Patrick Dempsey in Forbes: Great or Garish?
Desperately seeking new readers, advertising revenue, and relevance in the new media, such financial stalwarts as The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Forbes magazine have in recent years resorted to special supplements that highlight the lives of the...Enoch Powell—Right from the start?
Enoch at 100 Edited by Greville Howard. London: Biteback, 2012, hardback, 320pp., £25. A century after his birth, the self-described “Tory anarchist” John Enoch Powell is still capable of arousing devotion or detestation. After his death in 1998, a major memorial...In Praise of Discipline, Common Sense, and a Humane Businessman
Retailer Fred Meijer’s Life Fred Meijer: Stories of His Life by Bill Smith and Larry ten Harmsel, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 351 pp, $11.00 cloth, 2009 At a time in American history when successful businessmen are widely viewed with...A Study of Two Masters of English Prose
The Same Man: George Orwell & Evelyn Waugh in Love and War by David Lebedoff. Random House (New York) 264 pp., 2008 Reviewed by John P. Rossi Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell were two of the twentieth century’s greatest masters of English prose: Waugh in his comic...
I can’t believe it’s already been 3 years since Gerald’s passing. If you didn’t know him, Gerald was the first person to ever encourage 22-year-old me to write a book review. I thought “why does anyone care what I think about a book?” That’s who he was for so many young writers
Join us TOMORROW! Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase advanced copies of "How Do You Do It? The Selected Works of Gerald Russello."
This Wednesday in NYC: Rusty Reno will speak on "The Conservative Paradox: Mourning and Gratitude " at the Bookman's Gerald Russello Memorial Lecture. RSVP here:
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