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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.

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]]> 2009-11-20T08:01:38+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091112_marc_cooper_on_the_fate_of_cesar_chavezs_dream/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091112_marc_cooper_on_the_fate_of_cesar_chavezs_dream/ book, cesar chavez, marc cooper, miriam pawel, review, the union of their dreams, ufw, united farm workers, Book Review

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.

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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.

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]]> 2009-10-30T08:00:47+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091022_jonathan_kirsch_on_the_woman_who_named_god/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091022_jonathan_kirsch_on_the_woman_who_named_god/ bible, book, charlotte gordon, hagar, jonathan kirsch, review, the woman who named god, Book Review

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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]]> 2009-10-23T08:00:03+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091015_michael_kazin_on_dorothea_lange_and_the_great_depression/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091015_michael_kazin_on_dorothea_lange_and_the_great_depression/ biography, book, dancing in the dark, depression, dorothea lange, linda gordon, michael kazin, morris dickstein, review, the great depression, Book Review

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]]> 2009-10-16T08:00:41+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091001_tracy_quan_on_class_anxieties/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091001_tracy_quan_on_class_anxieties/ book, class, julian fellowes, past imperfect, review, tracy quan, Book Review

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]]> 2009-10-02T08:00:39+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090924_eve_pell_on_old_money_and_its_discontents/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090924_eve_pell_on_old_money_and_its_discontents/ book, cheerful money, eve pell, review, tad friend, wasp, Book Review

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]]> 2009-09-25T08:21:15+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090917_joel_kotkin_on_californias_golden_age/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090917_joel_kotkin_on_californias_golden_age/ book, california, golden dreams, joel kotkin, kevin starr, review, Book Review

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]]> 2009-09-18T08:00:39+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090910_benjamin_r_barber_on_alan_wolfes_the_future_of_liberalism/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090910_benjamin_r_barber_on_alan_wolfes_the_future_of_liberalism/ alan wolfe, benjamin r. barber, book, liberalism, review, the future of liberalism, Book Review

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]]> 2009-09-11T08:00:38+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090904_steve_oney_on_john_buntins_la_noir/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090904_steve_oney_on_john_buntins_la_noir/ book, crime, history, john buntin, los angeles, noir, review, steve oney, Book Review By Steve Oney

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