Tags : “social history”

In Bob Dylan in America Sean Wilentz provides a study of Dylan's influences and source materials and of Dylan himself.

Review in Books — by Rhetta Akamatsu — on Oct 26, 2011

Excellent historical account of a year when extraordinary things occurred month by month.

Review in Books — by Greg Barbrick — on May 10, 2011

Down the XXX rabbit hole: A veteran editor’s experience inside the pornography industry - from print, to pictorials, to X-rated movies, to phone sex.

Review in Books — by David Comfort — on Feb 15, 2011

Post-war Brooklyn is the setting as the son of Holocaust survivors shares his graphic memoir of richly-rendered anecdotes, black-and-white drawings, documents, photos, and artifacts.

Review in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Dec 27, 2010

"We were captivated, mesmerized, hypnotized. Thus, Eve Arden, who played a school teacher, received offers to be a school teacher in real life."

Interview in Books — by Scott Butki — on Nov 11, 2010

“Orator and entrepreneur, statesman and pioneer, depressive and overachiever”: Meet one of the original 'Mad Men' who made SunKist, Kleenex, Quaker Oats, Palmolive, and Pepsodent household names.

Review in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Sep 06, 2010

Unsympathetic, poorly researched attempt at social history.

Review in Books — by Natalie Bennett — on Jul 11, 2010

“Today the richest ten percent earns five to six times that of the poorest ten percent.”

Review in Books — by Helen Gallagher — on May 06, 2010

A historical biography of the great women writers who helped cultivate the landscape of American literature.

Review in Books — by A Geek Girl — on Apr 05, 2010

Were "apocalyptic dread and conspiratorial fever," not disco and platform shoes, the hallmark of the 1970s?

Review in Books — by Tim Gebhart — on Mar 18, 2010