Articles from The American Conservative (December 1, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
[Cartoon].		Cartoon	25
All in the family.			290
Ayn shrugged: objectively speaking, Rand's opus is a literary disaster.	Hannan, Daniel		1769
Burning rubber: Fordlandia: the rise and fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin: Henry Ford's jungle book.	Waugh, Septimus		1287
Caught in the rye.	Reid, Stuart		804
Chosen people: The Israel test by George Gilder: how to atone for being a WASP.	McConnell, Scott		1608
Founding traitor: an artist in treason: the extraordinary double life of General James Wilkinson by Andro Linklater: the treasonous, glamorous life of agent 13.	Crawford, Alan Pell		1687
Free speech at a price.			299
Friendly ghosts.	Kauffman, Bill		775
Kristol reflections: how the neocon godfather rewrote the American right.	McCarthy, Daniel		2130
Lives less ordinary: no one wants to read about writers diligently scribbling in lonely garrets. Bring on the addictions, the affairs.	Leith, Sam		2409
Mad money.			371
Party favors: conservative bestsellers run long on celebrity but short on ideas.	Carney, John		1874
Perpetual feast: Hemingway's final book showcases his mastery.	Theodoracopulos, Taki		968
Postmodern fogey: hiding man: a biography of Donald Barthelme by Tracy Daugherty maintaining traditionalist ties can be the ultimate countercultural act.	McKie, Andrew		1701
Scholar among rakes: Macaulay communes across the generations.	Stove, R.J.		1839
Scripting scripture.			231
Shelf life.	Tushnet, Eve		818
The best books you haven't read ...			4088
The dangers of literacy: millions of readers create a market for mediocrity.	Nock, Albert Jay		1272
The ice pick cometh: Trotsky: a biography by Robert Service: a new biography of Trotsky avoids the romanticism of earlier chroniclers and is poorer for it.	Stone, Norman		2278
The lettered reactionary: John Lukacs is a writer first, a teacher second, a follower never.	Rodden, John; Rossi, John		2455
Tracking Tocqueville: God is dead, but my hair is perfect.	Levy, Bernard-Henri		1055
Turning the pixels: will kindle replace books? Don't bet on it.	Rittelmeyer, Helen		798
Untenured radical: What Are Intellectuals Good For? by George Scialbba: clearing space for the utopian imagination.	Allitt, Patrick		1862