We have become accustom to former presidents writing their memoirs, establishing the presidential library and undertaking a good cause...

Legislatures are in session, the president is poised to deliver the State of the Union and we just marked the 50th anniversary of JFK’s...

Before Richard Ben Cramer, the campaign political book genre was dominated by the great Theodore White and his remarkable Making of the...

The 60’ish woman across the table instantly became animated. “Unbroken,” she said, referring to Laura Hillenbrand’s new and widely...

The Lonely Planet guidebook recent published a Top 10 list of the world’s greatest bookstores. (I’m happy to say I’ve browsed in three of...

Sheridan County, Montana borders on North Dakota to the east and the Canadian prairie province of Saskatchewan to the north. It is about...

Boise State University’s aspiring football team is finding that the old truism holds regarding its national standing, as well. Boise...

Unfortunately there is a long history of humans believing they can destroy ideas by burning the books that contain those ideas. The...

By 1919, Butte, Montana had fully made the transition from mining camp to industrial city. It is no exaggeration to say that the copper...

Most students of 20th Century American history know that the 18th Amendment to the Constitution – Prohibition – helped spawn the rise of...

I’ve always had a soft spot for Stephen Ambrose the author of Undaunted Courage, the book that did more than anything, I think, to bring...

For much of the 1950’s and 1960’s, this photo – Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin together at Yalta in February 1945 – served as the iconic...

J.D. Salinger (left) might have become the greatest American writer of the post-war period, but opted out of fame and as the New York...

The old comic Rodney Dangerfield’s signature line – “I can’t get no respect” – can no longer realistically be applied to the big time...

It is the time of year for lists of the “best of” of 2009, a year that may go down in memory as not leaving all that much to recommend...

A fine series of articles focused on a smarter approach to wild land fire management is rolling out this week in the Arizona Daily Star....

As I noted in this space a while back, Tim Egan’s new book – The Big Burn – is a winner both as western (especially Idaho) history and as...

Kim Barnes, the supremely gifted writer who teaches at the University of Idaho in Moscow, has joined rare company indeed – and she...

The bicentennial of the birth of the 16th President of the United States has found Holzer lecturing, often several times a week, from...

At one time or another, most great books – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Catch 22, The Grapes of Wrath to name three – have been...