Posts by: Robert Chambers

The Bully, the Buddy, and the Populist Press

May, 2014 | by

Doris Kearns Goodwin is America’s most popular active historian. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (1995),…

Remembering Roger Ebert

Nov, 2013 | by

“We know more, much more, about Marilyn Monroe and Jack Nicholson than we know about Julius Caesar and Thomas Jefferson. We know what they looked like when they stood up…

The Greatest: Facing Ted Williams

Jul, 2013 | by

View image | gettyimages.com In his very funny Foreword to this book, Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs states that his fellow Red Sox idol Ted Williams “is who John…