Author Archive
September 8, 2017Say it out loud and the next words of out your mouth will probably be John Wayne. One of the staples of late-night television movies remains the 1942 epic that starred Mr. Wayne...
August 14, 2017Myths die hard. None have resisted truth more than the fables that sprang up after Abraham Lincoln's death launched his hagiography as The Great Emancipator of the roughly four...
May 17, 2017Do not confuse this cracking good detective story with the currently available ghost story, which I am neither reviewing nor reading.
May 1, 2017Most of us went to school with someone like Brian Patrick Regan. Tall, pudgy and clumsy, these ones we called nerds or dummies were embarrassingly slow in class, awkward in social...
April 5, 2017Paul Dickson is the Washington area's most prolific and versatile historian of major figures and events ranging from the space program to politics to baseball. In this multilayered...
March 27, 2017For more than 50 years British historian John Julius Norwich has been generating scores of thoroughly researched, engagingly written books that are damned with the faint praise of...
March 2, 2017Here's a novel way to chase those torpid springtime blues: go see the production of the play King Charles III currently on at Washington's fine Shakespeare Theater Company. Then...
