Category: NON FICTION

June 20, 2022

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan *** (of 4)

As the 19th century was drawing to a close, the photographer Edward Curtis took it upon himself to photo-document and record ethnographic information on every...

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May 10, 2022

The Queen by Josh Levin ** (of 4)

In principle, the story of Linda Taylor, the woman stuck with the appellation of America’s Welfare Queen, upon whom so much political scorn has been...

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March 23, 2022

The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr **** (of 4)

At some level all of us who shop for food know that canned tomatoes don’t really grow in cans and that frozen shrimp don’t really...

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January 31, 2022

Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury by Evan Osnos **** (of 4)

Journalism is a first attempt to record history, and Osnos makes an outstanding first pass over the period in America between September 11, 2001 and...

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January 9, 2022

The Children of Ash and Elm by Neil Price *** (of 4)

Truly, everything you might ever want to know about Vikings and how they ruled with terrible violence is scrutinized. Scandinavia, Western Europe, and the British...

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December 7, 2021

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara *** (of 4)

One big difference between true crime and mystery novels is that when true crimes are committed, it’s not unusual for the perpetrator to get away....

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November 30, 2021

Dark Towers by David Enrich *** (of 4)

In a marvelous job of explaining obscure ways of making money, David Enrich details how Deutsche Bank grew from a sleepy, domestic, German lender into...

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August 2, 2021

Freedom by Sebastian Junger ** (of 4)

Junger takes a walk along the railroad tracks from somewhere in eastern Pennsylvania to somewhere in the western part of the state, near Ohio. It...

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October 26, 2017

Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich *** (of 4)

Alexievich won the Nobel Prize for her oral histories of Russia and the Soviet Union. Secondhand Time includes exquisitely curated accounts of members of the Former...

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September 28, 2017

March: Book Three by Andrew Aydin, John Lewis, and John Noel Claude Lewis **** (of 4)

This is the final installment of the biography of Congressman John Lewis’s youthful campaign for civil rights for America’s black population. Books One and Two cover...

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