Dexter Filkins
Prize-winning foreign correspondent
Alain de Botton
Best-selling author and philosopher
Lori Ettlinger Gross on Martha
Lori Ettlinger Gross, author of Brooches: Timeless Adornment, will be on The Martha Stewart Show on Monday, February 8th at 11 am EST on NBC. Tune in to watch Lori display some of the most romantic jewelry from the nineteenth…
JOKER ONE and THE FOREVER WAR Among “The Best Military Books of the Decade”
From the Military Times— “Joker One: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership and Brotherhood” by Donovan Campbell, 2009. This is “sweat-soaked, blood-soaked reality,” written by a Princeton and Harvard graduate and Afghanistan veteran who talks about managing warriors and himself. The story is a first-rate study of management and manhood. Campbell’s platoon taught him that “love was expressed in the only currency that mattered in combat: Action.”
Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres Joins the RHSB
We are thrilled to have recently added 5-time Olympic swimmer, Dara Torres, to our ever-growing roster. Torres, who won three silver medals at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, is the author of Age is Just a Number. In it,…