PositiveAir MailFrank and lively ... An ingeniously conceived and elegantly executed dual portrait of Jennie Churchill and Sara Roosevelt ... Gray’s clever biographical construct has its limitations. There is no record of the two women ever meeting ... Happily, Gray makes little attempt to write around these problems, instead letting each woman be the central character in her own distinct drama.
Darrell Hartman
RaveAir MailExciting and impressively researched ... Hartman’s book conjures an age when newspapers went to the earth’s far edges in search of stories that evoked deep longings of the soul. The pursuit of those stories brought great risk and sometimes great disgrace.
Rebecca Boggs Roberts
PositiveAir MailCarefully researched ... Edith’s own White House record, as Roberts’s book ably shows, is above all a testament to her fierce devotion.
Shahan Mufti
PositiveAir Mail... fascinating and meticulously researched ... Mufti makes a convincing case for its broader significance ... provides a nuanced portrait of Khaalis, the Hanafi leader whose grand ambitions give the book its title ... in Mufti’s capable hands, it has made for a haunting book.
James Kirchick
RaveAir Mail... engrossing, important ... an 800-page tour de force, certainly the most comprehensive history of gay Washington ever written. It’s also more than that. Tracing the strand of how the capital’s big shots treated gays across the decades, Kirchick provides a compelling account of how the bloodless, brutal Washington power game has always worked.
