Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
May 28, 2025Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
Book Review: My Life with Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz
May 27, 2025Charles Schulz (1922-2000) started out simply wanting to draw for a living. He never had any...
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
May 26, 2025In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
Book Review: Unbillable Hours: A True Story by Ian Graham
May 26, 2025It was an appeal on behalf of Mario Rocha, a Los Angeleno of Mexican descent, who...
Book Review: Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz by Randall Sandke
May 21, 2025Sandke offers no critical commentary about this piece of advice that was given Armstrong after he...
Book Review: The Songs of Hollywood by Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson
May 21, 2025For the next few years, Hollywood musicals, climaxing in 42nd Street (1933), would be "backstage" pictures....
Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
May 20, 2025Pity Duane W. Roller, author of Cleopatra: A Biography. I can just imagine the initial conversation...
Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
May 19, 2025Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...
Book Review: Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chloë Schama
May 17, 2025A secret affair. A scandalous sex-filled trial. A tell-all novel. If it’s any consolation to Tiger...
Book Review: Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen by Jimmy McDonough
May 14, 2025In the Nashville of the 1960s, songs were typically recorded in an hour or less and...




