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• 47 Book Review: Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund

  The author vividly and viscerally tells America's Civil Rights Movement "as I have lived it, observed it, heard stories and read about it."

  Review in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Feb 01, 2006

• 46 Book Review: American Vertigo: Traveling America In The Footsteps of Tocqueville by Bernard-Henri Levy

  A Gallic Kerouac hits the road to rediscover Tocqueville's "image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, prejudices, and its passions."

  Review in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 28, 2006

• 45 Book Review: True North by Jim Harrison

  In a tale of industrial and dysfunctional forces, Harrison-style "mental heat, experience, jubilation" is brought to bear on the sins of robber-baron forefathers.

  Review in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 27, 2006

• 44 Hope I Die Before I Get ... Oh, Wait--Never Mind...

  My get up and go must’ve gone out and went out for a pack of cigarettes and never come back.

  Opinion in Culture — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 26, 2006

• 43 Book Review: Due Preparations For The Plague by Janette Turner Hospital

  A complex flux of shifting time and altering perspectives marks this post-9/11 tale of inner struggle, terrorist conspiracy and doomsday complicity.

  Review in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 23, 2006

• 42 Book Review: The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil

  Call for the Smelling Salts!: Mr. Peabody and his Boy Sherman knock your ascot askew and make you swoon with a case of the vapors.

  Review in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 17, 2006

• 41 Book Review: Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa by Marc Estrin

  There's a few bugs in this update of The Metamorphosis, in which the six-foot "larval man of possibility" becomes a cosmopolitan mover and shaker.

  Review in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 15, 2006

• 40 Book Review: A Shortage Of Engineers by Robert Grossbach

  It's the Feel-Stupid Novel of the Decade!!!

  Review in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 12, 2006

• 39 Book Review: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

  Ned Kelly, Aussie outlaw, draws guns and attention--not hard when one of his men shows up for raids and robberies in a dress.

  Review in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 09, 2006

• 38 "Ho Ho Ho, He He He, Ha Ha Ha": Some Favorite Pop & Rock Laugh Lines and Songs

  Oh, I said "I'm so happy, I could die." She said "Drop dead," then left with another guy.

  Opinion in Music — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 06, 2006