Non Fiction Archive |
Never Surrender: Winston Churchill and Britain’s Decision to Fight Nazi Germany in the Fateful Summer of 1940 - In the short-form version of Winston Churchill’s life --- I’m thinking of Paul Johnson’s excellent 192-page biography --- we meet the Churchill who’s become legend, a late-life hero who saved
Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life - I thought Life, by Keith Richards (with a lot of help), was the best rock memoir I ever read right up to the minute the Rolling Stones were officially anointed
No Place to Hide - My wife never calls me when I'm at a meeting, so at first I thought she was kidding --- how could I be the prime suspect in a car
Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Manage Generation Y - I liked Bruce Tulgan before I knew what he did. You'd like him too. He's smart and funny and he listens. When I discovered he was a highly
Obama: An Intimate Portrait - This isn’t fair. For sanity’s sake, you try not to think about this guy. For sanity’s sake, if you're like everybody I know and pretty much everybody you know, you
One2One - One2One Elodie Mailliet and William Hannigan I want
Outcasts United: A holiday letter from the Fugees - This is not about the Fugees, the hip-hop group that sold a trillion CDs. This is about the Fugees, a ragtag soccer club for kids started by Luma Mufleh in
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town - How does a soccer coach find a practice field for her team? Google Earth. But why, in a town that's not short of parks, is she looking for a field on
Outcasts United: Q&A with Warren St. John - White people under siege --- that's one of the themes of Warren St. John's book about the struggle of mostly African kids and their Jordanian coach to
Philip Slater: The Chrysalis Effect: The Metamorphosis of Global Culture - Philip Slater? In 1970, he was the rising star of sociology, having published a landmark book, The Pursuit of Loneliness. He taught at Harvard, became chairman of the Sociology department
Philip Slater: The Pursuit of Loneliness - I was saddened to learn that I now must admire Philip Slater among the dead. The New York Times obituary suggests how many lives he crammed into his 86 years ---
Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization -
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes - A snail was mugged by two turtles. When the police asked him what happened, he said, “I don't know. It all happened so fast.” Tom Cathcart and Daniel Klein
Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World - We now know that direct social interaction --- being in the same physical space as other people --- helps you live longer and better. We know that hyper-focus on events
Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America - The last time we saw Charles Ferguson, he was beginning his remarks on the occasion of his Academy Award for Inside Job with these blunt words: "Forgive me, I must
Proust’s Overcoat: The True Story of One Man’s Passion for All Things Proust - If your home were on fire, what would you take? The photo albums? That’s so 1999. In 2010, you’d just grab a bag of memory chips and DVDs. Jewelry? Sure. But if
Provence A-Z - It was at a show of paintings by Cezanne and Pissarro at the Museum of Modern Art that I realized I wanted to spend my declining years in
Questions: How did we get here? What next? Clues: 12 books, 1 movie. - America woke up on November 9th to surprise and unease. How did this unlikely candidate win the election? When did the country become so divided? What can we do about
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout - There are exciting, original books, and then there is “Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout” --- a book so astonishingly inventive that the cover is
