Non Fiction Archive |
The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything - I never watch “Meet the Press”, but I tuned in to see David Gregory kick off NBC’s coverage of The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything. Instigated by
The Sky Over The Louvre - If you get to page 830 of Simon Schama’s Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, you know that Robespierre decided that the Revolution required an image to replace the
The Trouble with Boys - Ever since women got the right to vote in 1920, they've been on the march. In less than a century, they've muscled their way into the same jobs
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music - My early memories of classical music are of scratchy wool pants and of throwing up before --- and after --- my violin lessons. Then we moved to another state. My
The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End - I read somewhere that it is good to greet each day with an acknowledgment that death awaits you --- and then banish the thought and live your day. Some mornings
The Woman Who Beat The Klan - You may not have seen this news: Recently President Biden signed a proclamation establishing the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument in Mississippi and Illinois to “advance civil rights
They Made America From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovation - I'm very much interested in the story of the greatest economic growth of any nation in the history of the world. That story --- the 200-year tale of practical
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 - SUPPORTING BUTLER: Head Butler no longer gets a commission on your Amazon purchases. So the only way you can contribute to Head Butler’s bottom line is to become a patron
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial - WARNING: What follows is a strong recommendation for a story of death in Australia. Three deaths, actually, all children, all young, all drowned when a car driven by their father
Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (Common Sense; The Crisis; Rights of Man; The Age of Reason) - Guest Butler Stephen Mo Hanan is an award-winning actor, singer and playwright. He has recently completed a memoir about his adventures, internal and otherwise. Lucky New Yorkers saw him star
Three Women - I wrote a book called Married Sex: A Love Story, and I can report that writing emotionally credible sex is like climbing Everest in sneakers. That novel cured me of
Timothy Snyder: Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary - Bev Veals, a three-time cancer survivor in North Carolina, feared she could no longer afford her health care. She reached out to her Senator, Thom Tillis, for help, and when
Tough Cases: Judges Tell the Stories of Some of the Hardest Decisions They’ve Ever Made - Are you a lawyer? Know a law nerd? Love the last 20 minutes of “Law and Order?” This book is a law buff’s dream. Three judges have collected essays by
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us -
True Crime: An American Anthology -
Veterans Day: All About War - At Fort Hood, President Obama did what Presidents aren’t supposed to --- he personalized war, he made us see “dead soldiers” as thirteen friends and neighbors, as thirteen dead people.
War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges, a New York Times reporter who has earned the equivalent of a PhD. in war, is the son of a minister who fought in
We Die Alone - SUPPORTING BUTLER: Since the start of 2023, Amazon seems to have gone on a quiet campaign to rid itself of small sites that, collectively, generate revenue worth noticing — and
We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young: La Drang—The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam - Hal Moore died on February 10, 2017 in Auburn, Alabama, a few days before his 95th birthday. In his military career, he reached the heights: United States Army lieutenant general,
