We are very grateful to Graham Green, Tom Remington and Amy Ferrington at Reed Smith for their exemplary advice and support throughout the proceedings. [read post]

  But he was also, at some level, channelling part of the myth of The West where men were men and men did what men had to do.From James Fenimore Cooper and the Leatherstocking Tales to Owen Wister's The Virginian to Louis L'Amour's Sacketts, from Tom Mix to John Wayne to Clint Eastwood  (not so much Jeff Bridges, but him too), and from Johnny Appleseed, Daniel Boone, and Davy Crockett to Ronald Reagan with stops for Crazy Horse and Chief Joseph, Geronimo and… [read post]