Category: NON FICTION

June 17, 2010

Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama *** (of 4)

Obama’s memoir of his earliest memories through his years as an organizer strike me first as the story of someone I could easily have gone...

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June 17, 2010

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller *** (of 4)

This book is the Angela’s Ashes of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. Fuller is utterly forthcoming about growing up the child of white, racist, ex-pat, British, drunken parents during...

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June 17, 2010

A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger **** (of 4)

In the early 60s the Boston Strangler attacked, murdered, and then raped eleven women in and around the city. A black man with a criminal...

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June 17, 2010

The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries by Marilyn Johnson * (of 4)

The book is deadly boring. It might have made a decent one-pager in a fluffy magazine. Johnson is obsessed with obituaries, which, admittedly, can have...

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June 17, 2010

Confederates in the Attic: America’s Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz *** (of 4)

A nice Jewish boy from the D.C. suburbs treks across the south meeting Civil War re-enactors, Daughters of the Confederate States of America, poor-whites with...

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June 17, 2010