Book Reviews

First Duty: A Review

In an age of iron triangles and revolving doors, impossible-to-audit defense budgets and “national security professionals,” does the quality and character of the middle-aged man…


Mark My Words: A Review

In his new book Mark My Words: Reflections, Reminiscences and Recollections from a Life Well Lived, Dartmouth Class of 1953 Mark H. Smoller is able to walk the fine line of an impactful memoir for a targeted Dartmouth audience.


Accountable: A Review

My reading of Warren Valdmanis and Michael O’Leary’s Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism, could not have come at a better time. Valdmanis, a Dartmouth…



The Wrong Kind of Woman: A Review

When I first pulled my advanced reader copy of Sarah McCraw Crow’s most recent (and, as I would come to learn, first) novel from the…