AltWeeklies Wire
Was the War Really Necessary?new
A best-selling history of the Revolutionary War makes a reader wonder if that first war could have been avoided and whether its ultimate success, and the consequent linking of violence with freedom, led to the war in Iraq.
Illinois Times |
Fletcher Farrar |
10-21-2005 |
Nonfiction
The Gold Standardnew
Peter Guralnick's life of Sam Cooke shines.
Boston Phoenix |
David Kirby |
10-14-2005 |
Nonfiction
Dangerous Mindsnew
Bruce Fleming injects Naval Academy cadets with a dose of moral complexity.
Colorado Springs Independent |
John Dicker |
10-14-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Annapolis Autumn, Bruce Fleming
No Great Shakesnew
Science, drama, travelogue -- there's a jumble of themes in this quake book that would be more solid told separately.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-12-2005 |
Nonfiction
Dark Starnew
Through meticulous research Charles R. Cross, who also wrote the Kurt Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven, has blown away the hearsay lazily sustained by earlier Jimi Hendrix books.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
10-11-2005 |
Nonfiction
Sleep With Menew
Because Neil Strauss drags The Game out to 437 pages, the book morphs into a grating, narcissistic Fight Club knockoff in which the author clumsily elevates his role from supporting playa to a sexual superstar.
Seattle Weekly |
Mike Seely |
10-07-2005 |
Nonfiction
A Woman at Warnew
A former military-intelligence sergeant of the 101st Airborne Division writes of her year in Iraq.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
10-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
All You Wanted to Know About Mackin'
King Flex offers wannabe playas dubious advice for scoring more high quality honeys and fewer chickenheads and hoodrats.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-29-2005 |
Nonfiction
Fossil Feud
Graphic novel digs up the too good to be anything but true story of the warring paleontologists who introudced America to the dinosuars, plus the sex secrets of alternative cartoonists.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-29-2005 |
Nonfiction
Author Loves Her Gunnew
Kayla Williams tells her story of being a woman in what is still largely a man's Army, in which every woman is considered either a bitch or a slut.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
09-29-2005 |
Nonfiction
Focus on the Familynew
Dan Savage's life is more traditional than you probably think.
Colorado Springs Independent |
John Dicker |
09-26-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Dan Savage, The Commitment
Read Menace
Author salvages a story about that other time we almost had a nuclear war with the U.S.S.R.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
A Reflection on Fatherhood
After growing up with an absent father and controlling stepfather, the author makes an attempt at redemption by taking in a foster child damaged by fetal alcohol syndrome -- and then turns to his dad to help raise the child.
The Source Weekly |
Tanya Ignacio |
09-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Craig Lesley, Burning Fence
A Marriage Coming-of-Age Storynew
The Commitment is a memoir sprinkled with polemic on gay marriage (in the absence of legal recognition) and gay family life (in the absence of established norms).
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
09-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Dan Savage, The Commitment
Dire Educationnew
Jonathan Kozol’s latest book fires off a crucial wake-up call for rapidly resegregating public school systems.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Corbin |
09-19-2005 |
Nonfiction
