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Pajamas Media » The Going Rogue Book Tour Draws Crowds and Controversy
Initial sales for Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue, released under the Harper Collins imprint, are going through the roof. The demand for the former Alaska governor's political biography confirms what heartland conservatives have ...
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-going-rogue-book-tour-draws-crowds-and-controversy/
Palin biography makes waves | Naomi Wolf
The tactic of the first half of the book is to compel you to like Sarah Palin through sheer force of her cheery banality. You need to wade through sentences such as: “We were all expected to participate in most everything offered in our ... Women and other so-called 'women's groups' … depict women as passive victims rather than the makers of their own destinies, and overlooks our individuality in favor of a collective political identity that many of us find restrictive. ...
http://naomiwolf.org/2009/11/palin-biography-makes-waves/
RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Heroic Failures
I had only dipped into Louis Harlan's biography on Washington, and I can't remember what I used for Du Bois, as I haven't read David Levering Lewis's book. (Our Ed Blum has since furthered my understanding of Du Bois). ... Norrell's Up from History is expert political biography, occasionally prying inside Washington's often inscrutable mind but primarily performing the same sort of task for Washington as Michael Kazin did for William Jennings Bryan several years back. ...
http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2009/11/heroic-failures.html
Mother India: A Political Biography of Indira Gandhi
Gupte's earlier books, “Mother India: A Political Biography of Indira Gandhi,” was the basis of a major television documentary on Lifetime Network, and received front-page reviews in the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. ...
http://ptsbooksclub.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/mother-india-a-political-biography-of-indira-gandhi/
bookish: Review: Crosstown Traffic
More than just another biography, the book is a broad-based study of African-American music--blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and soul--and how the music influenced, and was influenced by, Hendrix.(amazon) I was really looking forward reading this one, ... I absolutely loved that the author insisted on studying the social and political backgrounds of that period, and he managed to link them cleverly to Hendrix's personal history. Charles Shaar Murray does not hold back his ...
http://community.livejournal.com/bookish/1979376.html
Book Review: The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of his ...
At its core, The Raven King is a book about books. Although nearly half of the book is comprised of a more conventional biography of the king of Hungary, Matthias Corvinus (r. 1458-90), the heart of Marcus Tanner's new monograph is ... This political and military success was made more remarkable by the fact that the previous king of Hungary had executed Corvinus's brother, and that Corvinus himself was imprisoned for several years before his surprise coronation in 1458. ...
http://warandgame.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/book-review-the-raven-king-matthias-corvinus-and-the-fate-of-his-lost-library/
Law Librarian Blog: SCOTUS Has Never Seen the Likes of Associate ...
SCOTUS Has Never Seen the Likes of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia: First Full-Scale Biography Published. From the book description of Joan Biskupic's American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Nov. 10, 2009): ... Combative yet captivating, infuriating yet charming, the outspoken jurist remains a source of curiosity to observers across the political spectrum and on both sides of the ideological divide. ...
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2009/11/scotus-has-never-seen-the-likes-of-associate-justice-antonin-scalia-first-fullscale-biography-publis.html
Religio-Political Talk: Bill Clinton Blames Keith Olbermann for ...
---I must post some biography here for the younger kinfolk who do not know who von Braun is--- Von Braun [1912-1977] was born in Wirsitz (now in Poland) and studied at Berlin and in Switzerland at Zurich. ..... For example: the Inquisitions , Crusades, Salem Witch Trials killed about anywhere from 40000 to 80000 persons combined (World Book Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia Americana), and the church is liable for the unjustified murder of about (taking the high number here) ...
http://religiopoliticaltalk.blogspot.com/2009/11/bill-clinton-blames-keith-olbermann-for.html
Civil War Books and Authors: Author Q & A: Daniel E. Sutherland
I devote about half the course to military history, but also address important political, diplomatic, economic, and social issues. Nor do I play favorites by presenting either a “northern” or “southern” view of the war. .... I have never written exclusively about the war, or even of the war years, and I have always wanted to write a biography. I have found a fascinating subject in Whistler, who, in his own way, might be considered a guerrilla in the world of ...
http://cwba.blogspot.com/2009/11/author-q-daniel-e-sutherland.html
'Walking on the Moon': New Police biography really stings | Brand ...
That conservative outlook really worked in his favor given that the Police emerged just when the political climate was swinging to the right, at the beginning of the Thatcher and Reagan years. ... I'm a fan of the Albert Goldman school of biographies. Rock bios these days (and music books in general, I find) are all so polite. I wanted to write one with a few spikes in the tale. It's not a book that sets out to flatter either them or their fans but, rather, ...
http://www.thisisbrandx.com/2009/11/new-police-biography-really-stings.html
