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Archive for the ‘Nonfiction’ Category:
The Mighty Wurlitzer, by Hugh Wilford
“It has been decades since the late historian Christopher Lasch wrote his famous essay “The Cultural Cold War” in the Nation, which showed that many postwar American intellectuals had accepted funds from the CIA, and argued that they were as compromised as those artists and intellectuals in Europe and those within the Soviet bloc who
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The Teapot Dome Scandal, by Laton McCartney
“To most Americans younger than, say, 50, the Watergate scandal is a vague affair. Oh sure, they know that it involved a break-in and cost Richard M. Nixon the presidency. But past that, the names and details are fuzzy at best.
The Assist: Hoops, Hope, and The Game of Their Lives, by Neil Swidey
“Now is the winter of every sports fan’s discontent. The sports page these days all too often reads like a rap sheet, if not a treatise on advanced pharmacology.
After Tamerlane, by John Darwin
“In 1860, at the climax of the Second Opium War, a joint English and French army marched on Peking and burned the imperial summer palace to the ground. It was the most dramatic possible demonstration of the accelerating superiority, military and financial, of Europe over the rest of the world.
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History Of the Human Body, by Neil Shubin
“For the first time, Americans have the chance to meet an ancient ancestor. Lucy, the famous 3.2-million-year-old, human-like fossil from Ethiopia, is here on tour.