Essays

Dallas Morning News

Talmage's 5 most recent Op-Ed essays for the DMN:

March 12, 2024

Boston: He illustrated Civil War reconciliation. What would he draw today?

February 21, 2024

What would America’s best presidents say to us now?

February 12, 2024

Featured Article in Best Law Firms, Ranked by Best Lawyers, Feb. 8, 2024:
“What Would Henry Do or Say?”
By Talmage Boston

February 5, 2024

Talmage Boston: A Christmas gift with some election year advice

January 9, 2024

Trump-Biden race will be ‘death valley’

Talmage has written over 75 Op-Ed essays and book reviews for the Dallas Morning News.

Texas Bar Journal

Talmage's 6 most recent articles for the TBJ:

March 18, 2024

Iron Sharpens Iron: How my historian avocation has made me a better lawyer.

October 1, 2020

Capacity for Courage

July 1, 2020

Presidential Leadership and Legal Professionalism: The Ties That Bind – Part Two

June 1, 2020

Presidential Leadership and Legal Professionalism: The Ties That Bind – Part One

November 1, 2019

The Consummate Dealmaker

January 1, 2019

Hamilton the Lawyer

July 1, 1019

The Power of Words: Best Practices in Communication for Lawyers, Courtesy of Winston Churchill

Talmage has written 16 articles for the Texas Bar Journal.

Book Reviews

New York Times

Read Talmage's first book review for the NYT that appeared October 13, 2020:

October 13, 2020

Martin J. Sherwin’s Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis

Washington Independent Review of Books

Talmage's 6 most recent book reviews for the WIROB:

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May 14, 2021

Ken Starr’s Religious Liberty in Crisis: Exercising Your Faith in an Age of Uncertainty A Fighter for Faith

May 4, 2021

Ronald C. White’s Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President amplifies Abe’s Euclidean approach to thinking.

March 1, 2021

Walter Isaacson’s The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race expertly chronicles the science — and scientists — behind CRISPR.

November 13, 2020

Susan Eisenhower’s How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower’s Biggest Decisions makes the case for the unique greatness of Eisenhower’s leadership.

October 13, 2020

H.W. Brands’ The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom

September 29, 2020

Peter Baker & Susan Glasser The Man Who Ran Washington recounts James Baker’s masterful orchestration of his role as consummate dealmaker in the nation’s capital

Talmage has averaged 12 reviews a year for the WIROB over the last 3 years.