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 in […]
Michael J. Neufeld, Von Braun: Dreamer o...
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. Why? […]