THE announcement of Bishop Sarah Mullally as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury aroused inevitable public curiosity about the background and character of the first woman in the 1400-year history of the Church of England…
Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life, by Dan Nadel, Scribner, 480 pages, $35 "In the spring of 1962, an 18-year-old Robert Crumb was beaned in the forehead by a solid glass ashtray. His mother, Bea, had hurled it at his…
THE longest-reigning British monarch by far, Queen Elizabeth II had already lent her name to an era in the minds of broadcasters and writers long before she died at the age of 96. It was hard to think of life without her. Her…
FDR: A New Political Life, by David T. Beito, Open Universe, 400 pages, $29.99 If there were any doubts that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of the greatest scoundrels of American political history, David…
Former Los Angeles Times man Jim Newton, in his book Here Beside the Rising Tide, picked a representative subject through which to judge the achievements and excesses of the 1960s counterculture: Grateful Dead guitarist and…
The Shirelles, an all-black girl group out of New Jersey, had just cracked the Top 40 in September 1960 and needed a follow-up hit. Don Kirshner, impresario of a songwriting factory in Manhattan's Brill Building, gave…
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