Jeremy Beer

Articles & Reviews

Booth Tarkington after the Great War, "That Disquieted and Questioning Time"

In this excerpt from America Moved: Booth Tarkington’s Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869–1928, Tarkington reflects on the changes he observed in America following the end of the Great War.

Salute to A Country Songwriter

The success of Songs of Fox Hollow notwithstanding, Tom T. Hall was not a children’s songwriter. He was simply a writer whose métier happened to be country music.

Ernie Banks’s Life of Sunshine and Shadows

Mister Cub was beloved for his perpetual cheerfulness. He also adopted a child when he was in his late seventies, conducted faux interviews with himself, and once thought seriously about attending clown school.

A Greener Shade of Right

America’s conservative movement was once intimately linked with conservation. So, how did we get from there to where we are now?

 

First Things: Salute to A Country Songwriter

The success of Songs of Fox Hollow notwithstanding, Tom T. Hall was not a children’s songwriter. He was simply a writer whose métier happened to be country music.

National Review: Ernie Banks’s Life of Sunshine and Shadows

Let’s Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks, by Ron Rapoport (Hachette Books, 464 pp., $14.99) and Let’s Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie Banks, by Doug Wilson (Rowman & Littlefield, 272 pp., $24.95)

 

First Things: Salute to A Country Songwriter

The success of Songs of Fox Hollow notwithstanding, Tom T. Hall was not a children’s songwriter. He was simply a writer whose métier happened to be country music.

National Review: Ernie Banks’s Life of Sunshine and Shadows

Let’s Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks, by Ron Rapoport (Hachette Books, 464 pp., $14.99) and Let’s Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie Banks, by Doug Wilson (Rowman & Littlefield, 272 pp., $24.95)

 

First Things: Salute to A Country Songwriter

The success of Songs of Fox Hollow notwithstanding, Tom T. Hall was not a children’s songwriter. He was simply a writer whose métier happened to be country music.

National Review: Ernie Banks’s Life of Sunshine and Shadows

Let’s Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks, by Ron Rapoport (Hachette Books, 464 pp., $14.99) and Let’s Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie Banks, by Doug Wilson (Rowman & Littlefield, 272 pp., $24.95)

 

First Things: Salute to A Country Songwriter

The success of Songs of Fox Hollow notwithstanding, Tom T. Hall was not a children’s songwriter. He was simply a writer whose métier happened to be country music.

National Review: Ernie Banks’s Life of Sunshine and Shadows

Let’s Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks, by Ron Rapoport (Hachette Books, 464 pp., $14.99) and Let’s Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie Banks, by Doug Wilson (Rowman & Littlefield, 272 pp., $24.95)