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Book Review: ‘Ballad of the Green Beret: The Life and Wars of Staff Sergeant...

Some songs are justly characterized as “era defining.” Far more rare are songs that delineate the end of a time period in history. Yet there’s a strong argument that “The Ballad of the Green Berets” is...

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Book Review: ‘Banana George’ by The Blair Family

Banana George: Don’t Wait for Life to Happen, Make It Happen is the biography of one of the most inspiring and colorful celebrities of recent years. Written by the Blair family (his wife and daughters)...

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Book Review: ‘Getting Unstuck’ by Esther Bleuel

Esther Bleuel’s new book Getting Unstuck is an amalgamation of memoir and personal development, the one supporting the other. In twelve chapters, Esther describes her life story, from a father who...

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Book Tour: ‘Becoming’ by Michelle Obama

Earlier this month, Michelle Obama kicked off a book tour to promote her memoir, Becoming. Her tour includes two stops at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. My article focuses on her November 17...

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Book Tour: Andrew Roberts, Author of ‘Churchill: Walking with Destiny’

Earlier this month, the National Churchill Library and Center (NCLC) welcomed historian and bestselling author Andrew Roberts for a talk on his latest book about U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill,...

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Book Review: ‘Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse’ by Anahid Nersessian

Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse, by Anahid Nersessian, and published by the University of Chicago Press, is an ode to both the poetry and the poet himself. Anyone who has even taken one general...

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Book Review: ‘Leon Russell’ by Bill Janovitz – Illuminating One of Rock’s...

Leon Russell (1942-2016), a brilliant songwriter and arranger and a pianist supreme, was in the early 1970s the very archetype of a rock star. Then he slid into relative obscurity for decades, until...

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Book and Music Reviews: ‘Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine,’ plus the Third...

God knows, no shortage exists of books devoted to Bob Dylan and his music. There are album-by-album critiques, songbooks, scholarly works, biographies, and a memoir, along with other writings from the...

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Music and Book Reviews: Wonder Women of Country, plus Thee Sinseers, Matt...

This column rarely covers EPs—the unending flood of full-length CDs is more than enough to keep a critic busy—but a six-song set called Wonder Women of Country: Willis, Carper, Leigh is too good to...

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Music and Book Reviews: A Joe Meek Anthology, an Arthur Lee/Love Biography,...

A Joe Meek Anthology Focuses on 1962 Recordings Most music producers remain relatively unknown and must content themselves with credit lines on the CDs they oversee. A few, though, develop styles so...

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