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Few kids say they want to grow up to be President these days. What this book makes clear is that just about anyone can.

in Books — by Sydney Smith — on Sep 21, 2002

Classic novels are untrustworthy as history, Peter Gay announces. Well duh, Mr. Professor...

in Books: Arts — by — on Sep 21, 2002

You'd think a popular novelist like Jane Smiley would have some insight into Charles Dickens. Unfortunately, she botches the job in her new biography.

in Books: Biography — by — on Sep 21, 2002

If you're looking for an intelligent, left-leaning critique of the war on terror, you're not going to find it in Noam Chomsky's 9-11. The book's a lazily argued, half-assed indictment of American imperialism that won't convince anyone who doesn't already own a "Free Mumia" T-shirt.

in Books — by Gene Healy — on Sep 21, 2002

In Master of the Senate, the third volume of his on-going biography of Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro once again delivers a portrait that is as masterful and mean as his subject.

in Books: Biography — by — on Sep 20, 2002

in Books — by Sean Hackbarth — on Sep 18, 2002

Leo Fender was the one of the un-hippest looking white men ever, and he wasn't even a musician, but somehow, in the early 1950s, he invented two instruments that would create a brand new genre of music: rock and roll.

in Books — by Ed Driscoll — on Sep 11, 2002

Gourevitch on the Rwandan genocide

in Books — by Prentiss Riddle — on Sep 06, 2002

A snappily written collection of slightly over-the-top cultural criticism, with a fairly serious point at the core. If you like that sort of thing, you'll probably enjoy this book, even if you don't know who Farley Mowat is.

in Books — by Chad Orzel — on Sep 05, 2002

Before the Nazis discovered gas, they killed helpless men, women and children the old-fashioned way — with guns and clubs, upclose and face to face. A disturbing new history recounts the hellish beginning of the Holocaust, and how even truly evil people can suffer the psychological consequences of their crimes.

in Books: History — by — on Sep 05, 2002