Guy Stern celebrated his 100th birthday in January 2022. In 2017, he received the highest French order of merit for military and civil service: the National Order of the Legion of Honor. Stern is a German-American decorated member of what we now know as the Ritchie Boys. He represents one of the approximately 15,000 men…
Book Review: ‘Ritchie Boy Secrets: How a Force of Immigrants and Refugees Helped Win World War II’
Book Review: ‘The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam’
September 6, 2022
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There are many things we don’t understand and may never know about the Vietnam War. One of those things that we will definitely never know for certain is whether John F. Kennedy Jr. would have continued the war had he been re-elected. In Marc J. Selverstone’s upcoming book, “The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American…
Book Review: ‘The Hotel Nantucket’: A Sizzling Summer Treat
I recently rewatched “Grand Hotel” (1932), directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. The story is full of heart-tugging scenarios from a variety of characters that travel in and out of this marvelous hotel. One of the hotel’s permanent residents ironically observes that, “People coming, going—nothing ever happens.” But a great deal transpires…
Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for Sept. 2–8
This week, we feature a memoir from a survivor of the Khmer Rouge and a compelling biography of an unlikely hero of the American Revolution. Fiction The Sharpe Legend Begins ‘Sharpe’s Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign, July 1809’ By Bernard Cornwell This is the first in the Sharpe’s Series by Bernard Cornwell. The…
Carlos Bulosan’s Essay, ‘Freedom From Want:’ A Freedom Borne of Work
August 30, 2022
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When we all gather around the table with friends and family for Thanksgiving or Christmas, we feel joyful and thankful to be surrounded by such good people and blessings. During this time, we celebrate and share our blessings—the fruits of our labor, borne of struggle and effort. In 1943, Norman Rockwell captured this joy and…
Gifts From the Hills: Some Highlights of Appalachian Literature
August 27, 2022
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Let’s start with that next-to-last word of the headline. If you visit Eastern Tennessee or Western North Carolina, you’ll immediately mark yourself as an outsider if you pronounce Appalachian as Ap-pull-lay-shun. It’s Ap-pull-latch-un to those who live there, with that last syllable dropping down hard as a stone. Appalachia touches 13 states and extends from…
Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for Aug. 26–Sept. 1
This week, we feature a biography of young Louis Braille for children, and an insightful examination of the biomedical field’s rise to power. Fiction The Clue Is in the Call ‘Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel’ By John le Carré Le Carré was the spy-master novelist of the 20th century. “Call for the…
Book Review: ‘Go West! A Memoir for My Sons: Our Family Journey and Khmer Rouge Life Experiences’
The years following the communist Khmer Rouge takeover in April 1975 were dark ones for Cambodia. It was a cruel regime. Many were killed, died from disease, or were separated from their families. An estimated 160,000 Cambodian refugees made the perilous decision to leave their homeland and seek a new life elsewhere, perhaps in France,…
Salman Rushdie Book Sales Surge in Aftermath of Assassination Attempt
Sales of Salman Rushdie’s controversial 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses” have surged in the days after the Indian-born writer was attacked and stabbed multiple times in New York state on Aug. 12. Readers have been purchasing the novel in solidarity with the badly injured author, even as the Iranian regime, which called for his assassination,…
If Personal Finance Intimidates You, This Book Should Help
If you’ve never heard of Ronald Read, you’ll be forgiven. Though Read had a net worth of more than $8 million at the time of his quiet death in 2014 at the age of 92, he was hardly headline news. His life was so unassuming and everyday that few, if any, would have guessed at…
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