Book Reviews

Book Reviews by David Bruce Smith

David McCullough's "The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For"
Washington Independent Review of Books - April 2017
Judy Collins's "Cravings: How I Conquered Food"
Washington Independent Review of Books - March 2017
Patricia Bosworth's "The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan"
Washington Independent Review of Books - February 2017
Tippi Hedren's "Tippi: A Memoir"
Washington Independent Review of Books - November 2016
Barbara Cook's "Then & Now: A Memoir" with Tom Santopietro
Washington Independent Review of Books - June 2016
Toni Tennille's "Toni Tennille: A Memoir" with Caroline Tennille St. Clair
Washington Independent Review of Books - March 2016
Elizabeth Brown Pryor's "Clara Barton: Professional Angel"
The Gettysburg Compiler - February 2016
Herman Wouk's "Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author"
Washington Independent Review of Books - December 2015
David McCullough's "The Wright Brothers"
Washington Independent Review of Books - May 2015
Candice Bergen's "A Fine Romance: A Memoir"
Washington Independent Review of Books - April 2015
Asia Booth Clarke's "John Wilkes Booth: A Sister’s Memoir"; Edited by Terry Alford
The Gettysburg Compiler - January 2015
Anjelica Huston's "Watch Me: A Memoir"
Washington Independent Review of Books - December 2014
Richard Zoglin's "Hope: Entertainer of the Century"
Washington Independent Review of Books - November 2014 & December 2014 Issue of The World & I
Marja Mills's "The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee"
Washington Independent Review of Books - August 2014
Diane Keaton's "Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty"
Washington Independent Review of Books - June 2014
Jeff Shaara’s “A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of The Battle of Shiloh”
The Gettysburg Compiler - March 2014
Penelope Lively's "Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir"
Washington Independent Review of Books - February 2014
Anjelica Huston's "A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London and New York"
Washington Independent Review of Books - December 2013
Linda Ronstadt's "Simple Dreams"
Washington Independent Review of Books - September 2013
Maya Angelou's "Mom & Me & Mom"
Washington Independent Review of Books - May 2013
Louisa Hall's "The Carriage House"
Washington Independent Review of Books - April 2013
Ann Beattie’s "Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life"
The Chestertown Spy - January 2013
Christopher Tilghman’s "The Right-Hand Shore"
The Chestertown Spy - November 2012
Martin J. Smith’s "The Wild Duck Chase: Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest"
The Chestertown Spy - October 2012
Sam Staggs’ “Inventing Elsa Maxwell: How an Irrepressible Nobody Conquered High Society, Hollywood, the Press, and the World”
Washington Independent Review of Books - October 2012
James Marten's "Sing Not War: The Lives of Union & Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America"
The Gettysburg Compiler - September 2012
James M. Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice"
The Chestertown Spy - September 2012
Thomas Mallon's "Watergate: A Novel"
The Chestertown Spy - August 2012
James M. Cain’s "Double Indemnity"
The Chestertown Spy - August 2012
Jewish Stories from the Revolutionary War
The American Revolution Center - May 2012, The Jewish Home Magazine - June 2012, The Chestertown Spy - August 2012
Boyd Gibbons’s "Wye Island: The True Story of an American Community’s Struggle to Preserve its Way of Life"
The Chestertown Spy - April 2012
Stan Salett's "The Edge of Politics: Stories from the Civil Rights Movement, the War on Poverty and the Challenges of School Reform"
The Chestertown Spy - March 2012
Jill Ogline Titus's "Brown's Battleground: Students, Segregationists & the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia"
The Chestertown Spy - February 2012
John Barth's "A Novel in Five Seasons"
The Chestertown Spy - January 2012
Joan Didion's "Blue Nights"
The Chestertown Spy - November 2011
Peter Manseau's "Songs for the Butcher's Daughter"
The Chestertown Spy - November 2011
Joshua Kendall's "The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture"
The Chestertown Spy - September 2011
Christopher Sten's "Literary Capital"
GW Magazine - Fall 2011
Edward Berkowitz's "Mass Appeal: The Formative Age of the Movies, Radio, and TV"
GW Magazine - Fall 2011
Alice Ozma's "The Reading Promise"
The Chestertown Spy - July 2011