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About A Higher Loyalty
The Guardian : A Higher Loyalty by James Comey review – Hillary’s emails, the election and a loathing for Trump (April 17, 2018)Comey may be self-righteous, but in 2018 and given the alternatives, that has come to look like a rather tolerable vice.
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About A Dangerous Woman
The New York Times : The Amazing Life of a Robber Baron’s Daughter-in-Law, With Caveats (April 13, 2018)“A Dangerous Woman” may fall short in exploring the complexities of a clearly captivating woman, but Ronald’s group portrait of people of great wealth [...] is breathtaking and quite modern.
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About The Kings of Big Spring
Bookreporter : The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream (February 15, 2018)[Mealer] paints a vivid portrait of Big Spring and the alterations to the town and its overarching ethos in the years his family dwelt there.
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About Jackie, Janet & Lee
The New York Times : Nonfiction: In a New Biography of the Bouvier Women, Jealousies Rule (February 20, 2018)These women dealt in surfaces, but that doesn’t mean they lacked depth. They made no achievements by any modern standard, but this deliciously readable book is not in the business of judging: It knows its value better than that.
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About The Wife's Tale
The Guardian : The Wife’s Tale by Aida Edemariam review – anatomy of an unyielding spirit (February 18, 2018)The book is always about Yetemegnu and the capacity for an “ordinary” woman like her to be bold, brave and unconventional within the constraints of her time and place.
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About BRAVE
SF Gate : ‘Brave,’ by Rose McGowan (February 07, 2018)While McGowan can be sanctimonious and self-aggrandizing, young women, particularly the celebrity-obsessed, have much to gain by reading “Brave.”
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About The Audacity of Inez Burns
SF Gate : ‘The Audacity of Inez Burns,’ by Stephen G. Bloom (February 09, 2018)Bloom tells a captivating story of Burns’ ascent, presented alongside San Francisco’s breathtaking transformation in the first decades of the 20th century.
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About The Kings of Big Spring
Kirkus Reviews : The Kings of Big Spring (February 06, 2018)A big, eminently readable story, deftly spun even if with few surprises.
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About Hank and Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
Bookreporter : Hank and Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart (January 08, 2018)Eyman...does a sweet job in portraying how these two icons came to their profession, contrary to the desires of their fathers (who eventually came around).
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About Settle for More
Washington Independent Review of Books : Settle for More: A Memoir (December 30, 2017)Overall, she writes with bawdy good humor and rarely “half-asses it,” as she says.
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About Charles Darwin
Bookreporter : Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker (January 11, 2018)[A]s Darwin himself did so well, A. N. Wilson succeeds by presenting the fascinating and continuing history of evolution in symphonic prose that tangibly sings with his deep passion for the matter at hand.
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About Mean
Bomb Magazine : Myriam Gurba’s Mean by Lauren LeBlanc (January 04, 2018)Mean should be read alongside canonical nonfiction novels such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior. Far from overexposed, autofiction may have only just recently found its stride: unsettling normative storytelling by creating a space for a multitude of voices and histories
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