"Why he was esteemed as an Indian fighter is puzzling. None of his frontier campaigns demonstrated particular skill or insight. Not that they were botched, just that his strategy could not be called brilliant.... He could be likened more to an actor than to a playwright. Invariably he gives the impression of a man on … Continue reading No one knew Custer better than Connell
Category: Myth general
A frustrated failure and his masterpiece: new in bookstores
Dan Brown thinks he knows Leonardo's secrets; so does Javier Serra and plenty of other novelists; but it's Ross King who's the true authority. With "Leonardo and 'The Last Supper' " (Walker & Company), he reveals the real circumstances -- minus all that business about Mary Magdalene and the Priory of Sion -- that led … Continue reading A frustrated failure and his masterpiece: new in bookstores
Etc.: early Saramago, plus Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ meets poet Ted Hughes
JOSE VS. THE MAN: Back in 1980, 18 years before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Jose Saramago was a newspaper deputy editor who got canned from his job (nobody treats deputy editors right, do they?). He penned a big, fat novel that lets us know exactly how he was feeling, "Raised from the … Continue reading Etc.: early Saramago, plus Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ meets poet Ted Hughes
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