Don Jordan, Author, Michael Walsh, Author . New York Univ. $18.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8147-4296-9
High school American history classes present indentured servitude as a benignly paternalistic system whereby colonial immigrants spent a few years working off their passage and went on to better things. Not so, this impassioned history argues: the...
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Michael Walsh, Author . Warner $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-446-51815-4
By turns fascinating and familiar, Walsh's third novel (after Exchange Alley
and As Time Goes By) is a fictionalized account of the life of Owen Madden, the so-called "Irish Godfather," who became an organized crime giant during the...
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Michael Walsh, Author ABRAMS $50.9 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8109-1275-5
There is a fairy-tale quality about this biography, for despite persistent negative reviews and accusations of plagiarism, Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose ability to make money may exceed his talent for making music, has risen to the top with Jesus...
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Michael Walsh. Warner Books, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-446-52069-0
JFK assassination buffs will enjoy bushwhacking their way through this labyrinthine debut. Young Danish cultural attache Egil Ekdahl--engaged in hawking the KGB's file on Lee Harvey Oswald to the highest bidder--turns up murdered in a particularly...
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Richard Schickel, Author, Michael Walsh, Author, Michael Walsh, Photographer ABRAMS $49.5 (263p) ISBN 978-0-8109-0773-7
This is a lavish picture book, designed to celebrate the centenary of New York's celebrated concert hall, and it fills that souvenir function well enough. Schickel, movie critic at Time, previously wrote a much longer book on the hall and has the...
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Michael Walsh, Author Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company $30 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8028-2109-6
Many people know that Franciscans are kind to animals and Benedictines are renowned for their hospitality, receiving every guest as they would receive Christ. But what about Christian orders that are famous not for such dove-like pacifism, but for...
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Michael Walsh. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-21708-0
Novelist and former National Review columnist Walsh (The Fiery Angel) chronicles 17 battles fought against overwhelming odds in this bellicose account. Declaring war “a masculine engagement, undertaken on behalf of females and children—in large...
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Don Jordan and Michael Walsh. Pegasus, $28.95 (374p) ISBN 978-1-60598-969-3
In this balanced narrative, Jordan and Walsh (White Cargo) contextualize the reign of Charles II (1630–1685) in light of his numerous mistresses, arguing that his aversion to conflict allowed them to influence policy, helped bankrupt the country,...
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Don Jordan and Michael Walsh. Pegasus, $27.95 (408p) ISBN 978-1-68177-168-7
Jordan and Walsh follow The King’s Bed with a further examination of the Merry Monarch’s English court, this time focusing on Charles II’s mission to find the parties responsible for the execution of Charles I. Charles II reveled in his court, which
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Michael Walsh. Encounter, $25.99 (280p) ISBN 978-1-59403-945-4
Walsh (The Devil’s Pleasure Palace), former music critic at Time, discusses nearly 100 musical, artistic, and literary works, from the epic of Gilgamesh to a Tom Wolfe novel, to illustrate “the soul of the West” and how it supposedly is threatened....
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