“First Family: Abigail and John Adams” by Joseph J. Ellis
"First Family:Abigail and John Adams" By Joseph J. Ellis Alfred A. Knopf, 320 pages, $27.95 The lustful letter, like most things in these digital days, isn't what it once was....
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“First Family: Abigail and John Adams” by Joseph J. Ellis
"First Family:Abigail and John Adams"By Joseph J. EllisAlfred A. Knopf, 320 pages, $27.95 The lustful letter, like most things in these digital days, isn't what it once was. Never mind...
“Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead” by Paula Byrne
"Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead" By Paula Byrne HarperCollins, 384 pages, $25.99 The movie, they say, rarely surpasses the book. Notable exceptions of course come to...
“The November Criminals” by Sam Munson
''The November Criminals: A Novel '' By Sam Munson Doubleday, 240 pages, $23.95 Those who staff the admissions offices of America's more selective colleges and universities have the formidable obligation...
“Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America” by Jack Rakove
"Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America" By Jack Rakove Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 496 pp., $30 Reviewed By Kirk Davis Swinehart for the Chicago Tribune Since the end...
“Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man” by Bill Clegg
"Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man" By Bill Clegg Little, Brown & Company; 240 pp.; $23.99 Bill Clegg is proof, if any were needed, that you never can...
“Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor” by Tad Friend
"Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor" By Tad Friend Little, Brown and Company, 368 pages, $14.99 White Anglo-Saxon Protestants may be the last acceptable...
“The Thieves of Manhattan: A Novel” By Adam Langer
'The Thieves of Manhattan: A Novel' By Adam Langer Spiegel & Grau, 259 pp., $24 By their chunky glasses, facial scruff, skinny jeans, and iPhones you shall know them: New...
“Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century” By Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger
"Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century" By Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger HarperCollins, 512 pp., $27.99 Elizabeth Taylor and her husband Richard Burton apparently...
“The Privileges: A Novel” by Jonathan Dee
"The Privileges: A Novel" By Jonathan Dee Random House 272 pages, $25 The late Mrs. William F. Buckley Jr.—that splendid, long-reigning demigoddess of New York social life-- would have had...