Featured Reviews

Come Back Dead (1997) - Terence Faherty  (Grade:B+)

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Rebecca (1938) - Daphne du Maurier  (Grade:A)

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Pay-Off in Blood (1962) - Brett Halliday  (Grade:B)

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Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (2004) - Derrick A. Bell, Jr  (Grade:B+)

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Christmas at Thompson Hall (1877) - Anthony Trollope  (Grade:A-)

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Hollow (short story) (1982) - Breece D'J Pancake  (Grade:B)

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A Political Philosophy of Conservatism: Prudence, Moderation and Tradition (Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition) (2021) - Ferenc Horcher  (Grade:A-)

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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017) - Timothy Snyder  (Grade:B+)

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A Republic, If You Can Keep It (2019) - Neil McGill Gorsuch  (Grade:A-)

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The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1991) - Gordon S. Wood  (Grade:A)

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

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F1; The Movie (2025) - Joseph Kosinski  (Grade:A+)

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Phantom Thread (2017) - Paul Thomas Anderson  (Grade:A-)

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The Apostle (1997) - Robert Duvall  (Grade:A)

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Brothers Judd Daily

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Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) was born in Naples, Italy on February 25, 1873.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was born in Limoges, France on February 25, 1841.

Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) Manchester, ENG on February 25, 1917. Read Orrin's review of A Clockwork Orange (1962)(Grade: A+)

Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-) was born in Hanau, Germany on February 24, 1786.

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was born in Boston, MA on February 24, 1836.

John Peter "Honus" Wagner (1874-1955) was born in Mansfield (Carnegie), PA on February 24, 1874.

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) was born in Halle, Germany on February 23, 1685.

W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (1868-1963) was born in Barrington, MA on February 23, 1868. Brothers Judd recommends The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was born in in Chicago, IL on February 23, 1875. Read Orrin's review of Tarzan of the Apes (1912)(Grade: A+)

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), famed Diarist, was born in London, ENG on February 23, 1633.

George Washington (1732-99) was born in Bridge's Creek, Westmoreland County, VA on February 22, 1732. Read Orrin's review of Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace (1997)(George Washington 1732-1799)(edited and with notes by Richard Brookhiser) (Grade: A)

W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-73) was born in Yorkshire, ENG on February 21, 1907.

Richard Matheson (1926-) was born in Allendale, NJ on February 20, 1926. Read Orrin's review of I Am Legend (1954) (Richard Matheson 1926-).

Pierre Boulle (1912-1994) was born in Avignon, France on February 20, 1912. Read Orrin's review of The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952)(Grade: A+) and Planet of the Apes (1963)(Pierre Boulle 1912-1994)(translated by Xan Fielding)(Grade: A)

Ansel Adams (1902-84) was born in San Francisco, CA on February 20, 1902.

Anais Nin (1903-77) was born in Neuilly, France on February 20, 1903.

Carson McCullers (1917-67) was born in Columbus, GA on February 19, 1917. Read Orrin's review of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)(Grade: D)(#17 on the Modern Library List of the Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century)

Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) was born in Torun, Poland on February 19, 1473

Wallace Stegner (1909-93) was born on February 18, 1909. Read Orrin's review of Angle of Repose (1971)(Grade: C)