Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Ninth Street Women’ 
• December 11, 2024

Curling up with a hefty book of almost 1,000 pages — dense with footnotes, endnotes, acknowledgments, an index and a bibliography — is like cuddling a St. Bernard: a challenging […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club : ‘John Lewis: A Life’ 
• November 13, 2024

A masterful biography is like a shooting star. It’s a celestial phenomenon that lights up the night sky and bestows a sense of wonder and excitement. Such a sensation occurs […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage’  
• October 9, 2024

 A Trump apologist values at least some of the U.S. Constitution.   Jonathan Turley road-tested an idea last year with a 45-page article entitled “The Right to Rage: Free Speech and […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion’  
• September 11, 2024

A tour-de-force look at the doyennes of designer couture.   Given that women are the biggest buyers of books in America, and that the country boasts the largest apparel market in […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President’ 
• August 14, 2024

Edward F. O’Keefe argues that five women provided the ballast of Roosevelt’s life.   The huge granite sculpture startles tourists. Looming like a ferocious behemoth — intimidating, almost frightening — the […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: Bill Maher’s ‘What This Comedian Said Will Shock You’  
• July 17, 2024

The ‘Real Time’ host writes his best book to date.    This is a smart book with a dumb title.   Bill Maher dedicates “What This Comedian Said Will Shock You” to […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: Thinkin’ in the Bardo
  
• June 12, 2024

George Saunders did not want his tombstone to read: “Here lies a guy who never did what he wanted to do.” So in 2017, at the age of 59, having […]

‘An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s’  
• May 8, 2024

Reviewed by Kitty Kelley   An exquisite ode to a pivotal decade in America.   The Bible’s “Parable of the Talents” (Matthew 25:14-30) instructs on how to live a worthwhile life. A […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: You Can Rest in Peace in Georgetown, If You Can Afford It   
• April 10, 2024

If you live in Georgetown, you can sin and be saved in the same zip code. Bars and bistros border the 12 square blocks of this historic area, which also […]

Kitty Kelley: ‘The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians’  
• March 13, 2024

A witty, mostly winning compilation of columnist Carlos Lozada’s previous work.   It takes journalistic bravado to republish old columns and present them as timely or even worth rereading. The feat […]