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Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘After Elizabeth: Can the Monarchy Save Itself?’
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Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Blind Man’s Bluff: A Memoir’
August 18, 2021
•Some memoirs flicker like fireflies on a summer night. Others pierce your psyche with their subjects’ tortured experiences, consequent miseries and — finally — their oh-so-glorious survival. “The Story of […]
The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
July 14, 2021
•THIS OTHERWISE INFORMATIVE HISTORY IS HAMSTRUNG BY ITS FIXATION ON SYLVIA PLATH’S NOTORIOUS SUICIDE Back in the day (circa 1930 – 1960), small-town girls with big-city dreams headed for New […]
‘Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause’
June 21, 2021
•WITH SEARING HONESTY, A RETIRED SOLDIER/PROFESSOR COMES TO TERMS WITH HIS LIFELONG WORSHIP OF A TRAITOR Early in the Civil War, the Union Army seized “Arlington” — Robert E. Lee’s […]
‘The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915’
May 17, 2021
•A DENSELY WRITTEN, FACT-PACKED ACCOUNT OF A PIVOTAL PERIOD IN U.S. HISTORY “The Age of Acrimony” is an apt title for the combustible years from 1865 to 1915, when, according […]
Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘1957: The Year That Launched the American Future’
April 15, 2021
•Former NBC and Fox News correspondent Eric Burns divides his 15th book into five parts, the most important being on race, the cutting issue of our times then and now.
‘Widowish: A Memoir’
March 10, 2021
•In this very personal narrative of joy, grief and recovery, author Melissa Gould struggles with the loss of her husband and the category it suddenly puts her in.
‘Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup’
April 6, 2019
•WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A NEFARIOUS STARTUP PLAYS GAMES WITH PEOPLE’S HEALTH? As a little girl, Elizabeth Anne Holmes was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up. “I want […]