Articles by Harold K. Bush Jr.

Books

The Power of Habit

Why We Do What We Do
in Life and Business

By Charles Duhigg

The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg

Mar 25, 2013 reviewed by Harold K. Bush Jr.

Charles Duhigg's book will remind readers of Malcolm Gladwell's best work. It represents the best "popular brain science" genre can offer.

Books

Why Read Moby-Dick?

By Nathaniel Philbrick

Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick

Jun 01, 2012 reviewed by Harold K. Bush Jr.

The title of Nathaniel Philbrick’s slim new meditation foregrounds the questions at the heart of every assignment made by every English teacher: Why read this book? Or that book? For that matter, why do we assign reading in the first place?

Books

God’s Arbiters

Americans and the Philippines, 1898–1902

By Susan K. Harris

God’s Arbiters, by Susan K. Harris

Sep 23, 2011 reviewed by Harold K. Bush Jr.

Once upon a time, there was a large, wealthy and powerful country that wanted to help a smaller, struggling, powerless country find a pathway into a more stable, democratic, freedom-loving and civilized future.

Books

Autobiography of Mark Twain

Volume 1

Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith et al

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

May 23, 2011 reviewed by Harold K. Bush Jr.

To commemorate the 100-year anni­versary of Mark Twain's death, a crack team of editors at the massive Mark Twain Project at the University of California-Berkeley, headed by Harriet Elinor Smith, has produced the first of three volumes of the definitive Auto­biography of Mark Twain. It quickly rose to the top of the best-seller lists.

Books

The Lost Symbol

Dan Brown

Occult attraction

Dec 15, 2009 reviewed by Harold K. Bush Jr.
Dan Brown’s latest megablockbuster exposes aspects of our current spiritual morass in several ways.
Features

Grief work

After a child dies
Dec 11, 2007 by Harold K. Bush Jr.
When my wife and I see news reports about the deaths of young people, as we did after the grisly slaughter at Virginia Tech last April, we inevitably think back to June 1999, when we lost our son, Daniel. He was a healthy, jovial and playful boy, and his sudden, unexpected death was devastating.