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- War on Two Fronts: An Infantry Commander's War in Iraq and the Pentagon
- War on Two Fronts: An Infantry Commander's War in Iraq and the Pentagon. Col. Christopher P. Hughes. casemate. 306 pages; color photographs; index; $32.95. Col. Christopher Hughes' War on Two Fronts: An Infantry Commander's War in Iraq and the Pentagon is both a memoir of his combat experience and an...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- US Senator Kennedy in eight-million-dollar memoir deal: reports
- NEW YORK AFP — Senator Edward Kennedy, the elder statesman of the US political clan scarred so often by tragedy, is to publish his memoirs in a deal reportedly worth eight million dollars. The reported advance would vault the younger brother of president John F. Kennedy to the top...
- Research articles 2007-11-27
- Mexico's Fox mocks Bush in memoir
- WASHINGTON AFP — Vicente Fox, known for his candid talk when he was Mexico's president, speaks his mind when describing several world personalities including US President George W. Bush in his memoir that went on sale in the United States this week. "My first impression of George W. Bush...
- Research articles 2007-10-06
- Vietnam publishes Hillary Clinton's memoir
- HANOI AFP — A publisher in communist Vietnam has printed a Vietnamese version of the memoir of US senator Hillary Clinton, who is seen as the Democratic frontrunner for the White House, the company has said. About 10,000 copies of "Living History" were printed in the capital Hanoi and southern...
- Research articles 2006-11-23
- Memoir reveals more about man
- By Steve Fry THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL The Civil War had Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the college professor from Maine who transformed himself into the best known citizen-soldier in the Union Army and inspired the 20th Maine regiment to hold the crucial Little Round Top at the Battle of...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- Vietnam: General Vo Nguyen Giap
- The Global War on Terrorism is a 21st-century conflict, but as the United States finds itself engaged in counterinsurgency operations, it is useful to look back at past experiences to see if lessons might be gleaned to inform at least some of our actions in the months and possibly years...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Linn, Ruth: Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting.(Book Review)
- Linn, Ruth Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting Ithaca: Cornell University Press 154 pp., $20.00, ISBN 0-8014-4130-7 Publication Date: August 2004 Ruth Linn, the dean of the education faculty at Haifa University, has produced a slim but provocative volume concerning Holocaust historiography, Israeli...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- General Franks, leader of US invasion of Iraq, releases memoir
- WASHINGTON AFP ? Retired army general Tommy Franks, who led the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, released his memoirs this week, documenting, among other things, his surprise that Baghdad did not use weapons of mass destruction. The 590-page tome, "American Soldier," opens with Franks's childhood in Oklahoma and...
- Research articles 2004-08-04
- Memoir puts Clinton back in the spotlight
- NEW YORK AFP ? Bill Clinton fever gripped New York ahead of the release of the former president's autobiography, whose scandal-fuelled content looks set to shoot it straight to the top of the bestseller lists. The midnight launch of the 957-page "My Life" has taken on the trappings of...
- Research articles 2004-06-21
- Daily News, New York, Publishing Column.
- By Paul D. Colford, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 26--The New York Times greeted former executive editor Howell Raines' scorching critique of its staff and news product with conspicuous silence -- a story not worthy of coverage. ...
- Research articles 2004-03-26
- Justice Talking.(Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights)(Book review)(Book Review)
- TAKING LIBERTIES: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. By Aryeh Neier. Public Affairs. 406 pp. $30. In his memoir, Taking Liberties, Aryeh Neier emerges, almost despite himself, as a fascinating man. The story of his achievements is itself interesting and takes up the...
- Research articles 2003-10-20
- The Book on Bush
- The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, by David Frum (Random House, 303 pp., $25.95) Four decades ago, former White House speechwriter Emmett Hughes caused a stir in Washington with a thoughtful memoir of the Eisenhower presidency called The Ordeal of Power. The book was reflective...
- Research articles 2003-02-24
- Hillary watch
- No Probe-lem. The Justice Department, through the U.S. attorney in New York, has declined to file charges in the case alleging that President Clinton granted clemency to four Hasidic Jews after their tiny New York state community voted almost unanimously for his wife in the 2000 senatorial race. Although other...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- SOUL OF A LION: DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND.(Review) (book review)
- SOUL OF A LION: DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND. By ALICE VON HILDEBRAND. Ignatius. 322pp. $14.95 paper. Reared in the most privileged of circumstances in Florence and Munich, Dietrich von Hildebrand fled the Nazis in 1933, edited an anti-Nazi newspaper in Austria until the Anschluss, and...
- Research articles 2001-01-01
- life of an MIT president, The
- Holding the Center: Memoirs of a Life in Higher Education, Howard Wesley Johnson, The MIT Press, 1999, $3495 It's hard to say who will enjoy Howard Wesley Johnson's memoirs more, old hands in higher education who are interested in the good and not-so-good times that the 12th president of MIT...
- Research articles 1999-04-01
- Stranger Among Friends. - book reviews
- By David Mixner Bantam, $22.95 A good way to summarize society's stunning, if almost imperceptibly slow, transformation on the question of homosexuality is this: In the 1990s, one can be famous, not infamous, for being gay. If you think I exaggerate the shift, consider that as late as...
- Research articles 1996-11-01
- The Accidental Activist: A Personal and Political Memoir. - book reviews
- By Candace Gingrich with Cris Bull with Chris Bull Scribner, $23 A good way to summarize society's stunning, if almost imperceptibly slow, transformation on the question of homosexuality is this: In the 1990s, one can be famous, not infamous, for being gay. If you think I exaggerate the...
- Research articles 1996-11-01
- House and Home. - book reviews
- By Steve Gunderson and Rob Morris with Bruce Bower Dutton, $24.95 A good way to summarize society's stunning, if almost imperceptibly slow, transformation on the question of homosexuality is this: In the 1990s, one can be famous, not infamous, for being gay. If you think I exaggerate the...
- Research articles 1996-11-01
- Stranger Among Us. (book reviews)
- January 20, 1993, Inauguration Day, was party time across gay America--party time, part deux, that is. The liberation days of the seventies had been a sex-filled blast; but then came AIDS, the uninvited guest at the garden party that smashed all the crockery. During the subsequent...
- Research articles 1996-09-09
- Beria: Stalin's First lieutenant. (book reviews)
- By Amy Knight. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 312. $24.95.) The opening of Soviet and Russian archives will force scholars to reevaluate their views of Stalinism and totalitarianism As new pieces of research appear, it becomes increasingly clear that while Stalin himself...
- Research articles 1994-01-01
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