On the heels of the news about Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, Charlie Brennan on his morning show Monday on KMOX Radio asked a listener, What should the United States have done if Anne Frank had managed to escape from her secret annex in Amsterdam...

I read a lot of books in the course of a year, and one of the benefits of being a journalist and an author myself is that I tend to meet a lot of my brothers and sisters who are in the word business, too. These days, it seems an awful lot of the books...