Mitri Raheb. Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, the People, The Bible. Orbis Books. 2023. 184 pages.
Read moreDoyle: Untamed
Untamed. Glennon Doyle. Dial Press 2020. 328 pages.
Read moreFarah: Hemingway's Brain
Hemingway’s Brain. Andrew Farah. University of South Carolina Press. 2017. 194 pages.
Read moreDidion: The White Album
Joan Didion. The White Album. Farrar, Straus and Gireaux. New York. ©1979. Reprint 2009. 223 pages.
Read moreGoodwin: The Bully Pulpit
Doris Kearns Goodwin. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism. Simon and Schuster. 2013. 892 pages.
Read moreDenevi: Freak Kingdom
Timothy Denevi. Freak Kingdom — Hunter S. Thompson’s Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism, 2018 Hachette Book Group. 394 pages.
Read moreCanon: Pleading Out
Dan Canon. Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class. Basic Books. 2022. 324 pages.
Read moreDelmont: Half American
Matthew F. Delmont. Half American: The Epic Story of African-Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad. Viking. 2022. 374 pages.
Read moreGates: Stony the Road
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. Penguin Books. 2019. 320 pages.
Read moreOrwell: Animal Farm
George Orwell: Animal Farm. 1946, 1974 Harcourt Brace & Co. This review is based on a version published by Literature Connections, Animal Farm and Related Readings, McDougal Littell, 1997. 100 pages.
Read moreGoodwin: Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. Doris Kearns. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. 1976,1991, 2019. 432 pages.
Read moreLaurel Canyon's moment in music history: beautiful serendipity or covert ops?
Michael Walker. Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story …
David McGowan. Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon…
How did all these wonderful musicians arrive here at the same time?
How did people who could not really play music become famous musicians, and why did so many end up dead?
Read moreThe Book Smugglers, Paper Bullets, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz. Three stories of resistance.
The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis. David E. Fishman. ForeEdge. 2017.
Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked The Lives to Defy the Nazis. Jeffrey H. Jackson. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 2020.
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz. Lucy Adlington. Harper. 2021.
Read moreAnne Applebaum: Twilight of Democracy
Twilight of Democracy: The seductive lure of authoritarianism. Anne Applebaum, Random House, 2020.
“Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will…”
Read moreElizabeth Hagan: Brave Church
Brave Church: Tackling Tough Topics Together. Elizabeth Hagan. Nashville: Upper Room Books, 2021. 144 pages.
Read moreTom Wicker: A Time to Die
A Time to Die: the Attica Prison Revolt. Tom Wicker. © Haymarket Books 2011, under license from the University of Nebraska Press (1994). 346 pages.
In the next of my “attempts to understand the U.S. of my childhood” series …
Read moreDavid Zucchino: Wilmington's Lie
Wilmington’s Lie: The murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy. David Zucchino. New York: Grove Press. 2020. 426 pages.
Read moreThe Inclusive Bible: Priests for Equality
The Inclusive Bible: The First Egalitarian Translation. Priests for Equality. Sheed & Ward, 2009.
Read moreHarriet A. Washington: A Terrible Thing to Waste:
Harriet A. Washington. A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind. New York: Little, Brown Spark. 2019.
Read morethree journeys on the Camino de Santiago
Tony Kevin. Walking the Camino: a modern pilgrimage to Santiago. Scribe: 2007.
Cathay O. Reta. Keep Walking, Your Heart Will Catch Up: a Camino de Santiago Journey. cathayreta.com. 2020.
Hape Kerkeling (trans. Shelley Frisch). I’m Off Then: Losing and finding Myself on the Camino De Santiago. Free Press. 2006.
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