Category: NON FICTION

February 25, 2011

Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters by Louis Begley ** (of 4)

After briefly summarizing the anti-Semitic atmosphere under which Alfred Dreyfus was falsely accused, convicted, and imprisoned for treason by France military and political authorities, Begley...

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January 9, 2011

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson **** (of 4)

Immediately following the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation most African Americans in the south were subject to what we today would call a campaign...

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September 8, 2010

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War by Neal Sheehan ** (of 4)

Bennie Schriever invents and promotes Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles to assure the mutual destruction of the Soviet Union (and the world) in the event that...

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August 29, 2010

Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt ** (of 4)

Rosenblatt’s daughter Amy dies unexpectedly from a heart attack at age 40 leaving behind a husband, successful career, and three young children. Roger Rosenblatt and...

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July 27, 2010

Soldier’s Heart by Elizabeth Samet ** (of 4)

It’s a fascinating insight into West Point. Samet, a civilian professor of English literature wrestles with what to teach plebes. Looking at a sea of...

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July 26, 2010

97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman ** (of 4)

It’s an interesting thesis. Jane Ziegelman, a food historian working at the Tenement Museum traces the food history of five immigrant families that settled on...

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July 16, 2010

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick **** (of 4)

I turned pages as fast as I could shaking my head in disbelief with each new revelation. North Korea is the last totalitarian communist dictatorship...

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July 15, 2010

Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria’s Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd by Sam Apple

A journalist who traveled from childhood memories to adult memories from urban NY to Austria’s highest peaks in search of Hans Breuer, Yiddish folk singer...

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July 14, 2010