Category: Book Reviews

June 18, 2010

A People’s History of the United States: 1492 – Present by Howard Zinn **** (of 4)

Zinn flaunts his bias in an attempt to countermand the prevailing mythology of the U.S. and makes a convincing case that the country is not...

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June 18, 2010

A Peace to end all Peace by David Fromkin *** (of 4)

An unbelievably informative book about the transformation of the Ottoman Empire through World War I into the colonial prizes carved up by Western Europe into...

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June 18, 2010

Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik ** (of 4)

Great writing, but plotless, so it was hard to keep reading. They were better when they were New Yorker Letters from Paris.

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June 18, 2010

Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler **** (of 4)

Normally when a magazine writer — Hessler is a New Yorker correspondent — assembles a book it feels like a compilation of previously published articles....

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June 18, 2010

The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan **** (of 4)

Probably not much you do not already know about America’s industrial food chain and the manufactured food we consume at the end of it. You...

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June 18, 2010

O Jerusalem by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

Very engaging history of Israel war for independence.

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June 18, 2010

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin *** (of 4)

The book only covers five years, but it does it so thoroughly that it probably contains more than half a million words. Goodwin brings several...

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June 18, 2010

No Man’s River, by Farley Mowat **** (of 4)

Fifty years after the events that brought him from the horrors of WW II to a small hut on the edge of Hudson’s Bay near...

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June 18, 2010

he Ninemile Wolves by Rick Bass ** (of 4)

OK, he really cares about wolves and he can write about nature like nobody’s business, but this book is like late McPhee cycling between great...

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June 18, 2010

The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin **** (of 4)

There’s a good reason this book made many top ten lists for 2007. It’s a very easy read full of insider information about the Supreme...

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