by Site Owner | Sep 7, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
By Francine Mathews Riverhead Books, $26.95, 361 pages History places a young Jack Kennedy in Europe in 1939, doing research for his senior thesis at Harvard. Author Francine Mathews braids him into a plot so tightly woven around actual people and places it feels...
by Site Owner | Aug 15, 2012 | Writers on Writing
Borrowing From the Dead By Francine Mathews A long time ago, before I was a journalist or an intelligence analyst or the mother of two boys, I was a graduate student in History atStanfordUniversity. As part of the ordeal that was my third year, I was expected to do...
