
Following is the first paragraph of the VA GOP’s press release: May 5, 2018 Richmond, VA – Today, the Democrat Party of Virginia nominated Leslie Cockburn to run against Republican incumbent Tom Garrett in Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District. Cockburn has a… Read More ›
WHITE TRASH: A BOOK REVIEW
Fans of American history who appreciate the view of iconoclasts such as Howard Zinn and Eric Foner will enjoy White Trash, subtitled The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, by Nancy Isenberg, as she persuasively and skillfully traces the… Read More ›