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It Was a Very Good Year

Recently marking his 86th year, Henry Kissinger remains unique among recent American secretaries of state—indeed, perhaps of all of our secretaries of state. Born in Furth, Germany, of a Jewish family obliged to emigrate in the late 1930s, he worked ...

From MARK FALCOFF, American Spectator,  7 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Richard Nixon,  Henry Kissinger,  Harvard University,  Nelson Rockefeller,  Salvador Allende

Radical Sick

Young Che: Memories of Che Guevara by his Father Edited and Translated by Lucía Álvarez de Toledo (Vintage Books, 350 pages, $14.95 paper) Young Che is the latest addition to the vast flood of devotional literature on the Argentine-Cuban ...

From MARK FALCOFF, American Spectator,  19 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Che Guevara,  Fidel Castro,  Karl Marx,  Vanity Fair,  Annie Leibovitz

He Was There

THE LATE PETER RODMAN, who died last summer, was one of those remarkable people rare in Washington—the key insider unknown to the general public and (rarer still) happy to remain that way. A lawyer by training, a former student of Henry Kissinger ...

From MARK FALCOFF, American Spectator,  26 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Richard Nixon,  Henry Kissinger,  George H. W. Bush,  White House,  Ronald Reagan

A Writer's Reality, by Mario Vargas Llosa.

For the last 25 years, the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has been known to connoisseurs of fiction as one of the greatest living novelists (The Time of the Hero, The Green House, Conversations in the Cathedral). And over the last ten years he has ...

From MARK FALCOFF, Commentary,  22 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Mario Vargas Llosa,  Henry James

Gandhi and Churchill by Arthur Herman

Arthur Herman is a prolific historian known principally for works on British history, most notably his remarkable How the Scots Invented the Modern World. In this new, massive tome he undertakes a dual biography of two of the most important figures of ...

From MARK FALCOFF, Commentary,  19 May 2008
Related Topics: Anglo American plc

Arthur and Writer

This review ran in the February 2008 issue of . To subscribe to our monthly print edition, click here. Journals, 1952-2000 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Edited by Andrew Schlesinger and Stephen Schlesinger (Penguin Press, 894 pages, $40) The late Arthur ...

From MARK FALCOFF, American Spectator,  7 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,  Ronald Reagan,  White House,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Jimmy Carter

Strobe Lite

The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation by Strobe Talbott (Simon & Schuster, 495 pages, $28) Now that so many people within the media and outside of it assume that the next president of the ...

From MARK FALCOFF, American Spectator,  12 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Strobe Talbott,  Charles Lane,  Bill Clinton,  U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush

Upward and Onward

(This review will appear in the March 2008 issue of . To subscribe to our monthly print edition, click here.) Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism By Alfred S. Regnery (Threshold/Simon & Schuster, 448 pages, $26) SOMEWHERE BACK IN THE ...

From MARK FALCOFF, American Spectator,  12 Feb 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  William F. Buckley, Jr.,  U.S. Republican Party,  Herbert Clark Hoover,  White House

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