Here are two important books that stake out important positions in the looming debate over the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement.
It’s almost obligatory to begin any comment on Victor Hugo with Andre Gide’s famous answer when asked to name France’s greatest poet: “Victor Hugo, alas.”
American Public Radio’s Marketplace program invited me to nominate a business book for summer reading. By happenstance, I had just finished rereading (well, rehearing) Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit and was inspired to select it.
If works of history can ever be described as “heroic,” then surely Richard Evans’ exhaustive and meticulous Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial meets the test.
In my house, books are distributed room to room on principles that have a good deal more to do with the availability of shelving than any kind of bibliographic logic.