Keith Urbahn on conservatives and publishing
This week’s edition of Coffee and Markets, has Pejman Yousefzadeh and I talking with Keith Urbahn, former chief of staff to Donald Rumsfeld, to discuss hi...
Year: 2012
Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions: Farnsworth's Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863 by Eric J. Wittenberg
I recently read another book from one of my favorite Civil War authors, Eric Wittenberg. His latest book, Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry Actions, is a re...
The Flatey Enigma by Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson and translated by Brian Fitzgibbon
The word that comes to mind after reading Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson’s The Flatey Enigma is odd. Not necessarily odd in a bad way. I say odd because it is...
Jay Cost on the Politics of Patronage
On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and I are joined by Jay Cost to discuss his book Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corr...
Ross Douthat on Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
This week’s edition of Coffee & Markets features New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, author of Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, an...
A Hero for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi
I was intrigued by The Search for WondLa by its unique combination of illustrations and story. I have a hard time resisting well packaged books that offer crea...