Books by Charles Van Doren and Complete Book Reviews
Charles Van Doren, Author Ballantine Books $16.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-345-37316-8
Van Doren's provocative, encyclopedic guide to great thinkers, concepts and philosophical trends was a BOMC and History Book Club selection in cloth. (Apr.)
READ FULL REVIEW
Charles Van Doren, Author Citadel Press $24.95 (422p) ISBN 978-1-55972-037-3
Van Doren has a gift for the felicitous turn of phrase. On photography: ``The camera catches us in the act of being human.'' On Marxism: ``More than a billion persons are ruled in the name of something that does not yet and may never exist.'' A...
READ FULL REVIEW
Charles Van Doren. CreateSpace, $14 paper (262p) ISBN 978-1-4849-8964-7
The stratified society of turbulent 13th-century Italy is the backdrop against which the love story of swineherd Giovanni's son Benno and aristocratic Nina Torreoni develops, in this first installment in a historical series. Exiled from their home...
READ FULL REVIEW