Category: NON FICTION

January 11, 2024

Free by Lea Ypi *** (of 4)

Lea Ypi is now a distinguished professor of political theory at the London School of Economics. She wanted to describe for readers what life in...

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December 11, 2023

Cheap Land Colorado by Tim Conover ** (of 4)

There is a part of the dry flatlands of Colorado called the San Luis Valley where five acres of land can be purchased for a...

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November 23, 2023

Goodbye, Eastern Europe *** (of 4)

It is an enormous undertaking to try and explain the people, cultures, and kaleidoscopic national identities of a region as large as Eastern Europe. Jacob...

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October 27, 2023

Homegrown by Jeffrey Toobin ** (of 4)

Toobin can be a captivating writer; he is one of the greats at uncovering the backstories of a variety of criminals and noteworthy trials: OJ...

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October 20, 2023

Gettysburg: The Last Invasion by Allen Guelzo *** (of 4)

Tens of thousands of books have been written about the Civil War, and thousands have covered one of the most significant battles of the conflict:...

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October 7, 2023

How to Make a Slave by Jerald Walker **** (of 4)

Jerald Walker is a Black professor at a prestigious Boston college. He lives in an overwhelmingly upscale Boston-adjacent community, and on the surface would appear...

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October 7, 2023

Draft No. 4 by John McPhee *** (of 4)

McPhee is one of the preeminent nonfiction craftsmen of the last half century. As a staff writer for The New Yorker his longform essays have...

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August 23, 2023

Deep South by Paul Theroux **** (of 4)

This is Paul Theroux’s only travel book wherein the act of traveling is intentionally easy. Unlike his other books – taking the railroad across Siberia,...

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August 23, 2023

Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule *** (of 4)

The author, Ty Seidule, is a professor of history at West Point. That gives him real cache when he says the southern states lost the...

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August 2, 2023

Grandma Gatewood’s Walk *** (of 4)

In 1955, when the Appalachian Trail (AT) was still in its infancy, Emma Gatewood walked its full length, 2050 miles from Mount Oglethorpe, Georgia to...

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