Thursday, July 10, 2014

Jimmy Fallon's 'Do Not Read' List of Strange Summer Books - July 9, 2014

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Every once in a while, The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon presents his audience with books that he does not recommend.  In fact, he calls i...
Friday, June 13, 2014

Author Interview: Craig Shirley on 'December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World'

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Memorial Day weekend seems an appropriate time to revisit Craig Shirley's 2011 book, December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Sa...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Odd Books: Alaska, Huge Ships, and DADT?

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On The Tonight Show last night, host Jimmy Fallon did a comedy bit involving books with odd titles or subjects. One of the books he featu...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Author Interview: Dale Carpenter on 'Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas'

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Speaking at a book forum sponsored by the Cato Institute on March 16, 2012, Washington Post editorial writer (and former Supreme Court repo...
Friday, May 2, 2014

Author Interview: James Robinson on 'Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty'

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One year ago today, in his first speaking engagement at George Mason University , Harvard political scientist James A. Robinson paid a compl...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Author Interview: Kurt Loder on 'The Good, the Bad and the Godawful: 21st Century Movie Reviews'

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Kurt Loder Just over two years ago, longtime MTV news anchor Kurt Loder published a book-length collection of film criticism entitled Th...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Virginia Festival of the Book 2014 - First Amendment & Free Speech

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At the 2014 Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, there was a panel discussion about freedom of speech sponsored by the Thomas J...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Virginia Festival of the Book 2014 - Stephen Jimenez

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During a Virginia Festival of the Book panel on March 20 called " Shifting Identities " at the Jefferson Madison Regional Library ...

Virginia Festival of the Book 2014 - World War II

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One of the panels at the 2014 Virginia Festival of the Book was called " World War II: Little Known Stories ." It took place on M...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Virginia Festival of the Book 2014 - World Politics

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Last month in Charlottesville, the Virginia Festival of the Book hosted more than 200 programs on a wide range of topics, including authors ...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Author Interview: Jeffrey Frank discusses his 'Ike & Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage'

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Perhaps the most amusing sentence in Jeffrey Frank's book about Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon comes during a discussion of whether an...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Author Interview: Larry Sabato calls John F. Kennedy a cautious and conservative president

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Larry Sabato Last October, Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia moderated a panel discussion about November 22, 1963, featuring th...