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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
Mississippi's CIA Connectionnew
This story of the CIA reads more like a thriller than a history book.
Jackson Free Press |
James L. Dickerson |
11-28-2007 |
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
Something to Write Home Aboutnew
Johnny Cash's letters to his first wife, many of them compelling love songs, show a side of the musician that never came out in his songs.
Jackson Free Press |
James L. Dickerson |
11-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
Mark Jenkins' Excellent Adventurenew
And so we come to Jenkins, author and former Outside columnist, who stands in the face of his clownish peers as an authentic adventurer.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Matt Martin |
11-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Blood and Soil' Looks at Lands of The Lostnew
This tome mines the links between systemic population exterminations and conquest.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
11-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Life of Charles Schulznew
Michaelis has produced a stunningly insightful and compulsively readable account of the life -- particularly the emotional life -- of the creator of "Peanuts," the famed comic strip about "born loser" Charlie Brown and his young friends.
Shepherd Express |
Roger Miller |
11-19-2007 |
Nonfiction
A Rapper's Paradisenew
Hip-hop's early days return in vivid words and pictures in Born in the Bronx.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Donnell Alexander |
11-19-2007 |
Nonfiction
Writer and Game Show Winner Takes on Ken Jennings’s 'Brainiac'new
Jennings's writing is clever, self-effacing, even hip, and the book is rich with pop cultural, academic, and historical trivia.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Greg Katz |
11-19-2007 |
Nonfiction
A Simple Mind Run Amoknew
Greenwald identifies the victims of the Bush presidency, the harm they have suffered, and how that harm continues to be inflicted. He discusses the accomplices who have made it possible for a president with no electoral mandate to use the irrational, and now seriously diminished, support he gained from the events of 9/11 to do so much damage.
The Texas Observer |
Thomas Palaima |
11-19-2007 |
Nonfiction
Judith Jones Honors Her Muse, Gastereanew
The opening scene in Jones' memoir, The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, says it all: Her mother was well into her 90s, and she had one question for her daughter: "Tell me, Judith, do you really like garlic?"
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
11-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
'The Dirt on Clean' Recounts the History of Hygienenew
Working her way back to the present, with its crazy explosion in bathroom building and anti-bacterial products, Ashenburg makes a strong case for the cultural relativity of clean.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
11-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
James Sturm's Moving Picturesnew
The graphic novelist, like a film director, tells a story through images as much as words. And reading Sturm is a little like watching Alfred Hitchcock direct a Todd Solondz script -- he's got the eye-catching compositions of the auteur and the intense, painful curiosity of the squirm-inducing indie.
Seven Days |
Matt Frassica |
11-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
Replacements Oral History Captures the Music, Not the Bandnew
Oral histories thrill most with gossipy, first-person accounts, but perhaps because Paul Westerberg is still alive, most participants held their tongues.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Sarah Askari |
11-15-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Rehabilitation of Joe McCarthynew
Evans' book is the latest in a revisionist school of thought that casts McCarthy, not the people he investigated, as the true victim.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
11-14-2007 |
Nonfiction
