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The belated books of 2010: Pulp histories from David Talbot
Jacket CopyTwo puzzling books from 2010: Devil Dog and Shadow Knights, from David Talbot's Pulp History series.... -
Set Pieces: The 'Harry Loves Lisa' house
L.A. at HomeIt's hard not to like "Harry Loves Lisa," the TV Land reality series about actors Harry Hamlin and wife Lisa Rinna. Though there is drama -- he blows auditions and she decides to have a lip reduction -- they are...... -
Book review: 'Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage'
Los Angeles TimesContemporary history is seldom as relevant and engaging as Douglas Waller's new biography, "Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage," which is — by turns — fascinatingly instructive and thoroughly...Tags: Democratic Party, World War I (1914-1918), Armed Conflicts, Joseph P. Kennedy, Douglas MacArthur
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Americans already rethinking George W. Bush; his poll numbers now but one point below Obama's
Top of the TicketAs George Bush book Decision Points comes out, his countrymen are thinking somewhat better of the Republican and less of the Democrat.... -
More good news for Sarah Palin: President Obama doesn't even think about her
Top of the TicketSarah Palin: He's too busy being president, you see, to think about anything as mundane as 2012 politics.... -
Gifts with a Presidents Day twist: Time in office
All The RageJohnny Depp has been stepping out for quite a while now with that proper timepiece: the pocket watch. For instance, he had one tucked in his waistcoat at the People's Choice Awards in January. Many U.S. presidents were known to...... -
Feb. 21, 2011 buzz: Changing views of American prosperity, labor, international influence
Opinion L.A.Most viewed: Susan Jacoby pokes holes in her (frightening) Op-Ed about The nest-egg myth. "This image of prosperous geezers and crones is just not accurate. The notion of an aging population well prepared to take care of itself -- not...... -
Tucson shootings: Mental illness, not rhetoric, at root of more political assassinations historically
Top of the TicketGabrielle Giffords, a Democratic representative, is among the wounded in the Tucson shootings.... -
Ronald Reagan's birth centennial, Part I: Politics came late in his life
Top of the TicketGuest columnist Robert Schmuhl of the University of Notre Dame analyzes the 40th president's political role in modern U.S. history.... -
Gifts: Use Presidents Day as an inspiration for your gift list and go for a tie vote
All The RageAbraham Lincoln was one dapper guy -- even a fashion muse, of sorts, with his trademark black bow tie and top hat. Decades later, Franklin D. Roosevelt used his cravat to make a political style statement, forming the “bow tie...... -
George Washington, in war and peace
Special to the Los Angeles TimesWashington A Life Ron Chernow Penguin Press: 906 pp., $40 On Dec. 14, 1799, an ominous, fog-like gloom hung over Mount Vernon. Sixty-seven-year-old George Washington was dying. The ex-president, his doctors believed, was suffering from "quinsy" (a...Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, John Jay, U.S. Electoral College, Government, Mouth
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William A. Rusher dies at 87; conservative theorist and publisher of National Review
William A. Rusher, a leading theorist and organizer of the modern conservative movement who helped William F. Buckley Jr. build the National Review into one of the American right's most influential journals, died Saturday at a retirement home in San...Tags: Justice System, Sociology, Kolkata (India), Entertainment, Humphrey Bogart
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