Posts tagged with ‘Politics’
December 12, 2012
ENGROSSING HISTORY OF the many attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria, and their impact on English society.
Grade: B PLUS
SHOOTING VICTORIA: MADNESS, MAYHEM, AND THE REBIRTH OF THE ENGLISH MONARCHY
Pegasus Books
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social and Cultural Commentary, True Crime
December 5, 2012
THE INCOMPARABLE KENYAN WRITER Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s second volume of memoir juxtaposes political and personal.
Grade: A MINUS
IN THE HOUSE OF THE INTERPRETER: A MEMOIR
Knopf Doubleday
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, African Writers, Black Writers, Kenya, Kenyan Writers, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social and Cultural Commentary
November 13, 2012
FIRST-PERSON STORIES of people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria paint a nuanced picture of the disease’s impact.
Grade: B PLUS
OUR KIND OF PEOPLE: A CONTINENT'S CHALLENGE, A COUNTRY'S HOPE
Harper
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Health, Nigeria, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social and Cultural Commentary
October 4, 2012
POLITICAL COMEDIAN LIZZ WINSTEAD reflects on her career, friends, and family in a set of funny, snarky essays.
Grade: SOLID B
LIZZ FREE OR DIE: ESSAYS
Riverhead
2012
Tags: Essays, Humor, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Politics, Solid B Reviews
September 24, 2012
AN EYE-OPENING OVERVIEW of the history of North Korea from a professor/former National Security Council staffer.
Grade: B PLUS
THE IMPOSSIBLE STATE: NORTH KOREA, PAST AND FUTURE
HarperCollins
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History, Non-Fiction, North Korea, Politics, Social and Cultural Commentary
August 21, 2012
ACID SATIRE ON the US political media industrial complex is laugh out loud funny, yet all too true at times.
Grade: B PLUS
THEY EAT PUPPIES, DON'T THEY?
Hachette/Twelve
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Humor, Novels, Politics
July 10, 2012
ENTHRALLING RECREATION OF the Nixon administration’s Watergate scandal, with vivid characterizations, detail.
Grade: A MINUS
WATERGATE: A NOVEL
Pantheon
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Politics
May 15, 2012
INSIDE THE INTERNET activism that helped to spark the Arab Spring protests, with one of its early organizers.
Grade: SOLID B
REVOLUTION 2.0: THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE IS GREATER THAN THE PEOPLE IN POWER
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2012
Tags: Egypt, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social and Cultural Commentary, Social Media, Solid B Reviews, Technology
March 29, 2012
VIVID PICTURES OF the revolutionary Emma Goldman shine in a short, beautifully-crafted bio by Vivian Gornick.
Grade: SOLID B
EMMA GOLDMAN: REVOLUTION AS A WAY OF LIFE
Yale University Press
2011
Tags: Biography, History, Non-Fiction, Politics, Public Policy, Solid B Reviews