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Book Review: Escape From Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
What's it like to be born in a North Korean prison camp?
Read More »Book Review: Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver by Scott Stossell
Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver proves that Shriver was important for far more than the Kennedy connecion.
Read More »Book Review: Charles Munch by D. Kern Holoman
A fascinating account of the life of conductor Charles Munch.
Read More »Book Review: The Fall of the House of Forbes: The Inside Story of the Collapse of a Media Empire by Stewart Pinkerton
Forbes magazine rises and falls.
Read More »Book Review: The Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhower by Stephen E. Ambrose
Reprint of Stephen E. Ambrose's classic (and controversial) military history and biography of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Read More »Interview With Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, Authors of The Vow: The True Events that Inspired the Movie, Part 1
"Our heart is in the book as we wrote it and it shares the personal details of journey."
Read More »Book Review: Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
Van Gogh's life illustrates the fine line between genius and madness.
Read More »Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Jane Smiley
New biography illuminates Dickens' craft.
Read More »Book Review: He Ran All The Way: The Life of John Garfield by Robert Nott
“What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.” - John Garfield's last knockout in Body & Soul
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