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By Morris. P. Fiorina and Samuel J. Abrams
By Steve Knopper
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Have nonbelievers misunderstood, even as they have mocked, the very concept of God—a concept that has more to do with practice than belief?
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In Theodore Roszak’s spirited new manifesto, he calls on aging baby boomers to rekindle their youthful idealism and remake America.
Posted on Nov 27, 2009
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Christopher Caldwell explores in his recent book what he terms Islam’s “adversary culture” now challenging Europe’s own sense of historical identity.
Posted on Nov 20, 2009
24 COMMENTS
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In her important new book, Miriam Pawel chronicles how a movement to unionize farmworkers failed to realize its charismatic founder’s vision as his relatives turned a union into a family business.
Posted on Nov 13, 2009
34 COMMENTS
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“The Opposite Field,” a memoir by Jesse Katz, is a moving meditation about baseball, politics, and the unease of negotiating a new kind of American place.
Posted on Oct 30, 2009
4 COMMENTS
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Is the biblical tale of Hagar “a creation story as important as the Garden of Eden,” as Charlotte Gordon argues in her provocative new book?
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Two new books explore the cultural achievements of the 1930s that continue to shape the American imagination.
Posted on Oct 16, 2009
61 COMMENTS
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Julian Fellowes’ novel “Past Imperfect” provides a compelling fictive crossroads where the myths and realities of class collide.
Posted on Oct 2, 2009
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Tad Friend’s vivid memoir offers an insider’s guide to the peculiar anthropological habits of America’s now nearly extinct WASP ruling establishment.
Posted on Sep 25, 2009
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Kevin Starr’s newest volume in his magisterial series on California examines the dream of endless prosperity that was, for a time, synonymous with the American dream.
Posted on Sep 18, 2009
11 COMMENTS
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Can liberalism be rescued from those who equate it with treason, terrorism, evil and even a mental disorder?
Posted on Sep 11, 2009
30 COMMENTS
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A rare combination of bravura storytelling and social history, “L.A. Noir” will delight fans of hard-boiled film and fiction even as it challenges the myths of 20th century Los Angeles.
Posted on Sep 4, 2009
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Whatever one thinks of his politics, Elia Kazan was inarguably one of the 20th century’s greatest Broadway and Hollywood directors. A new book reveals the master at work.
Posted on Aug 28, 2009
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Are we entering an age in which the electronic image, endowed with the ability to manufacture its own reality, is hurling us into a state of collective self-delusion? Welcome to a brave new post-literate world where we confuse how we are made to feel with knowledge.
Posted on Aug 14, 2009
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Now 90 years old, America’s exemplary troubadour continues his lifelong project to agitate and organize through song, fulfilling his father’s dictum that “Music, as any art, is not an end in itself, but is a means for achieving larger ends.”
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