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Imagine if the only way you can help a loved one is to lie to the police, say the person threatened your life and hope they are arrested. That’s a situation an untold number of Americans face every day. As journalist Pete Earley explores in Crazy, America’s jails and prisons are its new mental institutions. […] If you couldn’t laugh, you’d cry. That adage seems to sum up a segment of liberal authors when it comes to the Bush Administration. F.U.B.A.R.: America’s Right-Wing Nightmare, written by the co-host and a producer of Air America Radio‘s “The Majority Report“, is the latest entry in the field of books taking on Bush and […] As I was reading Philip Roth’s Everyman, the person sitting next to me noticed the plain black cover and said, “That looks depressing.” I think it is more accurate to call it an existential meditation on death. But don’t let even that somber description put you off. Mind you, the book isn’t a blithe beach […] Everyone at some time must respond to their conscience. When Charlie Johnson’s inner voice leads him in new directions in Mike Palecek’s Terror Nation, Charlie finds himself truly a prisoner of conscience in middle America. Charlie is retired after spending 35 years as a sportswriter and sports editor in Saint Smith, Iowa. He is a […] If there’s one thing more difficult than making history interesting to a general audience, it’s writing a history of scientific achievement. While Deborah Cadbury’s Space Race is not a perfect work, it does a worthy job of telling the history of the race between the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve supremacy in […] |
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