February 2009 Archives

Talmage on John Grisham's New Novel

By Talmage Boston on February 27, 2009 8:12 PM | 1 Comment | 0 TrackBacks
Talmage Boston, John Grisham, and Nolan Ryan Talmage and his wife Claire attending a baseball game with John Grisham and Nolan & Reese Ryan

Ah, the joys of mid-life for John Grisham!  His climb up the mountain has reached an altitude of sufficient height to provide a philosophical perspective worth sharing, and share it he does in his sensational new novel, The Associate.

Yes, of course, the new book released last month immediately shot to Number One on all the best-seller lists; and, no, the writer of this column is NOT going to give away the plot and surprise ending.
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More from Talmage on the Lincoln Bicentennial

By Talmage Boston on February 1, 2009 5:00 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

On Feb. 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born into poverty, the son of a mother who would die before he turned 10 and an illiterate father from whom he would become estranged. 

Despite Lincoln's starting out life under such foreboding circumstances, his country, 200 years later, is celebrating the man historians generally recognize as the greatest president in the U.S. history. The State Bar of Texas is joining in the Lincoln bicentennial festivities, preparing this special issue of the Texas Bar Journal; co-sponsoring a luncheon in Dallas on Lincoln’s birthday featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson[1] ; and lining up another Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, to speak at the State Bar Annual Meeting in Dallas on June 26.

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