George Anderson: Notes for a Love Song in Imperial Time by Peter Dimock

On May 4, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

For over twenty-five years, ghost-writer Theo Fales has been helping retired generals and CIA directors justify their decisions in the first-person. One day, however, hearing a song at a colleague’s memorial service, Theo has a vision, sensing in the music a completely different way to live. How can he reconcile this revelation with his professional allegiance to power? Is he mad, or has history itself lost its way?

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Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left, A Biography of the Prominent Historian and Activist by Martin Duberman

On December 9, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Political, by Editor

Howard Zinn was perhaps the best-known and most widely celebrated popular interpreter of American history in the twentieth century, renowned as a bestselling author, a political activist, a lecturer, and one of America’s most recognizable and admired progressive voices.

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Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian by Bernard Lewis and Buntzie Ellis Churchill

On September 17, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Editor

After September 11, Americans who had never given much thought to the Middle East turned to Bernard Lewis for an explanation, catapulting What Went Wrong? and later Crisis of Islam to become number one bestsellers. He was the first to warn of a coming “clash of civilizations,” a term he coined in 1957, and has led an amazing life, as much a political actor as a scholar of the Middle East. In this witty memoir he reflects on the events that have transformed the region since World War II, up through the Arab Spring.

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Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner by John Maxtone-Graham

On April 15, 2012, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Editor

Rather than offering simply a detailed retelling of the Titanic sinking on her maiden voyage, John Maxtone-Graham devotes his considerable knowledge and impeccable prose to a discussion of salient, provocative, and rarely investigated components of the story, including dramatic survivors’ accounts of the events of the fateful night, the role of newly in-vented wireless telecommunication in the disaster, the construction and its ramifications at the famous Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, and the dawn rendezvous with the rescue ship Carpathia.

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