Michael Walsh Books in Order

A richly illustrated history of Carnegie Hall's first century, co-written with Richard Schickel. The book surveys the landmark's performers, architecture, renovation, and place in New York's musical and social life.

A biography of composer and producer Andrew Lloyd Webber, covering his major shows, creative partnerships, influences, and public career. Walsh approaches the subject with the perspective of a longtime music critic.

A plainspoken guide for listeners curious about classical music but unsure where to begin. Walsh covers symphonies, chamber music, opera, recordings, and concertgoing with practical advice and a deliberately unsnobbish tone.

Rabbi David Kahana's Holocaust memoir records life in the Lvov ghetto from the German occupation in 1941 through liberation in 1944. It recounts persecution, forced labor, hiding, and the destruction of a Jewish community.

An accessible, opinionated introduction to opera for readers who find the art form daunting. Walsh explains how opera works, why its stories matter, and how to enjoy its music, theater, traditions, and larger-than-life emotions.

NYPD homicide lieutenant Francis X. Byrne investigates the brutal death of a Danish diplomat. The case leads him into espionage, blackmail, and a disputed KGB file, while forcing a collision with his FBI agent brother.

An authorized prequel and sequel to *Casablanca*, following Rick Blaine's earlier life and the aftermath of the film's airport farewell. Rick, Ilsa, Sam, and Louis move through wartime intrigue, romance, and resistance across several cities.

This fictional memoir follows Owney Madden from the hard streets of Hell's Kitchen to the center of Prohibition-era crime. Bootlegging, gang rivalries, the Cotton Club, and family loyalties shape his rise through old New York.

A lively question-and-answer guide to opera, covering its stories, stars, traditions, and four centuries of history. Walsh addresses common beginner questions with humor, strong opinions, and an invitation to listen more closely.

After a horrifying terrorist attack on American soil, the government turns to Devlin, its most secret operative. Someone is targeting civilians to force him into the open, and he must stop the slaughter before the real objective is revealed.

Devlin returns when international cyberterrorists help radical insurgents breach the highest levels of U.S. security. To stop an enemy bent on mass violence, he must work through a crisis where every rule has changed.

Writing as David Kahane, Walsh offers a confrontational conservative political handbook. He argues that conservatives need to name their opponents clearly, organize more effectively, and fight cultural and electoral battles with greater resolve.

A devastating biological attack in California strikes weeks before a presidential election. Devlin knows who caused the mayhem, but he must uncover the wider plan before panic, political chaos, and further violence take hold.

A brief partisan polemic in which Walsh argues that the Democratic Party's history runs through political machines, corruption, slavery, segregation, and modern progressive politics. It is a forceful statement of his conservative political view.

A standalone thriller from Michael Walsh, separate from the Devlin sequence. It is a self-contained suspense novel, published among Walsh's later fiction.

In Berlin after World War I, an abandoned baby is left at a convent and grows up searching for her identity. Margareta's life carries her through fascism, war, dangerous political circles, and imprisonment by the Gestapo.

A combative cultural critique arguing that Critical Theory has reshaped American institutions, art, and public life. Walsh traces the ideas he sees behind modern political and cultural conflict, drawing on philosophy, literature, religion, and music.

A follow-up to *The Devil's Pleasure Palace* that connects art, religion, politics, and history. Walsh argues that the stories and cultural works a society preserves can help explain its values, conflicts, and future choices.

Walsh examines twelve battles that he believes changed the course of Western history. Moving from ancient warfare to the modern era, he considers commanders, military decisions, and the cultural consequences of armed conflict.