Book Reviews
Book Reviews by David Bruce Smith
Joan Didion's "Let Me Tell You What I Mean"
Washington Independent Review of Books January 2021
Michael J. Fox's "No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality"
Washington Independent Review of Books November 2020
Loretta Lynn and Patsy Lynn Russell's "Me & Patsy Kickin’ Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline"
Washington Independent Review of Books April 2020
P. Carl's "Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition"
Washington Independent Review of Books January 2020
Joe Namath's "All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters"
Washington Independent Review of Books May 2019
Casey Cep's "Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee"
Washington Independent Review of Books May 2019
Gary Sinise with Marcus Brotherton's "Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service"
Washington Independent Review of Books January 2019
Todd Fisher's "My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie"
Washington Independent Review of Books June 2018
Matt Young's "Eat the Apple: A Memoir"
Washington Independent Review of Books February 2018
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 The World & I December 2014
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
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