Books

Review of Michael Stewart Foley's "Front Porch Politics"

by Andrew Feffer

Shedding a light on the radical reality of politics in the '70s and '80s.

Review of Gary J. Bass's "The Blood Telegram"

by Ron Briley

Contemplating America's complicity in the genocide of Bengali Hindus.

Review of Gershon Baskin's "The Negotiator"

by Murray Polner

How Israel built bridges with its worst enemies.

Review of Paul Buhle's "Radical Jesus: A Graphic History of Faith"

by Jim Cullen

A provocative approach to religion, pedagogy, and history.

Review of William G. Hyland Jr.'s "Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson"

by Kathryn Moore

A biography fit for the author of the seminal six-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson.

Review of Linda Ronstadt's "Simple Dreams"

by Jim Cullen

A musical memoir with a few too many silent notes.

Review of Adam D. Shprintzen's "The Vegetarian Crusade"

by Murray Polner

How vegetarianism began and spread in the United States.

Review of Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Lowlands"

by Jim Cullen

The latest chronicle of the Indian diaspora ventures into the realm of radical politics.

Review of Craig Steven Wilder's "Ebony and Ivy"

by Luther Spoehr

Early American colleges were saturated by slavery.

Review of Patricia Keeton and Peter Scheckner's "American War Cinema & Media Since Vietnam"

by Andrew Feffer

Hollywood war films from Vietnam to Iraq.

Review of Amanda Ripley's "The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way"

by Jim Cullen

A lesson of worldly hope -- if we could only work up the will to believe it.

Review of Richard Moe's "Roosevelt's Second Act"

by Bernard von Bothmer

Was the 1940 presidential election the most important in American history?

Review of Jack El-Hai's "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist"

by Murray Polner

Fifty top Nazis and their American shrink.

Review of Reza Aslan's "Zealot"

by Jim Cullen

A notorious FOX interview can't obscure the value of a book whose utility outstrips its limits.

Review of Dan Moldea's "Confessions of a Guerilla Writer"

by Mel Ayton

America needs more investigative reporters like Dan Moldea.

Review of David Margolick's "Dreadful"

by Doug Ireland

Gore Vidal’s forgotten rival.

Review of Peter Savodnik's "The Interloper"

by Priscilla Johnson McMillan

Despite omissions, this is a valuable study of Lee Harvey Oswald's psyche.

Review of Paul R. Gregory's "Women of the Gulag"

by Murray Polner

Women victims in Stalin's Russia. 

Review of Thurston Clarke's "JFK's Last Hundred Days"

by Luther Spoehr

A president and a presidency transformed?

Review of Alice McDermott's "Someone"

by Jim Cullen

A prize-winning novelist (once again) resurrects the spirit of the Irish diaspora