by bertbaby | Apr 1, 2014 | Book Reviews
“Tammany Hall” has become iconic shorthand for a style of governance and politicking that seemingly long ago vanished from the Earth. Journalist and historian Terry Golway finds the resonance of the famed organization.
by bertbaby | Apr 1, 2014 | Book Reviews
April 1: “Pickup trucks started out as down-and-dirty work tools until Detroit discovered it could make billions by selling lavish designer trucks.”
by bertbaby | Apr 1, 2014 | Book Reviews
A cavalcade of diverting deceptions.
by bertbaby | Mar 31, 2014 | Book Reviews
March 31: “This is what I have to say about Bach’s life’s work: listen, play, love, revere — and keep your trap shut.”
by bertbaby | Mar 30, 2014 | Book Reviews
Thai Jones’s eye-opening study of the USA in 1914 captures an unwritten history of a nation on the brink of anarchist bombings and political bedlam akin to that which scrambled Europe at the outset of WWI.
by bertbaby | Mar 29, 2014 | Book Reviews
A bleary-eyed apocalypse in which zombies are replaced by the restlessly wakeful.
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