Jack Riccardi

You could argue that the most destructive war in history was the result of not understanding with whom you picked the fight. Nineteen forty-one-era US and Japan misread each other’s intentions and capablities, leading to four-plus years of death and misery, and in the end, victory and peace weren’t just due to valor and productivity, but also who had a better grasp of the other. Which brings us to Robert Harvey’s ambitious book “American Shogun: Gen.

Do we have a definition of “summer reading”? Is it like “summer blockbusters” in the movies, full of big-name stars and action? Or is it just whatever we bring to the beach, the pool, the patio, the plane?

A dynamic, history-making president is targeted in Washington, D.C. by an addle-brained, obsessed assailant. Last Saturday, President Trump, his cabinet, and the assembled press people, survived unscathed, at the Washington Hilton. Just days earlier, I had finally read “Destiny of the Republic: Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of the President” by Candice Millard (2011).