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Subscribe to the lovethebook.com book feed mix using any reader! 6/20/2011
Juan Gonzalez on America's role in Latin America
5/13/2011
Adam Hochschild on how World War I began
4/29/2011
Manning Marable, 1950 - 2011, dies days before publication of his biography of Malcolm X
2/2/2011
Edward Herman and David Peterson on Julian Assange and Luis Posada Carriles
1/28/2011
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
12/1/2010
American scholar Chalmers Johnson, 1931 - 2010
11/8/2010
Susan Reverby has won the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for Examining Tuskegee
10/25/2010
Fractal Mathmematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot, 1924 – 2010
10/21/2010
Mohammed Arkoun, Islamic scholar who explored Enlightenment ideals, 1928-2010
10/10/2010
Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize
9/20/2010
Tariq Ali on "The Obama Syndrome"
9/10/2010
Historian and public intellectual Tony Judt, 1948 - 2010
8/31/2010
Former U.S. Senator James Abourezk on Leaders in Hiding
8/23/2010
David Kirby on something else we feed chickens
8/5/2010
Andrew J. Bacevich on How to Dismantle the American Empire
8/1/2010
Stacy Malkan on Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry
7/10/2010
Joy Gordon on the Invisble War, the United States and Iraq Sanctions
6/26/2010
Tom Engelhardt on the American Way of War
6/25/2010
Writer, critic and activist Carlos Monsiváis, 1938 - 2010
6/8/2010
He is totally unreproducible — he was sui generis — Martin Gardner, 1914 - 2010
6/7/2010
Joe Meadors: I seem to have all the bad luck in the world when it comes to the Israelis.
5/30/2010
Historian Bruce Cumings on the rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula
5/12/2010
How the hell did it happen? - Daniel Okrent on how Prohibition democratized drinking and made the income tax possible
5/6/2010
"We have more than an oil slick out of control, we also have these big corporations out of control." - Marine toxicologist Rikki Ott on the BP and Exxon Valdez oil spills.
4/24/2010
"This is too important. We cannot leave this to governments": Cormac Cullinan on the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights
4/6/2010
Anarchist, poet, publisher and chess-player, John Rety, 1930 - 2010
4/4/2010
"Literature was another victim of the war": Miguel Delibes, 1920 - 2010
3/24/2010
The beautiful brain of Sherman Alexie: War Dances wins 2010 Pen/Faulkner Award
3/13/2010
It's terrible to be possessed by brittle things: Elena Fanailova's The Russian Version wins the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry
3/7/2010
Translator, critic and BBC script editor, Barbara Bray, 1924 - 2010
2/28/2010
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award to D. A. Powell
2/24/2010
The banks have had nine months to creatively increase the real cost of borrowing: Robert Manning on Credit Card Nation
2/9/2010
Robert McChesney and John Nichols the history and necessity of government subsides for US journalism
2/5/2010
Of course, I’d forgotten she’d died: An extract from A Scattering by Christopher Reid, the 2009 Costa Book of the Year
1/30/2010
Tributes to People's Historian Howard Zinn, 1922 - 2010
1/24/2010
Johann Hari on P. W. Singer's Wired For War
1/23/2010
Jamin Raskin on the Supreme Court campaign finance ruling which removes limits on corporate campaign spending
1/16/2010
"Haitians have been punished ever since for claiming their freedom", Tracy Kidder and Peter Hallward on Haiti
1/2/2010
At 42, she was one of the best poets of her generation, Rachel Wetzsteon, 1967 - 2009
12/27/2009
You have to decide which side you are on: there is always a side. Commitment does not exist in an abstraction; it exists in action: Dennis Brutus, 1924 - 2009
12/19/2009
The wedding guests look upon the cracked, pink lips of Rosie's bridegroom - an extract from Petina Gappah's An Elegy for Easterly, the 2009 Guardian First Book Award winning book
12/12/2009
David Cortright on Obama's shallow understanding of the priciples of Just War Theory
11/26/2009
Obama's rejection of Landmine Treaty lacks vision, compassion, and basic common sense
11/22/2009
Those who saw him hushed: Let the Great World Spin, the National Book Award winner by Colum McCann
11/15/2009
Robert Jensen: Of Turkeys and Holocausts
11/8/2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1908 - 2009, his works as a practical anti-racist manifesto
11/7/2009
Power exercised by man over his fellow man is always a usurpation, Francisco Ayala, 1906 - 2009
11/1/2009
If you think you'll to be rich someday, why resent million-dollar bonuses: Barbara Ehrenreich on Positive Thinking
10/21/2009
Four Canadians tortured in the name of fighting Terror, Kerry Pither wins Ottawa Book Award for Dark Days
10/14/2009
The Potato that Became a Tomato, Playgiarist Raymond Federman, 1928 - 2009
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Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center
Daniel Okrent Penguin Books

In this hugely appealing book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, acclaimed author and journalist Daniel Okrent weaves together themes of money, politics, art, architecture, business, and society to tell the story of the majestic suite of buildings that came to dominate the heart of midtown Manhattan and with it, for a time, the heart of the world. At the center of Okrent?s riveting story are four remarkable individuals?tycoon John D. Rockefeller, his ambitious son Nelson Rockefeller, real estate genius John R. Todd, and visionary skyscraper architect Raymond Hood. In the tradition of David McCullough?s ...
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Daniel Okrent Scribner

A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the US Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.

From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing.

Yet we did, and Last Call ...
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Nine Innings
Daniel Okrent Mariner Books

You'll never watch baseball the same way again. A timeless baseball classic and a must read for any fan worthy of the name, Nine Innings dissects a single baseball game played in June 1982 -- inning by inning, play by play. Daniel Okrent, a seasoned writer and lifelong fan, chose as his subject a Milwaukee Brewers<endash>Baltimore Orioles matchup, though it could have been any game, because, as Okrent reveals, the essence of baseball, no matter where or when it's played, has been and will always be the same. In this particular moment of baseball history you will discover myriad aspects ...
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I See a City: Todd Webb's New York
Todd Webb, Sean Corcoran, Daniel Okrent Thames & Hudson

An evocative portrait of New York City in the 1940s and 1950s by master documentary photographer Todd Webb

I See a City: Todd Webb’s New York focuses on the work of photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed the city day and night, in all seasons and in all weather. Buildings, signage, vehicles, the passing throngs, isolated figures, curious eccentrics, odd corners, windows, doorways, alleyways, squares, avenues, storefronts, uptown, and downtown, from the Brooklyn Bridge to Harlem.

The book is a rich portrait ...

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Baseball Anecdotes
Daniel Okrent, Steve Wulf Harpercollins

Two respected sportswriters take a look at baseball's incredible capacity for exhilarating triumphs, heartbreaking losses, amazing blunders, and awe-inspiring feats
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Way We Were: New England Then New England Now
Daniel Okrent Grove Pr

Photographs document everyday life in New England during the late forties and early fifties, and are accompanied by comments on how things have changed since then
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Nine Innings: The Anatomy of Baseball As Seen Through the Playing of a Single Game
Daniel Okrent Mcgraw-Hill Book Co

Explores the many-faceted world of professional baseball, using the June 10, 1982 game between the Brewers and Orioles as a framework for discussing of catchers' signals, the physiology of pitching, owners' balance sheets, and more
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The Ultimate Baseball Book
Daniel Okrent Houghton Mifflin

A baseball lover's dream, combining superb essays, a comprehensive history of the sport, and more than 800 photos with captions.
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Public Editor #1: The Collected Columns of the First Ombudsman of The New York Times
Daniel Okrent PublicAffairs

From December 2003 to May 2005, Daniel Okrent served as the New York Times' first "Public Editor," a position created following the newspaper's Jayson Blair scandal and the tumultuous reign and resignation of Howell Raines as Executive Editor. His mission: read the paper and provide his assessments, without guidance from the paper itself and without fear or favor, of how well it executed its responsibility to provide objective, accurate, and complete coverage of the world-at-large. Not an easy task, but the New York Times chose the right writer for the job. Experienced, wise ...
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American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith: A Library of America Special Publication
Red Smith Library of America

Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith was the most widely read sportswriter of the last century and the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. From the 1940s to the 1980s, his nationally syndicated columns for the New York Herald Tribune and later for The New York Times traversed the world of sports with literary panache and wry humor. “I’ve always had the notion,” Smith once said, “that people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it and have fun again.” Now, writer and editor (and inventor of Rotisserie League Baseball) Daniel Okrent presents ...
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