— Book review by Jens Kruse — Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, Pulitzer Prize winningjournalists at the Washington Post, have written an important book about the three plus years between Trump’s acceptance of the Republican nomination in July of 2016 and the opening of the impeachment inquiry. At the end … Continue reading
— Book Review by Jens Kruse — This novel, Mephisto, by Klaus Mann, the second child of the better-known German novelist Thomas Mann, was written in 1936 while Klaus Mann, persecuted by the Nazis, was living in exile in Amsterdam, and first published there. Later in 1936, Klaus Mann emigrated … Continue reading
— Book review by Jens Kruse — On New Year’s Day, 2013, Gene Weingarten – two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer for The Washington Post – steps into the Old Ebbitt Grill in Washington, D.C. with an old green fedora in his hand. From it, in three successive drawings, … Continue reading
— from Jens Kruse — Nearly 35 years after she published The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood has published a sequel: The Testaments. The two novels are similar in some respects, yet different in others. Both end with an epilogue in which the texts that make up the body of the … Continue reading
— book review by Jens Kruse — In May of 2019, a mere eight months after the publication of her monumental history of the United States, These Truths (which I recently reviewed in this space: orcasissues.com/kruse-reviews-these-truths-by-jill-lepore/), Jill Lepore followed up with This America. The Case for the Nation. If you … Continue reading
— Book review from Jens Kruse — Jill Lepore, the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a prolific staff writer at The New Yorker, has written a one-volume history of the United States that is important and timely. The structure of her narrative is … Continue reading
— from Jens Kruse — There once lived, at a series of temporary addresses across the United States of America, a travelling man of Indian origin, advancing years, and retreating mental powers, who, on account of his love for mindless television, had spent far too much of his life in … Continue reading
— Book review by Jens Kruse — Garrett M. Graff, a journalist and historian, has just published what is the must-read account of 9/11/01, The Only Plane in the Sky. Published one day before September 11 of 2019, it is an oral history of that momentous and horrendous day 18 … Continue reading
— Book review by Jens Kruse — Larry Diamond opens his book Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition and American Complacency (New York: Penguin Press, 2019) with the scene when, two days before the November 2016 election, he and 20 of his students attend a theatrical adaptation … Continue reading
— A book review by Jens Kruse — This Thursday, June 6, 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. By way of remembrance and commemoration I read and would like to review for you two recent accounts of this momentous moment and phase of … Continue reading
