In a recent post regarding The Kenneth Roberts Reader, I posed the question about why Ben Ames Williams was chosen to write the introduction, and not Booth Tarkington. Now, I realize in the grand sch… more →
Kenneth Roberts - The Unofficial Sitewrote 2 months ago: Natural Cotton In The Unconquered, Ben Ames Williams picks up the story of the South during the mid- … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Crucible by Ben Ames Williams For almost thirty years Ellen and Arthur Sentry had lived a gracious a … more →
wrote 9 months ago: Books, Documentaries, Reviews: July 30, 2012 COME SPRING by Ben Ames Williams Friend Gail Nicholson … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Richard Harland: You killed him. You let Danny drown, didn’t you? Didn’t you?! Ellen Ber … more →
wrote 2 years ago: I saw in the New Year with yet another 1930s William Wellman movie which isn’t available on DV … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Strange Woman, directed with uncredited assistance from Douglas Sirk, is … more →
wrote 2 years ago: I’m well aware that Alfred Newman’s booming score ads a certain melodramatic je ne sais … more →
wrote 3 years ago: Can there be such a thing as a film noir in color? I don’t think there can, but the term noir … more →
wrote 4 years ago: In a recent post regarding The Kenneth Roberts Reader, I posed the question about why Ben Ames Willi … more →
wrote 4 years ago: As stated in an earlier post (“The Kenneth Roberts Reader“), I wanted to find out why Be … more →
wrote 4 years ago: 1945 ed. of The Reader I’ve recently picked up The Kenneth Roberts Reader for some light read … more →
wrote 4 years ago: For Ken, who expects from the historian a remote impartiality, himself always has a thesis to demons … more →
wrote 5 years ago: House Divided deserves to be dusted off and reread. Ben Ames Williams gives us believable characters … more →