The rise of Rin Tin Tin is a classic only-in-America story, and here's our Rita Braver to tell it: Meet Rin Tin Tin the XXII, spokesdog for the American Humane Association, who recently presided over ...

He believed the dog was immortal. "There will always be a Rin Tin Tin," Lee Duncan said, time and time again, to reporters, to visitors, to fan magazines, to neighbors, to family, to friends. At first ...

The front cover of Susan Orlean's remarkable "Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend" shows a German shepherd dog - possibly Rin Tin Tin himself - looking away from the camera. It is at once notable for ...

A great deal of her fascination with Rin Tin Tin came from finding out that he wasn’t just a character in a 1950s television series — and subsequent movies, cartoons, and series reboots — but a real ...

Here's the short version: America's most famous dog was an immigrant, born 93 years ago in France, and discovered when he was just days old by an American GI fighting in World War I. He was named ...

RIN TIN TIN: The Life and the Legend, by Susan Orlean. Simon & Schuster, 324 pp, $26.99. Stop that scoffing. Yes, Susan Orlean spent nearly a decade of her life researching and writing a book about a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...