Category: America

July 25, 2024

Goodnight Irene, by Luis Alberto Urrea **** (of 4)

Based on accounts from the author’s mother, Luis Alberto Urrea has created a fictional account of two young women who volunteer for the Red Cross...

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July 12, 2024

Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley *** (of 4)

Joe King Oliver is, no, was, a NYC cop. He was sent to Rikers after being framed for molesting a perp. Now, a dozen years...

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June 26, 2024

Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen *** (of 4)

This is Annie Jacobsen’s first book in a series of investigative journalism pieces into top-secret practices of the U.S. government. Using the Freedom of Information...

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May 18, 2024

The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto *** (of 4)

Shorto’s hypothesis is concise and convincing. His book is long and detailed. As the ages of Enlightenment and Exploration dawned on Europe, Holland was the...

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April 25, 2024

The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory by Tim Alberta **** (of 4)

Tim Alberta is a Christian evangelical and an accomplished journalist describing what he sees as a growing division inside America’s evangelical churches. He visits and...

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March 25, 2024

Rough Crossings by Simon Schama *** (of 4)

How did we not know this? In the 1760s, a court case in England suggested that any person of African descent living in Great Britain...

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March 25, 2024

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley (*** of 4)

Kerry Howley digs deep into the lives of American whistleblowers: John Walker Lindh, Chelsea Manning, Reality Winner, and Edward Snowden. Each was charged with violating...

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March 25, 2024

The Golden Gate by Amy Chua *** (of 4)

Detective Al Sullivan’s first big murder case erupts when former presidential candidate Walter Wilkinson (modeled on FDR’s 1940 opponent Wendell Wilkie) is shot in his...

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