Month: December 2013

Holiday Gift Guide: “Mr. President” by Harlow Giles Unger

December 4, 2013 admin 0

Would it even be the holidays without a political biography for dad from Harlow Giles Unger (Lion of Liberty, John Qunincy Adams). “Mr. President”: George Washington and the Making of the Nation’s Highest Office (DaCapo) is a very good book in a series of them. In his typically lucid and conversational style, Unger paints a never-before-seen portrait of Washington as a surprisingly beleaguered leader whose challenges in many ways echo those of the current occupier […]

Fiction: Death of the Black-Haired Girl
by Robert Stone

December 3, 2013 admin 0

(Editor’s note: This review comes from Steven Nester, now a resident of Austerlitz, New York, and the host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, Mystery Scene and Firsts Magazine.) Robert Stone might be one of the best and last of the postwar literary adventure writers. Taking over from Ernest […]