‘Strong’: one brave Texas Ranger vs. the ‘true America’
Thrillers are one of my favorite genres, but some of the writers in this field tend to be a tad too politically conservative for my taste — it’s not a coincidence that Glenn Beck has had many of these...
View Article‘Venetian Affair’: in praise of Robert Vaughn (& Warner Archive)
The Warner Archive DVD-on-demand operation does a great job of serving fans’ needs for obscure movies both on the high and low ends of the Hollywood scale. The company has brought unjustly neglected...
View Article‘This Town’: quid pro quo makes the world go round
Back before the age of 24/7 political news coverage, there was a very lucrative genre of juicy, inside-Washington novels, starting with the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Advise and Consent” in 1959. Allen...
View Article#FridayReads: ‘Seconds’ by David Ely – horror classic back in print
When I recently wanted to re-read the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestseller “Advise and Consent,” I was surprised to learn that Allen Drury’s 1959 Washington, D.C. novel is out of print in all...
View ArticleA new life for ‘Advise & Consent’ (and other old blockbusters)
Lots of good book news has been converging on me lately. A few days ago, the terrific Florida thriller writer Paul Levine posted on Facebook a Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg piece in The Wall Street Journal...
View Article#FridayReads ‘Mark Coffin, U.S.S.’ by Allen Drury
One of the best pieces of book news this year was the return to print of four novels by the peerless Washington, D.C. chronicler Allen Drury. Drury was hugely popular from the late 1950s through the...
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