by bertbaby | Mar 5, 2014 | Book Reviews
The name Eliot Ness and his struggles to bring down Al Capone have passed into the annals of pop heroism via “The Untouchables.” But Douglas Perry’s biography reveals the less glamorous — yet no less thrilling — truth behind the...
by bertbaby | Mar 5, 2014 | Book Reviews
Jerome Charyn’s fiftieth book may be his best. Abraham Lincoln, known to his contemporaries as a man who loved to tell a good story, steps down from history’s pedestal to narrate his improbable career with wit and charm. A bravura act of literary...
by bertbaby | Mar 5, 2014 | Book Reviews
An argument that wicked play outweighs hard work in our country’s heritage.
by bertbaby | Mar 5, 2014 | Book Reviews
Fiction’s Old Guard is in anything but retreat.
by bertbaby | Mar 5, 2014 | Book Reviews
March 5: “How do you privatize hundreds of state companies? How do you re-create religious and social organizations disbanded long ago?”
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