Where is your nonfiction section please.
Book review: If Only They Didn't Speak English, by Jon Sopel (Amazon / Book Depository) BBC journalist Jon Sopel, the network's North America editor, writes about US history, politics, culture and personal impressions through a UK-US comparative lens while working in both Obama's and Trump's America. Sopel got called out by Trump at a press... Continue Reading →
Book review: Pale Horse Rider, by Mark Jacobson Book Depository Even a broken clock is right twice a day; that's what they say about people who are supposed to be crackpots. It's the idea that there is a moment in time when even the most outlandish contention, the most eccentric point of view, the most... Continue Reading →
Book review: Heartland, by Sarah Smarsh Journalist Sarah Smarsh is a fifth generation Kansan who grew up with her family life centered around a wheat farm in the countryside, with Wichita being the closest big city. In her memoir, she chronicles generations of her family, particularly the strong but troubled women in her lineage, and puts... Continue Reading →
Book review: The Men Who Stare at Goats, by Jon Ronson In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practice—and indeed, the laws of physics—they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most... Continue Reading →
Book review: The American Spirit, by David McCullough History, I like to think, is a larger way of looking at life. It is a source of strength, of inspiration. It is about who we are and what we stand for and is essential to our understanding of what our own role should be in our... Continue Reading →
Book review: The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore, by Jared Yates Sexton Amazon/ Book Depository Jared Yates Sexton sprang to national prominence while attending a Donald Trump rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 2016. He was one of the first journalists to report on the blatant racism, violence, anger and... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Exiled in America, by Christopher Dum (Amazon / Book Depository) Sociologist Christopher P. Dum lived for a year in a residential motel, vaguely and anonymously located somewhere in upstate New York, observing and interacting with its residents to learn more about what brought them there and why they stay. That's the basic premise. As an... Continue Reading →
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