AltWeeklies Wire
'How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamites,' Reviewednew
When the financial tailspin of 2008 forced Alan Greenspan to confess that he was mistaken about the unshakable rationality and self-correcting nature of the economy, it was as if a Roman Catholic cardinal publicly doubted the divinity of Christ.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
02-26-2010 |
Nonfiction
Milwaukee Marched for Justicenew
Anyone living in Milwaukee in the '60s and old enough to be aware will recall a time of sharp tension. This story is recounted with lucid scholarship in The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
05-15-2009 |
Nonfiction
Animals in Art: Surveying American Wildlifenew
Some people have dismissed wildlife art as sentimental kitsch fit only for hotel lobbies or illustrating bird-watcher's handbooks. David J. Wagner might just change that perception with American Wildlife Art, a magisterial volume lavishly illustrated with more than 300 pictures, most in color.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
02-13-2009 |
Nonfiction
'Travel Italia' Surveys Commerical Artistsnew
By the 1920s, high-end travel by ship, train and airplane had become a thriving business the world over, promoted by colorful posters of great artistry.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
02-22-2008 |
Nonfiction
Our Way or No Way?new
Noam Chomsky opens his latest book, What We Say Goes, with fists flying.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-18-2008 |
Nonfiction
Saved or Not?new
Crazy for God is largely an account of Frank Schaeffer's 1960s childhood in Switzerland where his parents, the Calvinist theologians Francis and Edith Schaeffer, ran a community based on their interpretation of Christian ideals.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-11-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Black Mass': A Call to Do Nothing?new
John Gray of the London School of Economics identifies many of the world's problems as stemming from those seeking the mirage of Utopia -- the idea that the world can be utterly transformed by human agency according to one blueprint or another.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
12-21-2007 |
Original Work
Beatlemaniacnew
Ian McDonald devised a book that wraps astute social analysis around the fan bait of track-by-track, annotated descriptions of every Beatles recording, including session notes, trivia and critical exegesis.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
11-12-2007 |
Nonfiction
Roll Over Leonard Bernsteinnew
Classical faces the music?
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
05-21-2007 |
Nonfiction
America's Great Lost Songwriternew
John Kruth talks about tackling the life of Townes Van Zandt in his new biography.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
03-26-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: John Kruth, To Live's to Fly
