“Dolores Hitchens’s Fools’ Gold starts out with three young delinquents who think they’re smart, coming up with the kind of caper so stupid only the young could have dreamed it up. Then they make the mistake of letting a really bad…
“A marvelous and much-needed single-volume collection of the writings of America’s greatest Chief Justice, selected by the scholar who knows him best.”—Gordon Wood, author of Empire of Liberty
“Nancy Hale’s prose is controlled, her sense of place precise and vivid. She had the gift of making places resonate behind her characters, and become a part of them.”—Mary Lee Settle
“. . . James was incapable of observing a distinction between the scientist’s ‘facts’ and the philosopher’s ‘values.’ He thought that every choice we make, including the choice to be…