Winston Groom was an American novelist and historian best known as the author of *Forrest Gump*. He was also a prolific writer of narrative histories, particularly on the world wars, and contributed essays and book reviews to The Weekly Standard covering military history, politics, and culture from 2006 to 2017.
Moonshine always reminds me of the time the great P. J. O’Rourke got hold of a jug of the stuff in college and it caused him to be struck blind. It seems that O’Rourke and some of his buddies in Ohio went down into Kentucky looking for moonshine to bring back for a party that night. He drank from…
Moonshine always reminds me of the time the great P. J. O’Rourke got hold of a jug of the stuff in college and it caused him to be struck blind. It seems that O’Rourke and some of his buddies in Ohio went down into Kentucky looking for moonshine to bring back for a party that night. He drank from…
It is no news that the age of political correctness and revisionist history is upon us, and nowhere is it more apparent than in the subject of slavery and the American Civil War. In the past half-dozen years, literature has appeared condemning the Southern general Robert E. Lee as a traitor,…
Tiny Terror Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered Prayers by William Todd Schultz Oxford, 208 pp., $17.95
The Big Rich
American Lightning
Churchill, Hitler, and the "Unnecessary War"
One of the most cynical political tricks played in the 2004 presidential campaign was the false rumor, started by Democrats, that if George W. Bush was reelected, he secretly planned to reinstate the military draft. Clearly, this was aimed at striking fear into the American student population and…