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Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul (NY: Knopf, 2008)

July 15, 2009
By Kevin R. Kosar
Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul (NY: Knopf, 2008)

An Authoritative But Imperfect Biography, by Kevin R. Kosar, January 12, 2009 French has produced a very thorough review of V.S. Naipaul’s life and writing career. Anyone with a real taste for Naipaul’s work will find it both interesting and illuminating. My two gripes about this book are that French seems loath to engage...
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Michael J. Neufeld, Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (NY: Knopf, 2007)

July 15, 2009
By Kevin R. Kosar
Michael J. Neufeld, Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (NY: Knopf, 2007)

Well Researched, But Not Really a Biography, by Kevin R. Kosar, November 2, 2007 Neufeld should be cheered for the astonishing amount of research he undertook to produce this hefty tome. The author may know more about the history of rocketry than any other person on earth. Yet, I didn’t much like this book....
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Non-Fiction: Kathryn A. Jacob, King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age (2010).

Non-Fiction: Philip Terzian, Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century (2010).

Fiction: David Lodge, Thinks (2001)

Non-Fiction: Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service, 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition (2010)

Non-Fiction: Christopher Buckley, Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir (2009)

Non-Fiction: Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster (2007)

Fiction: John Le Carre A Most Wanted Man (2008)

Fiction: John Le Carre Our Game (1995)

Fiction: John Le Carre The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)

Fiction: Peter DeVries Into Your Tent I'll Creep (1971)

Fiction: Peter DeVries Peckham's Marbles (1986)

Fiction: Georges Simenon Three Beds in Manhattan (1964)

Fiction: Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day (1988)