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'Mobility Without Mayhem' Explores Drivingnew
Understanding the primacy of the automobile in American life.
INDY Week |
Gerry Canavan |
03-20-2008 |
Nonfiction
Nesting Placesnew
Birdhouses is an unusual book devoted to avian real estate.
INDY Week |
Jaimee Hills |
03-13-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Across the Lines' Shares Stories from the Not-So-Distant Pastnew
Barry Jacobs gives us a timely, spellbinding account of the racial integration of men's basketball in the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Southeastern Conference between the mid-1960s and early 1970s.
INDY Week |
Thad Williamson |
02-22-2008 |
Nonfiction
Lamenting the Fading of Black Historynew
One of the more startling revelations of Charles Cobb Jr.'s On the Road to Freedom, out last month from Algonquin Books, is just how rapidly the physical history of the Civil Rights movement is withering before our eyes.
INDY Week |
Gerry Canavan |
02-14-2008 |
Nonfiction
A Nostalgic, Flawed Daniel Boone in Robert Morgan's Biographynew
Morgan fashions Daniel Boone not just as a legendary woodsman, but as a literary and philosophical ideal -- a naturalist -- living the life of Walden before Thoreau ever valorized such ideals.
INDY Week |
Jaimee Hills |
11-29-2007 |
Nonfiction
Movement Liberal: Paul Krugmannew
The pundit and economist is a hero to the left, but has politics colored his judgment?
INDY Week |
Thad Williamson |
11-26-2007 |
Nonfiction
Jenna Bush, Compassionate Conservativenew
Any snide suspicions one may harbor about the author's ability or her intentions are quickly swept away upon opening the book. Ana's Story deserves high marks as a dramatic, absorbing and moving read for kids and adults alike.
INDY Week |
Sylvia Pfeiffenberger |
11-08-2007 |
Nonfiction
Mike Sager's New Journalism Fills 'Donut Boys'new
Sager gives frontline reports on everything from the rapper Ice Cube to expat Vietnam vets in Thailand to suburban-Maryland Tupperware saleswomen.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
09-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
Professor Works Out His Salvation Through NASCARnew
Here is what many nonbelievers see when they glimpse a NASCAR race on television: A bunch of billboards on wheels turning left at insane speeds, perpetrating unconscionable air and noise pollution and pointless death, and wasting an increasingly precious natural resource.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
09-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
Remembering America's First Black Marinesnew
Through their own words, we get the true picture of what life was like for these men who trained in the Jim Crow South and a gritty and harrowing account of their combat experiences.
INDY Week |
Alice Osborn |
05-31-2007 |
Nonfiction
Minority Leaguesnew
How integration came to the South via minor league baseball.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
04-06-2007 |
Nonfiction
An Original and Incisive Essay Collectionnew
A book by a poet about poetry should, above all, excite readers about poems, and that's what The Napkin Manuscripts does best.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
03-15-2007 |
Nonfiction
Edwards' Empathynew
In a candid memoir, Elizabeth Edwards writes of the private pain behind the public career.
INDY Week |
Christy Hardin Smith |
12-07-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Elizabeth Edwards, Saving Graces
The Life You Savenew
Catherine McCall's memoir recalls a life of sinking and surfacing.
INDY Week |
Sylvia Pfeiffenberger |
08-03-2006 |
Nonfiction
Whitewashnew
In his new autobiography, Jesse Helms sees himself as a humanitarian -- not a racist supporter of brutal right-wing regimes who turned obstructionism into a foreign policy.
INDY Week |
Barry Yeoman |
09-12-2005 |
Nonfiction
