Gary Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "I'm only a second-generation American. My father's family came to this country from Denmark; my mother's people emigrated from Norway and Sweden. My father was a career military man who se...

4 LOVE of great cities and vainglorious public monuments comes naturally to despots, and Saddam Hussein is no exception. Since the Baath Party came to power in 1968, it has filled the burgeoning city of Baghdad with new roads, monuments, redevelopment zones...

The more one reads of "Great White Fathers," by John Taliaferro, published by Public Affairs, New York, the more one gets the urge to hop into a car and actually see what Gutzon Borglum fashioned in Mount Rushmore National Park, S.D. In fact,...