Posts tagged with ‘United States’
June 16, 2013
ENGAGING HISTORY LOOKS at eight 19th-century US women attorneys, reveals much about challenges they faced.
Grade: SOLID B
REBELS AT THE BAR: THE FASCINATING, FORGOTTEN STORIES OF AMERICA'S FIRST WOMEN LAWYERS
New York University Press
2013
Tags: History, Legal History, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, United States, Women's Issues
May 24, 2013
SEEKING A “PROMISED LAND” in Israel, Africa, and the US South, a writer looks compellingly at race and faith.
Grade: B PLUS
SEARCHING FOR ZION: THE QUEST FOR HOME IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Grove/Atlantic
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Black History, Ethiopia, Ghana, History, Israel, Jamaica, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Race and Ethnicity, Religion and Spirituality, Social and Cultural Commentary, United States
April 26, 2013
EARLY TORNADO CHASERS in the US, from Ben Franklin through the 20th century, profiled in a lively history.
Grade: B PLUS
STORM KINGS: THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF AMERICA'S FIRST TORNADO CHASERS
Pantheon
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History, History of Science, Non-Fiction, Science, United States, Weather and Climate
February 23, 2013
ENCYCLOPEDICALLY CREEPY HISTORY of US mass murderers and serial killers, from the 18th century through today.
Grade: SOLID B
PSYCHO USA: FAMOUS AMERICAN KILLERS YOU NEVER HEARD OF
Ballantine
2012
Tags: History, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, True Crime, United States
February 17, 2013
COMPELLING, DEEPLY RESEARCHED history of racial segregation and integration in the US military. Eye-opening!
Grade: B PLUS
THE DOUBLE V: HOW WARS, PROTEST, AND HARRY TRUMAN DESEGREGATED AMERICA'S MILITARY
Bloomsbury USA
2013
Tags: African American Writers, B Plus Reviews, Black History, History, Military History, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, United States
August 7, 2012
THE LINDBERGH BABY KIDNAPPING, reviewed and reopened in the light of memories from New York’s German community.
Grade: SOLID B
CEMETERY JOHN: THE UNDISCOVERED MASTERMIND BEHIND THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING
Overlook Press
2012
Tags: History, New York City, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, True Crime, United States
August 1, 2012
THOUGHT-PROVOKING MEMOIR combined with in-depth reportage on troubled Colorado nuclear facility Rocky Flats.
Grade: B PLUS
FULL BODY BURDEN: GROWING UP IN THE NUCLEAR SHADOW OF ROCKY FLATS
Crown
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Environmentalism, History, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, United States
July 13, 2012
OFFBEAT, ENTERTAINING SCHOLARLY study of the US Jewish community’s role in our alcohol industry and culture.
Grade: SOLID B
JEWS AND BOOZE: BECOMING AMERICAN IN THE AGE OF PROHIBITION
New York University Press
2012
Tags: History, Judaism, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, Social History, Solid B Reviews, United States
May 8, 2012
FASCINATING TRUE STORY of a 1919 confidence game (and the victim’s revenge) sheds light on the history of scams.
Grade: B PLUS
THE MARK INSIDE: A PERFECT SWINDLE, A CUNNING REVENGE, AND A SMALL HISTORY OF THE BIG CON
Knopf
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, Social History, Texas, True Crime, United States
April 28, 2012
IMPECCABLY RESEARCHED BIOGRAPHY of the fascinating 19th century American Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller.
Grade: B PLUS
THE LIVES OF MARGARET FULLER: A BIOGRAPHY
W. W. Norton & Company
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, History, Literary History, Non-Fiction, United States, Women's Issues