Biography

Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America (Hardcover)

By Stephanie Gorton

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ISBN: 9780062796646

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Published: Ecco - February 18th, 2020

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CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and countless other media outlets can trace their roots to McClure's magazine, which held enormous sway molding public opinion in the early 20th Century. The hyperkinetic S.S. McClure, the reserved, forceful Ida Tarbell and aggressive reporters challenged prevailing policies, skewered industrialists, championed unbridled reporting, and in the process changed America. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare

A Year Without a Name: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Cyrus Grace Dunham

$26.00

ISBN: 9780316444965

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Published: Little, Brown and Company - October 15th, 2019

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A selfie of a body in transition. Embarrassed by her breasts and put off by societal expectations, Grace desires masculine embodiment. Cyrus, always consciously present, gradually assumes physical form. The intensely personal transition to honor an honestly gendered identity is rendered unflinchingly, and with grace. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare

I Will Never See the World Again: The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer (Paperback)

By Ahmet Altan, Yasemin Congar (Translated by)

$15.99

ISBN: 9781590519929

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Published: Other Press - October 2019

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A trumped up charge, a dingy cell, no prospect for release: brutal reality becomes tangential for Altan. His memories of life and a lifetime of reading fill his mind and heart, and grant him precisely what his jailers wish to deny: release. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III (Paperback)

By Robert A. Caro

$22.00

ISBN: 9780394720951

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Published: Vintage - April 25th, 2003

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This is the best biography--and quite possibly the best book--I've ever read. Caro is not only a master historian, but a brilliant storyteller, whose narrative weaves in enough depth and breadth of Johnson's world to make you feel as if you were right there. Downright brilliant. ~ Reviewed by Ramsay Eyre

The Wonders: The Extraordinary Performers Who Transformed the Victorian Age (Hardcover)

By John Woolf

$27.95

ISBN: 9781643132204

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Published: Pegasus Books - November 5th, 2019

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The freak flag flew high throughout the Victorian Age: the Queen herself was enthralled by General Tom Thumb. Meanwhile, the Siamese Twins, the Bearded Lady, giants, and other unusual personages were paraded by the likes of P.T. Barnum, and carnivals, sideshows, and midways thronged with spectators. Woolf strips away the bluster to reveal authentic people trapped in alarming bodies, who ought to be remembered not as freaks, but wonders. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare

Crazy Brave (Paperback)

By Joy Harjo

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ISBN: 9780393345438

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - July 29th, 2013

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Harjo is a shapeshifter, weaving ancestral lore and personal memory, lessons, and experiences of beauty and sharp edges that blend into sublime lyrics in her work and her well-lived life. They are one and the same. This memoir exemplifies her desire to "aim in humanizing and healing" as American Poet Laureate. I did not want this book to end. ~ Reviewed by Maeve Noonan