Parents complain about it every day: today’s kids are growing up faster than ever, with grade-school girls dressing like Britney Spears and boys joining gangs before their age hits double digits. Why is this happening, and what should... Read More

With contemporary combat relatively fresh in memory, this futuristic war, set in Tennessee against alien invaders, is surrealistic, particularly since nuclear weapons are tossed around as if they were hand grenades. However, it can be... Read More

During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush accused Al Gore of being “a thinker.” His reproach of the wonkish Vice President seemed to score points with the electorate. Why? Isn’t thinking a quality Americans would... Read More

This book would make a wonderful movie. A true story of madness and murder aboard an American whaler in 1841, it summons such maritime classics as Mutiny on the Bounty, Billy Budd, and Moby Dick-indeed, Herman Melville himself was aboard... Read More

The author tells a harrowing story of being held in several Japanese prison camps in Java for three years and seven months during World War II. Rentz was the chief radio operator aboard a B-17 bomber when it was shot down by Japanese... Read More

“I grew up in an era in which making wisecracks about women was fairly standard preaching fare, good for a few laughs,” writes the author in her introduction. Although such jokes may no longer be “standard fare” in most pulpits,... Read More

“Any company that gets a union deserves it, and you deserve the one you get.” That statement, made by labor expert Charles Hughes in 1977, typified the anti-union sentiment that has prevailed in America since the mid 1800s. The... Read More

This sexy book could well have been titled The History of Erotic Advertising. The author, advertising professor at the University of Alabama, explores with zest, acuity, and almost suppressed humor the two higher truths of western... Read More