James Fenimore Cooper

I'm still swamped, so my list today is somewhat truncated. I figured I'd let you guys do the work. My question is: Who are the best duos in historical fiction? I read a lot of the stuff, so I'll offer......

Let's take a moment to acknowledge actor Adam Sandler's significant contribution to American humor. Not that his early work on “Saturday Night Live” or his numerous films have been particularly amusing, but that his movies have inspired some...

"The Count of Monte Cristo," "The Man in the Iron Mask" and "The Corsican Brothers": Who doesn't love a good swashbuckler, complete with flashing swords, romantic couples and all manner of derring-do? Hen's Tooth Video, which specializes in the hard to...

For the American sailors off Tripoli — five of them from Maryland — it was a suicide mission: Sail the small ship heavy with explosives in among the enemy fleet, set the blast to go off in 15 minutes, jump into lifeboats and get as far away as...

Culture Clash's "Oh, Wild West!" publishes its trilogy of California plays, "Chavez Ravine," "Zorro in Hell!" and "Water & Power," in one volume....

Could hobbits have originated in Kentucky? Was Aragorn, the heroic ranger in the 20th Century’s most popular English novel, modeled indirectly on Kentucky’s best known frontiersman? It’s possible that these ideas are more than fantasy....

"In the old days we sent Christianity to the savage redskin." - The Herald-Star (Steubenville, Ohio) Nov. 26, 1921 "... and the savage redskin was thirsting for their blood ..." - United States Magazine, June, 1855 "On rushed the savages, flushed with...

In one of his lesser known — but still exquisite — books, first published in 1992, David McCullough writes about painter Frederic Remington, an artist who captured the last glimmers of the twilight of the American West of the 19th century, a...

The Greater Journey Americans in Paris David McCullough Simon & Schuster: 560 pp., $37.50 For more than 40 years, David McCullough has brought the past to life in books distinguished by vigorous storytelling and vivid characterizations. He garnered...

Set during the Korean War and the onset of the Cold War, Don Winslow's "Satori," an entertaining, authorized prequel to the bestselling 1979 thriller "Shibumi" by Rodney William Whitaker (who wrote under the pen name Trevanian), is choked with every...

This summer Andre Dawson will become the latest Chicago Cubs legend enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Cubs fans making the trek to Cooperstown, N.Y., for Dawson's induction July 25 should know there is a lot more to the upstate New York...

Note: Larry's Daily Mirror posts this year focus on clips from 1920 and 1960, so I will be watching movies from those years and writing about them on alternate weeks. After last week’s post on Roger Corman’s “The Little Shop of Horrors,� Mr....