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Book Review: Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News by Dan Rather and Digby Diehl
A riveting memoir of more than six decades as a news reporter.
Read More »Book Review: The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr by H.W. Brands
Aaron Burr's correspondence serves as primary source of portrait of enigmatic historical figure.
Read More »Will The Hunger Games Match the Rose Bowl Films?
Can the Hunger Games fight global hunger like the Rose Bowl films did?
Read More »Book Review: 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart
Goodheart cogently chronicles the political machinations leading to the election of Lincoln, the secession of the Southern states, and the start of the Civil War.
Read More »Book Review: The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair And Its Legacy by Paula Becker and Alan J. Stein
An outstanding account of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, and the legacy it left behind.
Read More »Book Review: The Shooting Salvationist: J. Frank Norris and the Murder Trial that Captivated America by David R. Stokes
Renowned fundamentalist Texas preacher on trial: murder or self defense.
Read More »Book Review: Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell
New biography provides unvarnished portrait of one of America's most famous trial attorneys.
Read More »Book Review: Twenty-Five Books That Shaped America: White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits by Thomas C. Foster
Breezy critical studies of the books that made America.
Read More »Book Review: 1969: The Year Everything Changed by Rob Kirkpatrick
Excellent historical account of a year when extraordinary things occurred month by month.
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