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What would Theodore Roosevelt--the author of the quotation above, which is the inspiration for this column--have made of Barack Obama? I'm not sure he would have liked him very much. T.R. was more a McCain sort of guy: blustery and passionate, valuing emotion over precision. But our...
Kanha: Many wildlife lovers consider Kanha, a sprawling sanctuary in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, to be the great Indian forest. Said to be the place that inspired Rudyard Kipling to write The Jungle Book, Kanha's bamboo and sal groves are home to tigers, deer, bison, snakes...
Divisadero, his latest book, starts as the story of Anna and Claire, two sisters growing up on a ranch in California with their father and an orphaned boy named Coop. The sisters later develop an almost pathological competitiveness and Claire loses out: Anna gets Coop. Then the father discovers Coop...
The Dangerous Book, bound in an Edwardian red cover with marbled endpapers, has many of the timeless qualities of an ideal young man: curiosity, bravery and respectfulness; just enough rogue to leaven the stoic; an appetite for any challenge, from hunting small game to mastering the rules of grammar. It...
Marketed in boardrooms, convention centers, basketball arenas and political rallies, the name Giuliani (pronounced ka-ching!) has been used to sell concepts like public safety, the repair of bankrupt companies and the ability, as Kipling put it, to keep your head when all about you are losing theirs. In a...