Reviews
Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative, by Glenn C. Loury. The Florida Courier, May 10, 2024
In The Shadow Of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States, by Ana Raquel Minian. The Jerusalem Post, May 2, 2024
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 21, 2024
Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters, by Susan Page. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 17, 2024
Is College Worth It?: Class and the Myth of the College Premium, by Richard Ohmann and Ira Shor. Inside Higher Ed, (co-authored with David Wippman), April 12, 2024
Hell Put To Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America’s Second Slavery, by Earl Swift. The Florida Courier, April 5, 2024
The Anxious Generation: How The Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing An Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 21, 2024 (reposted in National League of Cities, nlc.hu, Budapest, Hungary April 8, 2024)
The Black Box: Writing the Race, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Florida Courier, March 15, 2024
Leaving: A Novel, by Roxana Robinson. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 27, 2024
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool, by James Kaplan. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 27, 2024 (and 8 other media outlets)
Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed A Country and Its Sounds, by Michael Broyles. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 26, 2024
Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed A Country and Its Sounds, by Michael Broyles. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 25, 2024
Brought Forth On This Continent: Abraham Lincoln And American Immigration, by Harold Holzer. The Florida Courier, February 23, 2024
Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words, by Boel Westin. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 19, 2024
“The Veteran ‘Post’ Book Reviewer Shares His Life Story.” The Jerusalem Post, February 18, 2024
Attacking The Elites: What Critics Get Wrong—and Right About America’s Leading Universities, by Derek Bok. Inside Higher Education (co-authored with David Wippman), February 16, 2024
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, The C.I.A., And The Origins Of America’s Invasion Of Iraq, by Steve Coll. The Jerusalem Post, February 5, 2024
Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs, by Benjamin Herold. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 5, 2024
John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community, by Raymond Arsenault. The Florida Courier, January 27, 2024
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point, by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt. The Jerusalem Post, January 27, 2024
They Flew: A History of the Impossible, by Carlos Eire. The Jerusalem Post, January 19, 2024
Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence, by Yaroslav Trofimov. The Jerusalem Post, January 5, 2023
Lifting the Chains: The Black Freedom Struggle Since Reconstruction, by William H. Chafe. The Florida Courier, December 29, 2023
The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street And Shaped Modern America, by Daniel Schulman. The Jerusalem Post, December 16, 2023
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song, by Judith Tick. The Florida Courier, December 15, 2023
American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860, by Edward L. Ayers. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 11, 2023
Never Again: Germans And Genocide After The Holocaust, by Andrew I. Port. The Jerusalem Post, November 17, 2023
The Cost Of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, And An American Inheritance, by Rebecca Clarren. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 12, 2023
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, by Jennifer Burns. The Messenger, November 11, 2023
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondswoman’s Narrative, by Gregg Hecimovich. The Florida Courier, November 10, 2023
How To Know A Person: The Art Of Seeing Others Deeply And Being Deeply Seen, by David Brooks. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 7, 2023
Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East, by Uri Kaufman. The Jerusalem Post, October 28, 2023
Elon Musk, by Walter Isaacson. The Messenger, October 28, 2023
The Synthetic University: How Higher Education Can Benefit From Shared Solutions And Save Itself, by James L. Shulman (co-authored with David Wippman). Inside Higher Ed, October 20, 2023
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, by Robert M. Sapolsky. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 17, 2023
Fields of Play: Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City, by Robert T. Hayashi. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 14, 2023
Let Us Descend: A Novel, by Jesmyn Ward. The Florida Courier, October 13, 2023
The Cancelling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott (co-authored with David Wippman). The Messenger, October 7, 2023
This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity, by Richard Deming. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 3, 2023
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, by Heather Cox Richardson. The Messenger, September 30, 2023
Defer We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America, by Steve Inskeep. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 29, 2023
Before The Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, by Dylan C. Penningroth. The Florida Courier, September 22, 2023
The Fraud: A Novel, by Zadie Smith. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 16, 2023
The Dissident: A Novel, by Paul Goldberg. The Jerusalem Post, September 9, 2023
A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism, by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein. The Messenger, September 2, 2023 (and 2 other media outlets)
The Great White Bard: How To Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race, by Farah Karim-Cooper. The Florida Courier, September 1, 2023
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin and the Miraculous Survival of My Family, by Daniel Finkelstein. The Jerusalem Post, August 26, 2023
Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein and Leah Rothstein. The Florida Courier, August 18, 2023
24/7 Politics: Cable Television & The Fragmenting of America From Watergate to Fox News, by Kathryn Cramer Brownell. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 19, 2023
Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism, by Magda Teter. The Jerusalem Post, August 12, 2023
Religicide: Confronting the Roots of Anti-Religious Violence, by Georgette Bennett and Jerry White. The Jerusalem Post, August 12, 2023
August Wilson: A Life, by Patti Hartigan. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 12, 2023
Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble, by Madeleine Blais. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 10, 2023
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class, by Blair Kelley. The Florida Courier, July 28, 2023
The Country of the Blind, by Andrew Leland. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 23, 2023
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream, by Peter Moore. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 9, 2023
Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being in Person, by Andy Field. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 4, 2023
A Madman’s Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves and the Mirage of Freedom, by Gregory May. The Florida Courier, July 1, 2023
Escape To Aswan: A Novel, by Amal Sedky Winter. The Jerusalem Post, July 1, 2023
Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street, by Jackson Lears. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 24, 2023
Being a NationState in the TwentyFirst Century: Between State and Synagogue in Modern Israel, by Shuki Friedman. The Jerusalem Post, June 3, 2023
Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone, by Amy Key. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 30,2023
The Soldier’s Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II, by David Chrisinger. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 28, 2023
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains The World, by Henry Grabar. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 20, 2023
The Wounded World: W.E.B. DuBois And The First World War, by Chad L. Williams. The Florida Courier, May 19, 2023
King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 12, 2023 (and in 51 other media outlets)
Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods, by Mariana Alessandri. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 9, 2023
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, by Timothy Egan. The Florida Courier, April 28, 2023
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions, by Jonathan Rosen. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 26, 2023
The Point Of No Return: American Democracy at the Crossroads, by Thomas Byrne Edsall. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 16, 2023
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, A Murder, And The Hijacking Of History, by Benjamin Balint. The Jerusalem Post, April 15, 2023
Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco, by Stephan Talty. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 7, 2023 (reprinted in the Miami Herald and 60 other media outlets)
Volodymyr Zelensky In His Own Words, edited and translated by Lisa Rogak and Daisy Gibbons. The Jerusalem Post, April 1, 2023
Skinfolk: A Memoir, by Matthew Pratt Guterl. The Florida Courier, March 24, 2023
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journey Through American Slavery and Independence, by David Waldstreicher. The Florida Courier, March 10, 2023
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Dementia and the Hidden Workings of the Mind, by Dasha Kiper. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 1, 2023
I Am Still With You: A Reckoning With Silence, Inheritance, and History, by Emmanuel Iduma. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 24, 2023
Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings, by Randall Kenan. The Florida Courier, February 10, 2023
Profiles in Peace: Voices of Peacebuilders in the Midst of the IsraeliPalestinian Conflict, by Ron Kronish. The Jerusalem Post, February 3, 2023
ZigZag Boy: A Memory of Madness and Motherhood, by Tanya Frank. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 31, 2023
Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, And The Rise Of An American Dynasty, by Andrew Meier. The Jerusalem Post, January 21, 2023
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction, by Kidada Williams. The Florida Courier, January 20, 2023
Kennan: A Life Between Worlds, by Frank Costigliola. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 20, 2023 (and 53 other media outlets)
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life, by Dacher Keltner. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 3, 2023
The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America, by Philip Bump. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 1, 2023
How To Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times, by Chris Bailey. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 27, 2022
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation 17651795, by Edward J. Larson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 24, 2022
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery In An American Family, by Kerri K. Greenidge. The Florida Courier, December 23, 2022
Hollywood: The Oral History, by Jeannine Basinger and Sam Wasson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 18, 2022
Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him To Freedom, by Andrew Nagorski. The Jerusalem Post, December 17, 2022
The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest 18001900, by Jon Lauck. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 9, 2022 (and 61 other media outlets).
Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad, by Andrew K. Diemer. The Florida Courier, December 3, 2022
War By Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance, by Daniel Akst. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 2, 2022
Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy, by Timothy Shenk. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 20,2022
The Fun Habit: How the Disciplined Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life, by Mike Rucker. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 15, 2022
The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America, by H.W. Brands. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 6, 2022
Looking For An Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism, edited by Jo Glanville. The Jerusalem Post, November 5, 2022
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II At Home And Abroad, by Matthew F. Delmont. The Florida Courier, November 4, 2022
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, by Walter Russell Mead. The Jerusalem Post, October 22, 2022
The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City, by Nicholas Dawidoff. The Florida Courier, October 14, 2022
The Book of Phobias & Manias: A History of Obsession, by Kate Summerscale. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 29, 2022
The Only Woman In The Room: Golda Meir And Her Path To Power, by Pnina Lahav. The Jerusalem Post, September 4, 2022
Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment, by Brad Snyder. The Pittsburg PostGazette, September 5, 2022
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, by Margaret Burnham. The Florida Courier, September 2, 2022
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change, by W. David Marx. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 30, 2022
Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird, by Gene Andrew Jarrett. The Florida Courier, August 12, 2022
Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide: Denial, State Deception, Truth Versus Politicization of History, by Israel W. Charny. The Jerusalem Post, August 6, 2022
Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions, by Batja Mesquita. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 2, 2022
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals, by David Hackett Fischer. The Florida Courier, July 24, 2022
New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State, by William J. Novak. The Pittsburg PostGazette, July 16, 2022
Who Killed Jane Stanford? A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a University, by Richard White. The Pittsburg PostGazette, July 2, 2022
Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 19391945, by Halik Kochanski. The Jerusalem Post, July 1, 2022
A Lynching At Port Jervis: Race And Reckoning In The Gilded Age, by Philip Dray. The Florida Courier, July 1, 2022
Jacob’s Younger Brother: ChristianJewish Relations After Vatican II, by Karma BenJohanan. The Jerusalem Post, June 18, 2022
O Say Can You Hear? A Cultural Biography of The StarSpangled Banner, by Mark Clague. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 17, 2022
The Walls Around Opportunity: The Failure of Colorblind Policy for Higher Education, by Gary Orfield. The Florida Courier, June 11, 2022
The Steal: The Attempt To Overthrow The 2020 Election And The People Who Stopped It, by Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague. The Pittsburg PostGazette, June 4, 2022
Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History, by Timothy Hampton. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 24, 2022
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and The Struggle for Racial Justice, by Robert Samuel and Toluse Olorunnipa. The Florida Courier, May 20, 2022
The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death, by Sam Knight. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 3, 2022
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis De Tocqueville, by Olivier Zunz. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 29, 2022 (and 58 other media outlets)
A Progressive History of American Democracy Since 1945: American Dreams, Hard Realities, by Chris J. Magoc. The Pittsburg PostGazette, April 23, 2022
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure,” by Yascha Mounk. The Florida Courier, April 22, 2022
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest To Cure Mental Illness, by Andrew Scull. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 20, 2022 (designated an “Essential Topic”)
The Wealthy: Chronicle of a Jewish Family (17631948), by Hamutal BarYosef. The Jerusalem Post, April 7, 2022
One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs Of An Attorney General, by William P. Barr. The Pittsburg PostGazette, April 3, 2022
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe, by Keith O’Brien. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 29, 2022
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties, by David De Jong. The Jerusalem Post, March 24, 2022
The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against The Slave Trade, by A.E. Rooks. The Pittsburg PostGazette, March 20, 2022
Smashing Statues: The Rise And Fall Of America’s Public Monuments, by Erin L. Thompson. The Florida Courier, March 19, 2022
The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States, by Brian Hochman. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 8, 2022
Prophets Without Honor: The 2000 Camp David Summit and the End of the TwoState Solution, by Shlomo BenAmi. The Jerusalem Post, March 3, 2022
Europe’s Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp’s Golden Age, by Michael Pye. The Jerusalem Post, February 25, 2022
One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival, by Donald Antrim (in Death and AntiDeath, Volume 19, edited by Charles Tandy, Ria University Press, 2022)
White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White And America’s Darkest Secret, by A.J. Baime. The Florida Courier, February 11, 2022
Doom: The Politics Of Catastrophe, by Niall Ferguson. The Pittsburg PostGazette, February 6, 2022
Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care, by John Abramson. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 1, 2022
American Shtetl: The Making of Kirvas Joel, A Hasidic Village in Upstate New York, by Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers. The Jerusalem Post, January 27, 2022
The Fifties: An Underground History, by James R. Gaines. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 21, 2022
Born In Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War, by Howard W. French. The Florida Courier, January 21, 2022
Grief: A Philosophical Guide, by Michael Cholbi. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 11, 2022
The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 17731783,” by Joseph J. Ellis. The Pittsburg PostGazette, January 11, 2022
The Rage Of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth, by Kristin Henning. The Florida Courier, December 27, 2021
The Transcendentalists And Their World, by Robert A. Gross. The Minneapolis Star Tribune (and 83 other media outlets), December 17, 2021
Colorization: One Hundred Years Of Black Films In A White World, by Wil Haygood. The Florida Courier, December 7, 2021
The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, And The Search For Truth, by Meriel Schindler. The Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2021
A Brave And Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough And The War For America, by James Horn. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 19, 2021 (and 76 media outlets)
The Last King Of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III, by Andrew Roberts. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 12, 2021
American Afterlives: Reinventing Death In The 21st Century, by Shannon Lee Dawdy. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 9, 2021
Vindicating Shakespeare: A Theater Director’s Study of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice, by Stephen Byk. The Jerusalem Post, November 11, 2021
Three Girls From Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir Of Race, Fate, And Sisterhood, by Dawn Turner. The Florida Courier, November 5, 2021
The Shattering: America In The 1960s, by Kevin Boyle. The Minneapolis Star Tribune (and 59 media outlets), October 22, 2021
Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History, And Culture, by Randall Kennedy. The Florida Courier, October 15, 2021
Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical, by Shaul Magid. The Jerusalem Post, October 14, 2021
People Love Dead Jews, by Dara Horn. The Jerusalem Post, October 7, 2021
Squirrel Hill: The Tree Of Life Synagogue Shooting And The Soul Of A Neighborhood, by Mark Oppenheimer. The Pittsburg PostGazette, October 5, 2021
Rationality: What It Is. Why It Seems Scarce. Why It Matters. By Steven Pinker. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 28, 2021
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom Of Black Life And Literature, by Farah Jasmine Griffin. The Florida Courier, September 25, 2021
Survival Of The City: Living And Thriving In A Life Of Isolation, by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 14, 2021
The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always Been Unequal—And How To Set Them Right, by Adam Harris. The Florida Courier, August 28, 2021
Metropolitan Stories: A Novel, by Christine Coulson. The Jerusalem Post, August 26, 2021
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, And The Impeachment Of Andrew Johnson, by Robert S. Levine. The Florida Courier, August 13, 2021
Reign Of Terror: How The 9/11 Era Destabilized America And Produced Trump, by Spencer Ackerman. The Pittsburg PostGazette, August 8, 2021
Public Citizens: The Attack On Big Government And The Remaking Of American Liberalism, by Paul Sabin. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 3, 2021
Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America In Black And White, by Patricia Sullivan. The Florida Courier, July 24, 2021
If Anyone Calls, Tell Them I Died: A Memoir, by Emanuel Rosen. The Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2021
The Free World: Art and Thought In The Cold War, by Louis Menand. The Pittsburg PostGazette, July 20, 2021
When Evil Lived In Laurel: The White Knights And The Murder Of Vernon Dahmer, by Curtis Wilkie. The Florida Courier, July 11, 2021
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter, by Kai Bird. The Pittsburg PostGazette, July 4, 2021
The Plague Year: America In The Time Of COVID, by Lawrence Wright. The Pittsburg PostGazette, June 20, 2021
A Sense Of Self: Memory, The Brain, And Who We Are, by Veronica O’Keane. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 15, 2021
How To Avoid A Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have And The Breakthroughs We Need, by Bill Gates. The Pittsburg PostGazette, June 8, 2021
The Luckiest Guy In The World: My Journey In Politics, by Robert Abrams. The Jerusalem Post, June 3, 2021
Justice Deferred: Race And The Supreme Court, by Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner. The Florida Courier, May 30, 2021
Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, And The New Battleground Of The Cold War, by Jeff Shesol. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 28, 2021 (and also appeared in 74 media outlets, including The Sacramento Bee)
Let’s Talk About Hard Things, by Anna Sale. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 25, 2021
China Vs. Democracy: The Greatest Game: A Handbook For Democracies, by Robin Shepherd. The Jerusalem Post, May 19, 2021
American Republics: A Continental History Of The United States, 17831850, by Alan Taylor. The Pittsburg PostGazette, May 16, 2021
Unexpected Life: A Short History Of Living Longer, by Steven Johnson. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 11, 2021
Traveling Black: A Story Of Race And Resistance, by Mia Bay. The Florida Courier, May 9, 2021 (also published in the Michigan Chronicle, July 1, 2021)
What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract For A Better Society, by Minouche Shafik. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 30, 2021
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson And The Art Of Black Teaching, by Jarvis R. Givens. The Florida Courier, April 18, 2021
Philip Roth: The Biography, by Blake Bailey. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 2, 2021
The Wondering Jew: Israel And The Search For Jewish Identity, by Micah Goodman. The Jerusalem Post, April 1, 2021
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From The Revolution To Reconstruction, by Kate Masure. The Florida Courier, March 28, 2021
Useful Delusions: The Power And Paradox Of The SelfDeceiving Brain, by Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 23, 2021
Songs In Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry Of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine, by Amelia M. Glaser. The Jerusalem Post, March 19, 2021
The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir, by Sherry Turkle. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 9, 2021
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, And The Future Of The Human Race, by Walter Isaacson. The Pittsburg PostGazette, March 7, 2021
Survival On The Margins, by Eliyana Adler. The Jerusalem Post, March 11, 2021
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song, by Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Florida Courier, February 27, 2021
The Rope: A True Story Of Murder, Heroism, And The Dawn Of The NAAP, by Alex Tresniowski. The Florida Courier, February 21, 2021
When Brains Dream: Exploring The Science And Mystery Of Sleep, by Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 16, 2021
This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends: The Cyber Weapons Race, by Nicole Perlroth. The Pittsburg PostGazette, February 7, 2021
American Baby: A Mother, A Baby, And The Shadow History Of Adoption, by Gabrielle Glaser. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 26, 2021
White Freedom: The Racial History Of An Idea, by Tyler Stovall. The Florida Courier, January 24, 2021
Nine Days: The Race To Save Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life And Win The 1960 Election, by Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick. The Pittsburg PostGazette, January 17, 2021
From Babylon to Jerusalem, by Aharon Nathan. The Jerusalem Post, January 14, 2021
Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created The Stigma Of Mental Illness, by Roy Richard Grinker. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 12, 2021
Drives Human Invention, by Simon BaronCohen. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 28, 2020
First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned From The Greeks And Romans And How That Shaped Our Country, by Thomas E. Ricks. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 15, 2020
How To Start A War: How The Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq, by Robert Draper. The Pittsburg PostGazette, November 22, 2020
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science, by Michael Strevens. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 17, 2020
The Dead are Rising: The Life of Malcolm X, by Les Payne and Tamara Payne. The Florida Courier, November 7, 2020
Righteous Kill, by Ted Lapkin. The Jerusalem Post, November 5, 2020
Never Alone: Prison, Politics and My People, by Natan Sharansky. The Jerusalem Post, October 23, 2020
In Deep: The FBI, The CIA, And The Truth About America’s Deep State, by David Rohde. The Pittsburg PostGazette, October 20, 2020
The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, by Robert Reich. The Pittsburg PostGazette (online). October 18, 2020
Hate In The Homeland: The New Global Far Right, by Cynthia MillerIdriss. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 18, 2020 (the review was named an “Essential Topic” and “Essential Home”)
The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and The Struggle for Black Freedom, by Eddie R. Cole. The Florida Courier, October 18, 2020
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life, by Jonathan Alter. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 16, 2020
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and The Power of Hope, by Jon Meacham. The Florida Courier, September 26, 2020
The Man Who Ran Washington, by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 25, 2020
Voice, Choice, and Action: The Potential of Young Citizens To Heal Democracy, by Felton Earls and Mary Carlson. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 15, 2020
The Last Million, by David Nasaw. The Jerusalem Post, September 10, 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. The Florida Courier, September 9, 2020
Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 19761980, by Rick Perlstein. The Pittsburg PostGazette, August 30, 2020
The President Vs. The Press, by Harold Holzer. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 21, 2020
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir, by Natasha Trethewey. The Florida Courier, August 19, 2020
Older and Wiser: New Ideas for Youth Mentoring in the 21st Century. By Jean E. Rhodes. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 18, 2020
Saving Ruby King: A Novel, by Catherine Adel West. The Florida Courier, August 15, 2020.
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close, by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 22, 2020
Make Russia Great Again: A Novel, by Christopher Buckley. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 19, 2020
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. The Florida Courier, July 18, 2020
Promised Land: How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 19291968, by David Stebenne. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 10, 2020
Keep Saying Their Names, by Simon Stranger. The Jerusalem Post, July 10, 2020
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win, by Maria Konnikova. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 30, 2020
True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Spotting Fake News, by Cindy L. Otis. The Jerusalem Post, June 26, 2020
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, by Joshua Bennett. The Florida Courier, June 22, 2020
Grown Ups: A Novel, by Emma Jane Unsworth. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 15, 2020
Money, Blood and Conscience: Love. Terror. The Crime of the Century. A Novel, by David Steinman. The Jerusalem Post, June 12, 2020
The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace, by Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf. The Jerusalem Post, May 29, 2020
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, by Robert Kolker. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 17, 2020
Redhead by the Side of the Road: A Novel, by Anne Tyler. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 14, 2020
Blood Libel: On the Trail of an AntiSemitic Myth, by Magda Teter. The Jerusalem Post, May 8, 2020
The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception, by David Michaels. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 26, 2020
Navigate Your Stars, by Jesmyn Ward. The Florida Courier, April 24, 2020
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life, by John Kaag. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 21, 2020
Einstein in Bohemia, by Michael D. Gordin. The Jerusalem Post, April 17, 2020
The End of October, by Lawrence Wright. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 14, 2020
The Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn’t Work, by Donald F. Kettle. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 5, 2020
Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s FiftyYear Battle for a More Unjust America, by Adam Cohen. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 29, 2020
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife, by Bart D. Ehrman. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 26, 2020
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future, by James Shapiro. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 16, 2020
The Storm Before the Calm: America’s Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond, by George Friedman. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 15, 2020
To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America, by Felicia Angeja Viator. The Florida Courier, March 6, 2020
American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change, by Emily Sigalow. The Jerusalem Post, February 28, 2020
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era, by Jerry Mitchell. The Florida Courier, February 22, 2020
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 31, 2020
Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond, by Lydia Denworth. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 27, 2020 (the review was named an “Essential Topic” and “Essential Home”)
Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About It, by Christopher T. Robertson. The Florida Courier, January 24, 2020
The Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia, by P.E. Caquet. The Jerusalem Post, January 24, 2020
Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ LifeandDeath Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe, by Laurel Leff. The Jerusalem Post, January 17, 2020
The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us, by Paul Tough. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 12, 2020
Prospective Longevity: A New Vision of Population Aging, by Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 7, 2020
Bitter Reckoning: Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators, by Dan Porat. The Jerusalem Post, January 3, 2020
Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone, by Charles Moore. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 29, 2019
Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo, by Alan Dershowitz. The Jerusalem Post, December 13, 2019 (appeared in Beijing News, December 14, 2019)
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present, by Frank M. Snowden. The Florida Courier, December 13, 2019
The Letters of Cole Porter, edited by Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 8, 2019
The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness, by Susannah Cahalan. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 4, 2019
Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream, by Nicholas Lemann. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 24, 2019
Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For, by Susan Rice. The Florida Courier, November 19, 2019
Antisocial: Online Extremists, TechnoUtopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, by Andrew Marantz. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 5, 2019
The Water Dancer: A Novel, by TaNehisi Coates. The Florida Courier, October 27, 2019
Thomas Jefferson’s Education, by Alan Taylor. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 17, 2019
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth, by Rachel Maddow. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, October 13, 2019
Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being, by Agustín Fuentes. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 8, 2019
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, by Christopher Leonard. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, October 6, 2019
The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America, by Nicholas Buccola. The Florida Courier, October 4, 2019
The Nickel Boys: A Novel, by Colson Whitehead. The Florida Courier, September 20, 2019
Talk Radio’s America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States, by Brian Rosenwald. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 15, 2019
The Last Train to London: A Novel, by Meg Waite Clayton. The Jerusalem Post, September 12, 2019
Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America, by Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 26, 2019
Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 18401917, by Dale Cockrell. The Florida Courier, August 23, 2019
Barnum: An American Life, by Robert Wilson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 18, 2019
The Assault on American Excellence, by Anthony Kronman. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 15, 2019
Lincoln’s Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation, by Douglas Waller. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 11, 2019
The Song of the Jade Lily: A Novel, by Kirsty Manning. The Jerusalem Post, July 30, 2019
Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary, by John Clubbe. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 28, 2019
The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s TenYear Road Trip, by Jeff Guinn. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 28, 2019
The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America’s First Black Sports Hero, by Michael Kranish. The Florida Courier, July 19, 2019
The Art of Inventing Hope: Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel, by Howard Reich. The Jerusalem Post, July 14, 2019
If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years, by Christopher Benfey. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 7, 2019
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, by Clive Thompson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 25, 2019
The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction, by Daniel Brook. The Florida Courier, June 21, 2019
Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth, by Jodi Magness. The Jerusalem Post, June 7, 2019
Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition, by Patricia S. Churchland. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 4, 2019
The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation, by Brenda Wineapple. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 26, 2019
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide, by Tony Horwitz. The Florida Courier, May 24, 2019
The Heartland: An American History, by Kristin L. Hoganson. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 17, 2019
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, by Anthony Abraham Jack. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 12, 2019
A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father, by David Maraniss. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 9, 2019
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, by David McCullough. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 5, 2019
Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America, by Matthew FoxAmato. The Florida Courier, May 1, 2019
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11, by Mitchell Zuckoff. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 28, 2019
The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality, by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 14, 2019
Blood in the Water: How the US and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty, by Joan Mellen. The Jerusalem Post, April 12, 2019
The Power of Cute, by Simon May. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 9, 2019
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Florida Courier, April 3, 2019
The Lion’s Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky, by Susie Linfield. The Forward, March 31, 2019
Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer? And Other Essays, by Adam Kirsch. The Jerusalem Post, March 29, 2019
Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason, by Justin E. Smith. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 26, 2019
The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, by Andrew McCabe. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 24, 2019
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, by Jennifer L. Eberhardt. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 19, 2019
Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodward and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring, by Richard Gergel. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 17, 2019
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation, by Steve Luxenberg. The Florida Courier, February 15, 2019
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, by Stephanie E. JonesRogers. The Florida Courier, February 8, 2019
American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology, by D.W. Pasulka. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 5, 2019
Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn’t, by Edward Humes. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 3, 2019
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts, by Jill Abramson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 1, 2019
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us, by Joseph J. Ellis. The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 20, 2019
The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World, by Robert Mnookin. The Jerusalem Post, January 11, 2019
Button Man: A Novel, by Andrew Gross. The Jerusalem Post, January 4, 2019
The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today, by Jack Wertheimer. The Forward, December 31, 2018
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 19451975, by Max Hastings. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 28, 2018
Becoming, by Michelle Obama. The Florida Courier, December 14, 2018
As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon, by Daniel T. Rodgers. The Florida Courier, December 14, 2018
Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo, by Seth Anziska; Catch67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the SixDay War, by Micah Goodman. The Forward, December 14, 2018
Churchill: Walking with Destiny, by Andrew Roberts. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 11, 2018
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, by Andrew Delbanco. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 7, 2018
The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies, by Dawn Raffel. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 7, 2018
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts, by Chris McGreal. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 7, 2018
The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s SingleMinded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, by Deborah Blum. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 25, 2018
House of Gold: A Novel, by Natasha Solomons. The Jerusalem Post, November 23, 2018
Help! The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration, by Thomas Brothers. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 16, 2018
On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News, by Matthew Pressman. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 13, 2018
The Fifth Risk, by Michael Lewis. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 11, 2018
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life, by Jane Sherron De Hart. The Jerusalem Post, November 9, 2018
Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, by H.W. Brands. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 9, 2018
Wanamaker’s Temple: The Business of Religion in an Iconic Department Store, by Nicole C. Kirk. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 4, 2018
Behold, America: The Entangled History of ‘America First’ and ‘The American Dream,’ by Sarah Churchwell. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 4, 2018
The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End, by Gary M. Pomerantz. The Florida Courier, November 2, 2018
The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy, by Greg Miller. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, October 21, 2018
Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan. The Florida Courier, October 19, 2018
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice, by Mary Fulbrook. The Jerusalem Post, October 19, 2018
Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance, by Amy Kaplan. The Jerusalem Post, October 12, 2018
Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times, by Mark Leibovich. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 12, 2018
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger, by Rebecca Traister. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 12, 2018
These Truths: A History of the United States, by Jill Lepore. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 28, 2018
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 28, 2018
Empathy: A History, by Susan Lanzoni. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 20, 2018
Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 17, 2018
Consent on Campus: A Manifesto, by Donna Freitas. Tulsa World, September 16, 2018
Leadership in Turbulent Times, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 14, 2018
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, by Eli Saslow. The Florida Courier, September 14, 2018
Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity, by Theodore M. Porter. The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 2, 2018
The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became An American Religion, by Steven R. Weisman. The Jerusalem Post, August 31, 2018
The Politics of Autism, by Bryna Siegel. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 28, 2018
The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy, by Jay Cost. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 26, 2018
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America, by Alissa Quart. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 17, 2018
Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard, by Paul Collins. The San Francisco Chronicle, August 16, 2018
The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy, by Michael G. Hanchard. The Florida Courier, August 10, 2018
The Last Utopians: Four Late 19th Century Visionaries and Their Legacy, by Michael Robertson. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 5, 2018
Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil War, by Christopher Grasso. Tulsa World, August 5, 2018
The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983, by Marc Ambinder. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 5, 2018
Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy, by Katherine BentonCohen; America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census, by Joel Perlmann. The Forward, July 15, 2018
The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics, by Dan Kaufman. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 2018
The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine & Spain 19221923, by Ze’ev Rosenkranz, Editor. The Jerusalem Post, July 13, 2018
Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything, by Randi Hutter Epstein. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 12, 2018
Energy: A Human History, by Richard Rhodes. Tulsa World, July 8, 2018
Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech, by Keith E. Whittington. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 8, 2018
Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century, by Konrad H. Jarausch. The Jerusalem Post, July 6, 2018
Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else), by Ken Auletta. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 1, 2018
Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century, by James Loeffler. The Forward, June 29, 2018
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, by Meredith Broussard. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 28, 2018
Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics, by Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen. The Florida Courier, June 22, 2018
Demographic Angst: Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s, by Alan Nadel. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 15, 2018
Our Minds, Ourselves: A Brief History of Psychology, by Keith Oatley. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 11, 2018
Idleness: A Philosophical Essay, by Brian O’Connor. Tulsa World, June 3, 2018
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America’s Schools, by Rachel Devlin. The Florida Courier, May 25, 2018
Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West, by James Pogue. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 25, 2018
Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why, by Dean Burnett. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 21, 2018
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, by Stephen Greenblatt. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 18, 2081
In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea, by Michael Brenner. The Jerusalem Post, May 11, 2018
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, by Jordan B. Peterson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 6, 2018
Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu, by Anshel Pfeffer. The Jerusalem Post, May 4, 2018
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State, by Lawrence Wright. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 26, 2018
Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America, by Cass R. Sunstein, Editor. The Florida Courier, April 20, 2018
How to Raise Kind Kids: And Get Respect, Gratitude, and a Happier Family in the Bargain. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 17, 2018 (the review was named an “Essential Topic”)
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution, by Priya Satia. The San Francisco Chronicle, April 12, 2018
On Grand Strategy, by John Lewis Gaddis. Tulsa World, April 8, 2018
The Chateau, by Paul Goldberg. The Jerusalem Post, April 6, 2018
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic, by David Frum. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 30, 2018
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, by Adam Winkler. The San Francisco Chronicle, March 28, 2018
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, by Nassim Nichola Taleb. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 26, 2018
Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968, by Ryan H. Walsh. Tulsa World, March 18, 2018
The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll, by Randall J. Stephens. The Florida Courier, March 16, 2018
Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion, by Steve Fraser. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 16, 2018
A History of Judaism, by Martin Goodman. The Jerusalem Post, March 9, 2018
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations, by Amy Chua. Psychology Today, (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 8, 2018
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 18001906, by David Cannadine. Tulsa World, February 25, 2018
The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money, by Bryan Caplan. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 20, 2018
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, by Steven Pinker. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 29, 2018
The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook, by Niall Ferguson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 11, 2018
Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, by Omer Bartov. The Jerusalem Post, February 9, 2018
Julius Rosenwald: Repairing the World, by Hasia R. Diner. The Forward, January 29, 2018
Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court, by Paul Finkelman. The Florida Courier, January 26, 2018
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon, and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD, by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 26, 2018
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, by Daniel H. Pink. The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 14, 2018
It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America, by David Cay Johnson. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 11, 2018
Great at Work: How Top Performers Work Less and Achieve More, by Morten Hansen. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 9, 2018
Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House, by Joshua Zeitz. Tulsa World, January 7, 2018
AlleyOop to Aliyah: African American Hoopsters in the Holy Land, by David A. Goldstein. The Jerusalem Post, January 5, 2018
It’s All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree, by A.J. Jacobs. The Jerusalem Post, December 22, 2017
The Gifted Generation: When Government Was Good, by David Goldfield. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 22, 2017
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, by Maya Jasanoff. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 21, 2017
The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battling Creek, by Howard Markel. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 20, 2017
Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy, by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 19, 2017
A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species, by Robert Boyd. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 14, 2017 (the review was named an “Essential Topic”)
The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of An Early American Crisis, by James E. Lewis, Jr. Tulsa World, December 10, 2017
Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby, by Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 10, 2017
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History, by Jeremy Dauber. The Jerusalem Post, December 8, 2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel, by Jesmyn Ward. The Florida Courier, December 1, 2017
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, by Daniel Ellsberg. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 1, 2017
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, by Stephen Greenblatt. The Jerusalem Post, December 1, 2017
Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Everyone), by Devorah Baum. The Jerusalem Post, November 24, 2017
Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age, by Susan Landau. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, November 22, 2017
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, by TaNehisi Coates. The Florida Courier, November 17, 2017
When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency, by Bernardo Zacka. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 15, 2017
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition, by Linda Gordon. Tulsa World, November 12, 2017
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, by Anne Applebaum. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 12, 2017
Who Will Lead Us? The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America, by Samuel C. Heilman. The Jerusalem Post, November 3, 2017
Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson. Tulsa World, October 29, 2017
Lou Reed: A Life, by Anthony DeCurtis. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 29, 2017
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, by Gordon S. Wood. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 27, 2017
The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics, by Mark Lilla. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 24, 2017
Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism, by Eric Lott. The Florida Courier, October 20, 2017
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, by Kieran Setiya. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 17, 2017
The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges, by Derek Bok. Tulsa World, October 9, 2017
Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory, by Michael Korda. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 1, 2017
What Happened, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 29, 2017
Forest Dark: A Novel, by Nicole Krauss. The Jerusalem Post, September 29, 2017
Free Speech on Campus, by Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 25, 2017
The Origin of Others, by Toni Morrison. The Florida Courier, September 22, 2017
Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence, by Rachel Sherman. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 11, 2017 (the review was named an “Essential Topic”)
At the Strangers’ Gate: Arrivals in New York, by Adam Gopnik. Tulsa World, September 10, 2017
A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr., by Alvin Felzenberg. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 27, 2017
The 7 Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice, by Chris Chambers. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 23, 2017 (the review was named an “Essential Topic” and “Essential Home”)
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, by Eddie Izzard. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 20, 2017
Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom, by Condoleezza Rice. The Florida Courier, August 18, 2017
The Federal Judiciary: Strength and Weaknesses, by Richard A. Posner. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, August 15, 2017
The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace, by Alexander Klimburg. Tulsa World, August 13, 2017
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road, by Nick Bilton. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 30, 2017
Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler, by Bruce Henderson. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 28, 2017
The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age, by Steven Weitzman. The Jerusalem Post, July 28, 2017
The Weight of Ink: A Novel, by Rachel Kadish. The Jerusalem Post, July 21, 2017
The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State, by Yascha Mounk. The Florida Courier, July 21, 2017
Popular: The Power of Likability in a StatusObsessed World, by Mitch Prinstein. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 12, 2017
Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, by David S. Brown. Tulsa World, July 2, 2017
Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn From the Humanities, by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 27, 2017
Pioneers: The First Breach, by S. Ansky. The Jerusalem Post, June 23, 2017
Raven Rock: The Story of the U. S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself – While the Rest of Us Die, by Garrett M. Graff. The Florida Courier, June 16, 2017
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, by David J. Garrow. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 11, 2017
Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam, by Mark Bowden. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 9, 2017
The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age, by David Callahan. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 4, 2017
The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine, by Nathan Thrall. The Jerusalem Post, June 2, 2017
The Corruption Cure: How Citizens & Leaders Can Combat Graft, by Robert I. Rotberg. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 30, 2017
Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom, by Thomas E. Ricks. The San Francisco Chronicle, May 25, 2017
Janesville: An American Story, by Amy Goldstein. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 21, 2017
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, by Robert M. Sapolsky. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 17, 2017 (the review was named an “Essential Topic” and “Essential Home”)
Blue on Blue: An Insider’s Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops, by Charles Campisi. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 12 2017
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters, by Tom Nichols. The Florida Courier, May 12, 2017
Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth, by Holger Hoock. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 7, 2017
Red Shoes for Rachel: Three Novellas, by Boris Sandler. The Jerusalem Post, May 5, 2017
The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power, by Joseph Turow. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 4, 2017
Richard Nixon: The Life, by John A. Farrell. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 30, 2017
Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust, by Evgeny Finkel. The Jerusalem Post, April 28, 2017
The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America’s Courtrooms, by Kevin Davis. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 26, 2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann. Tulsa World, April 23, 2017
Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman. The Jerusalem Post, April 14, 2017
One Nation Undecided: Clear Thinking about Five Hard Issues That Divide Us, by Peter H. Schuck. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 13, 2017
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple, by Jeff Guinn. The Florida Courier, April 7, 2017
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America, by Frances FitzGerald. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 2, 2017
Superfandom: How Our Obsessions are Changing What We Buy and Who We Are, by Zoe FraadeBlanar and Aaron M. Glazer. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 30, 2017
#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Ae of Social Media, by Cass R. Sunstein. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 26, 2017
On Betrayal, by Avishai Margalit. The Jerusalem Post, March 24, 2017
Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower’s Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy, by David A. Nichols. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, March 20, 2017
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, by Adam Alter. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 16, 2017
Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II, by Ray Moseley. Tulsa World, March 12, 2017
The Blood of Emmett Till, by Timothy B. Tyson. The Florida Courier, March 10, 2017
A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland, by Sydney Nathans. The Florida Courier, March 3, 2017
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the TwentyFirst Century. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, March 1, 2017
Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff, by Edward J. Balleisen. Tulsa World, February 26, 2017
The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance, by Anders Lydell. The Jerusalem Post, February 24, 2017
Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction, by Derek Thompson. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 21, 2017
Democracy: A Case Study, by David A. Moss. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 9, 2017
Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons, by Elizabeth Brown Pryor. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 3, 2017
The Original Black Elite, by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 30, 2017
True South: Henry Hampton and Eyes on the Prize, the Landmark Television Series that Reframed the Civil Rights Movement, by Jon Else. The Florida Courier, January 27, 2017
Montaigne: A Life, by Philippe Desan. Tulsa World, January 22, 2017
AntiJudaism, Antisemitism, and Delegitimizing Israel, by Robert Wistrich, Editor. The Jerusalem Post, January 20, 2017
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds, by Michael Lewis. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 15, 2017
Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable, by Erwin Chemerinsky. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 10, 2017
Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, by Jonathan Lear. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 10, 2017
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition, by Ruth von Bernuth. The Jerusalem Post, December 30, 2016
The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community, by Jeffrey Gurock. The Jerusalem Post, December 23, 2016
Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment, by Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 20, 2016
Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend, by Deirdre Bair. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 18, 2016
The War of the Roosevelts: The Ruthless Rise of America’s Greatest Political Family, by William J. Mann. Tulsa World, December 18, 2016
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West, by Peter Cozzens. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 18, 2016
City of Dreams: The 400Year history of Immigrant New York, by Tyler Anbinder. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 18, 2016
The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel, by Steven Fine. The Jerusalem Post, December 16, 2016
Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It, by Larrie D. Ferreiro. Tulsa World, December 4, 2016
Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities, by Rogers Brubaker. The Florida Courier, November 25, 2016
A Nation Without Borders: The United States and its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 18301910, by Steven Hahn. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 25, 2016
Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds, by Leo Braudy. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 22, 2016
The Tragedy of U. S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest, by Walter A. McDougall. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, November 14, 2016
The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, by David Bianculli. Tulsa World, November 13, 2016
Freud: In His Time and Ours, by Élisabeth Roudinesco. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 3, 2016
Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation, by Leigh Eric Schmidt. Tulsa World, October 30, 2016
Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran. The Jerusalem Post, October 28, 2016
Who Owns the Dead?: The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero, by Jay D. Aronson. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 21, 2016
Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism, by James T. Hamilton. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 18, 2016
A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression, by Andrew Coe and Jane Ziegelman. Tulsa World, October 16, 2016
Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel, by David Leach. The Jerusalem Post, October 14, 2016
Life & Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations Between Them, by Tim Parks. Tulsa World, October 9, 2016
Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination, by Jack Hamilton. The Florida Courier, October 7, 2016
Impact: How Law Affects Behavior, by Lawrence M. Friedman. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 6, 2016 (the review was named an “Essential Topic”)
The Winchester: The Gun That Built an American Dynasty, by Laura Trevelyan. Tulsa World, October 2, 2016
Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton, by Joe Conason. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 25, 2016
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 2: 19201928, by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson, Robert Bernard Hass, and Henry Atmore, Editors. The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 25, 2016
The Iran Wars: Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals that Reshaped the Middle East, by Jay Solomon. The Jerusalem Post, September 23, 2016
The Boys of Dunbar: A Story of Love, Hope, and Basketball, by Alejandro Danois. The Florida Courier, September 23, 2016
How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals About Male Health and Mortality, by Richard G. Bribiescas. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 20, 2016
The Market as God, by Harvey Cox. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 6, 2016
The Secret Book of Kings: A Novel, by Yochi Brandes. The Jerusalem Post, September 2, 2016
The Underground Railroad: A Novel, by Colson Whitehead. The Florida Courier, August 26, 2016
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon, by Rosa Brooks. The San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2016
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything, by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. Tulsa World, August 21, 2016
Operation Agreement: Jewish Commandos and the Raid on Tobruk, by John Sadler. The Jerusalem Post, August 19, 2016
The Consolations of Mortality: Making Sense of Death, by Andrew Stark. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 16, 2016 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, by Jesmyn Ward, Editor. The Florida Courier, August 12, 2016
How the Post Office Created America, by Winifred Gallagher. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 12, 2016
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst, by Jeffrey Toobin. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 5, 2016
The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child, by Paula S. Fass. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 5, 2016
Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America, by James E. Campbell. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, August 4, 2016
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond, by Marc Lamont Hill. The Florida Courier, July 29, 2016
After OneHundredandTwenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition, by Hillel Halkin. The Jerusalem Post, July 29, 2016
The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works, by David Crystal. Tulsa World, July 17, 2016
Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America, by Nancy Rosenblum. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 12, 2016
Battle for BedStuy: The Long War on Poverty in New York City, by Michael Woodsworth. The Florida Courier, July 8, 2016
The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right, by Michael J. Graetz and Linda Greenhouse. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 7, 2016
Bush, by Jean Edward Smith. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 7, 2016
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon, by Larry Tye. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 3, 2016
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government, by Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels. Tulsa World, June 19, 2016
What is Modern Israel?, by Yakov M. Rabkin. The Jerusalem Post, June 17, 2016
The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction, by Henry T. Greely. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 7, 2016
American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 5, 2016
Education and the Commercial Mindset, by Samuel E. Abrams. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 2, 2016
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America, by Elizabeth Hinton. The Florida Courier, May 27, 2016
The Statesman and the Storyteller, by Mark Zwonitzer. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 24, 2016
Paul McCartney: A Life, by Philip Norman. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 22, 2016
New York’s Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway, by Edna Nahshon, Editor. The Jerusalem Post, May 20, 2016
American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division, by Michael A. Cohen. Tulsa World, May 15, 2016
Lesson Plan: An Agenda for Change in American Higher Education, by William G. Bowen and Michael S. McPherson. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 12, 2016
Finding Time: The Economics of WorkLife Conflict, by Heather Boushey. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 10, 2016
The Nazi Hunters, by Andrew Nagorski. The Jerusalem Post, May 6, 2016
There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow, by Jeffrey J. Selingo. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 26, 2016
The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible, by Chanan Tigay. The Jerusalem Post, April 22, 2016
Glory Over Everything: Beyond the Kitchen House, by Kathleen Grissom. The Florida Courier, April 22, 2016
Grief Is a Journey: Finding Your Path Through Loss, by Dr. Kenneth J. Doka. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 20, 2016 (the review was published again on July 8 and featured on the homepage under the title The Journey of Grief)
Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive RoundTheWorld Comedy Tour, by Richard Zacks. The San Francisco Chronicle, April 19, 2016
KuKlux: The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction, by Elaine Frantz Parsons. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 17, 2016
Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel, by Dov Waxman. The Jerusalem Post, April 15, 2016
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, by Adam Hochschild. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 14, 2016
On Being Human: Why Mind Matters, by Jerome Kagan. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 22, 2016 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man’s Descent into Madness, by Eli Sanders. Tulsa World, March 20, 2016
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck, by Adam Cohen. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 20, 2016
I Will Find You, by Joanna Connors. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 18, 2016
The Banjo: America’s African Instrument, by Laurent Dubois. The Florida Courier, March 18, 2016
Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government, by Gary Gerstle. Tulsa World, March 13, 2016
Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice, by Nikhil Goyal. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 11, 2016
The Finest Traditions of My Calling: One Physician’s Search for the Renewal of Medicine, by Abraham M. Nussbaum, M.D. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 11, 2016
Wisdom’s Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University, by James Axtell. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, March 8, 2016
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America’s Founding Father, by George Goodwin. Tulsa World, February 28, 2016
How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network, by Shane Greenstein. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 21, 2016
The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition, by Manisha Sinha. The Florida Courier, February 12, 2016
The Yid: A Novel, by Paul Goldberg. The Jerusalem Post, February 12, 2016
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, by Jane Mayer. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 7, 2016
When Your Child Hurts: Effective Strategies to Increase Comfort, Reduce Stress, and Break the Cycle of Chronic Pain, by Rachael Coakley. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 5, 2016
The New Deal: A Global History, by Kiran Klaus Patel. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 3, 2016
Living on Paper: Letters from Irish Murdoch, 19341995, edited by Avril Horner and Anne Rowe. The San Francisco Chronicle, January 29, 2016
Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives, by David M. Levy. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 20, 2016 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
Soldiers on the Home Front: The Domestic Role of the American Military, by William C. Banks and Stephen Dycus. Tulsa World, January 17, 2016
Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond, by E. J. Dionne, Jr. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 17, 2016
The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial, by Lawrence Douglas. The Jerusalem Post, January 15, 2016
Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary, by Richard A. Posner. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 14, 2016
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America, by Wil Hayood. The Florida Courier, January 8, 2016
Return to Casablanca: Jews, Muslims, and an Israeli Anthropologist, by André Levy. The Jerusalem Post, January 8, 2016
The Confidence Game: Why We Fall For It…Every Time, by Maria Konnikova. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 5, 2016 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections, by Richard L. Hasen. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 5, 2016
Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America, by Michael A. McDonnell. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 23, 2015
Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age, by Bernard E. Harcourt. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 17, 2015
Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing, by Joe Domanick. Tulsa World, December 13, 2015
America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk, by Megan Pugh. The Florida Courier, December 11, 2015
Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, by Shane O’Mara. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 9, 2015 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
Paris at War: 19391944, by David Drake. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 22, 2015
Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation & Deception, by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller. Tulsa World, November 22, 2015
Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story, by David Maraniss. The Florida Courier, November 20, 2015
Hamburgers in Paradise: The Stories Behind the Food We Eat, by Louise O. Fresco. The Portland Oregonian, November 19, 2015
The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball, by Charles Fountain. Tulsa World, November 15, 2015
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter, by Joseph Henrich. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 12, 2015 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History, by Jay Winik. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 8, 2015
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, by Dan Ephron. The Jerusalem Post, November 6, 2015
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin, by Steven Lee Myers. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 1, 2015
Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 3, edited by Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 30, 2015
Hitler at Home, by Despina Stratigakos. The Jerusalem Post, October 30, 2015
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War, by Susan Southard. Tulsa World, October 25, 2015
Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws, and the Politics of Punishment, by Michael Javen Fortner. The Florida Courier, October 23, 2015
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains, by Thomas W. Laqueur. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 21, 2015
Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal, by Jay Parini. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 18, 2015
The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government, by David Talbot. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 16, 2015
Kissinger: The Idealist, 19231968, by Niall Ferguson. The PittsburghPost Gazette, October 11, 2015
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 6, 2015
Black Flags: The Rise of Isis, by Joby Warrick. The San Francisco Chronicle, September 24, 2015
The Making of Asian America: A History, by Erika Lee. The Portland Oregonian, September 22, 2015
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices and the Overpowering Urge to Help, by Larissa MacFarquhar. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 16, 2015 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times, by Anne C. Heller. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 13, 2015
Between the World and Me, by TaNehisi Coates. The Florida Courier, September 11, 2015
The Israeli Mind: How the Israeli National Character Shapes Our World, by Alon Gratch. The Jerusalem Post, September 11, 2015
The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 19451975, by Michael Schudson. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 9, 2015
The Debate Over Jewish Achievement: Exploring the Nature and Nurture of Human Accomplishment, by Steven L. Pease. The Jerusalem Post, August 21, 2015
Upside: The New Science of PostTraumatic Growth, by Jim Rendon. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 14, 2015
Just Married: SameSex Couples, Monogamy & the Future of Marriage, by Stephen Macedo. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, August 13, 2015
Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century, by Andrew Wender Cohen. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 11, 2015
American Railroads: Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century, by Robert E. Gallamore and John R. Meyer. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 9, 2015
Touché: The Duel in Literature, by John Leigh. Tulsa World, August 9, 2015
Katrina: After the Flood, by Gary Rivlin. The Florida Courier, August 7, 2015
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety, by Jimmy Carter. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 26, 2015
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab, by Steve Inskeep. Tulsa World, July 26, 2015
The Heart of the Order: A Novel, by Theo SchellLambert. Tulsa World, July 19, 2015
Hotel Moscow: A Novel, by Talia Carner. The Jerusalem Post, July 17, 2015
The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics, by Barton Swaim. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 15, 2015
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey, by Rinker Buck. The Portland Oregonian, July 12, 2015
Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita, by Robert Roper. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 12, 2015
Citizen Swain: Tales from a Minnesota Life, by Tom H. Swain. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 8, 2015
Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety, by Joseph LeDoux. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 7, 2015
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the MilitaryIndustrial Complex, by Michael Hiltzik. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 4, 2015
Mislaid, by Nell Zink. The Florida Courier, July 3, 2015
Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva, by Rosemary Sullivan. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 2, 2015
Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword, by David K. Shipler. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 28, 2015
The ArabIsraeli Conflict in American Political Culture, by Jonathan Rynhold. The Jerusalem Post, June 26, 2015
The Meursault Investigation: A Novel, by Kamel Daoud. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 21, 2015
The Book of Aron: A Novel, by Jim Shepard. The Jerusalem Post, June 19, 2015
The Little Big Number: How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do About It, by Dirk Philipsen. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 16, 2015
The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough. The Portland Oregonian, June 10, 2015
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 17831789, by Joseph J. Ellis. Tulsa World, June 7, 2015
Madness in Civilization: From the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine, by Andrew Scull. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 2, 2015
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony, by Nelson Denis. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 1, 2015
Ordinary Light: A Memoir, by Tracy K. Smith. The Florida Courier, May 29, 2015
Reagan: The Life, by H. W. Brands. The San Francisco Chronicle, May 20, 2015
Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington 18481868, by Cokie Roberts. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 24, 2015
Inequality: What Can Be Done?, by Anthony B. Atkinson. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 7, 2015
When Parents Part: How Mothers and Fathers Can Help Their Children Deal with Separation and Divorce, by Penelope Leach. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 7, 2015 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
The Spy’s Son: The True Story of the HighestRanking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained to Spy for Russia,” by Bryan Denson. The Portland Oregonian, May 6, 2015
The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath, by Dan Stone. The Jerusalem Post, May 1, 2015
The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams, by Phyllis Lee Levin. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 27, 2015
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, by Robert D. Putnam. Tulsa World, April 26, 2015
Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II, by Richard Reeves. The San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 2015
God Help the Child: A Novel, by Toni Morrison. The Florida Courier, April 24, 2015
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry, by Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 21, 2015 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically, by Peter Singer. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 29, 2015
InYourFace Politics: The Consequences of Uncivil Media, by Diana C. Mutz. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 8, 2015
Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership, by Susan Butler. The Portland Oregonian, April 8, 2015
Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made, by Richard Rhodes. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 29, 2015
Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, & American Cultural Diplomacy, by Gren Barnhisel. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 29, 2015
Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women, by Sarah Helm. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 29, 2015
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson. Tulsa World, March 22, 2015
Too Hot To Handle: A Global History of Sex Education, by Jonathan Zimmerman. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, March 18, 2015
Curiosity, by Alberto Manguel. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 17, 2015
The Sacrifice: A Novel, by Joyce Carol Oates. The Florida Courier, March 13, 2015
Russian Tattoo: A Memoir, by Elena Gorokhova. The Jerusalem Post, March 13, 2015
Sometimes an Art: Nine Essays on History, by Bernard Bailyn. Tulsa World, March 1, 2015
Jewish Mad Men: Advertising and the Design of the American Jewish Experience, by Kerri P. Steinberg. The Jerusalem Post, February 27, 2015
The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood, by Susan Engel. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 26, 2015
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, by Eric Foner. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 22, 2015
One Nation, Under Gods: A New American History, by Peter Manseau. The San Francisco Chronicle, February 19, 2015
Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education, by William G. Bowen and Eugene M. Tobin. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 19, 2015
In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China, by Michael Meyer. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 15, 2015
A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 15, 2015
Mourning Lincoln, by Martha Hodes. The Florida Courier, February 13, 2015
The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire, by Adam D. Mendelsohn. The Jerusalem Post, February 13, 2015
F. B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature, by William J. Maxwell. The San Francisco Chronicle, February 5, 2015
Empire of Cotton: A Global History, by Sven Beckert. Tulsa World, January 25, 2015
The Killing Compartments: The Mentality of Mass Murder, by Abram De Swaan. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 21, 2015
The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society, by Julian E. Zelizer. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 18, 2015
The Devil Wins: A History of Lying From the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment, by Dallas G. Denery II. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 14, 2015 (the review was named an “Essential Read in Ethics and Morality”)
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief, by James M. McPherson. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 6, 2015
Christendom Destroyed: Europe 15171648, by Mark Greengrass. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 28, 2014
The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth, edited by Orlando Patterson with Ethan Fosse. The Florida Courier, December 26, 2014
Walter Lippmann: Public Economist, by Craufurd D. Goodwin. The Portland Oregonian, December 23, 2014
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, by Kai Bird. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 23, 2014
Jealousy, by Peter Toohey. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 23, 2014 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street, by Paula Rabinowitz. Tulsa World, December 14, 2014
Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way, by Hasia R. Diner. The Jerusalem Post, December 12, 2014
William Wells Brown: An African American Life, by Ezra Greenspan. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 10, 2014
Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics, by Marie Gottschalk. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 9, 2014
The Secret History of Wonder Woman, by Jill Lepore. The Portland Oregonian, December 9, 2014
Fire Shut Up In My Bones: A Memoir, by Charles M. Blow. The Florida Courier, December 5, 2014
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson, by S. C. Gwynne. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 2, 2014
Divine Fury: A History of Genius, by Darrin McMahon. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 23, 2014
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 19161931, by Adam Tooze. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 22, 2014
Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America’s Civil Rights Murders, by Renee Romano. The Florida Courier, November 21, 2014
The Rainborowes: One Family’s Quest to Build a New England,” by Adrian Tinniswood. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 16, 2014
The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How SelfInterest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won’t Admit It, by Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, November 12, 2014
The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington, by Gregg Herken. The Portland Oregonian, November 10, 2014
Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left, by Mark C. Taylor. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 10, 2014 (the review was named an “Essential Read in Behavioral Economics”)
When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys, by Thomas Maier. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 9, 2014
America’s Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation, by Grant Wacker. The Portland Oregonian, November 4, 2014
More Awesome Than Money: Four Boys and Their Heroic Quest to Save Your Privacy from Facebook, by Jim Dwyer. Tulsa World, November 2, 2014
The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea, by Robert Wald Sussman. The Florida Courier, October 31, 2014
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy, by Francis Fukuyama. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 29, 2014
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name – One White, One Black, by Chris Tomlinson. Tulsa World, October 26, 2014
Hard Choices, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, October 26, 2014
Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician, by Allen Shawn. The Jerusalem Post, October 24, 2014
The Return of George Washington: 17831789, by Edward J. Larson. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 19, 2014
Cowardice: A Brief History, by Chris Walsh. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 14, 2014
Leningrad: Siege and Symphony, by Brian Moynahan. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 12, 2014
The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of TransAtlantic Battle, by Peter Baldwin. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 8, 2014
The Innovators: How A Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created The Digital Revolution, by Walter Isaacson. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 1, 2014
All the Truth Is Out: The Fall of Gary Hart and the Rise of Tabloid Politics, by Matt Bai. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 28, 2014
Cosby: His Life and Times, by Mark Whitaker. The Florida Courier, September 26, 2014
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi, by Mitchell Zuckoff with the Annex Security Team. The Boston Globe, September 25, 2014
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David, by Lawrence Wright. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 14, 2014
Israel: Is It Good For The Jews?, by Richard Cohen. The Jerusalem Post, September 12, 2014
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran, by Ramita Navai. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 7, 2014
The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs, by Greil Marcus. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 2, 2014
Alien Landscapes? Interpreting Disordered Minds, by Jonathan Glover. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 2, 2014
Debbie Doesn’t Do It Anymore: A Novel, by Walter Mosley. The Florida Courier, August 29, 2014
Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom, by Lewis Buzbee. The San Francisco Chronicle, August 20, 2014
We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel, by Matthew Thomas. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 12, 2014
The Second Amendment: A Biography, by Michael Waldman. Tulsa World, August 10, 2014
Rough Country: How Texas Became America’s Most Powerful BibleBelt State, by Robert Wuthnow. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, August 4, 2014
Back Channel: A Novel, by Stephen L. Carter. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 3, 2014
The Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia 18802012, by Martin Kilson. The Florida Courier, August 1, 2014
Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes, by John Rosengren. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 27, 2014
American Innovations: Stories, by Rivka Galchen. The Jerusalem Post, July 25, 2014
The Second Arab Awakening and the Battle for Pluralism, by Marwan Muasher. The Jerusalem Post, July 18, 2014
The Yankee Way: Playing, Coaching, and My Life in Baseball, by Willie Randolph. The Florida Courier, July 18, 2014
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book, by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 7, 2014
The Life of the Automobile: The Complete History of the Motor Car, by Steven Parissien. Tulsa World, July 6, 2014
A Social Strategy: How We Profit From Social Media, by Mikolaj Jan Piskorski. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 3, 2014 (the review was named “An Essential Read in Behavioral Economics”)
Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty, by Elizabeth Mitchell. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 2, 2014
But Enough About You, by Christopher Buckley. The Portland Oregonian, June 29, 2014
Mannequin Girl: A Novel, by Ellen Litman. The Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2014
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death, by Colson Whitehead. The Portland Oregonian, June 17, 2014
Liberalism: The Life of an Idea, by Edmund Fawcett. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 11, 2014
Scalia: A Court of One, by Bruce Allen Murphy. The Boston Globe, June 10, 2014
Childhood Obesity in America: Biography of an Epidemic, by Laura Dawes. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 10, 2014 (the review was named “An Essential Read in Addiction”)
Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack, by Katherine C. Mooney. The Florida Courier, June 6, 2014
A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide, by Alon Confino. The Jerusalem Post, June 6, 2014
Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America, by Donald L. Miller. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 1, 2014
James Madison: A Life Reconsidered, by Lynne Cheney. Tulsa World, May 25, 2014
Other People's Houses: How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business, by Jennifer Taub. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 20, 2014
Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters, by Michael S. Roth. Inside Higher Ed (online) www.insidehighered.com, May 15, 2014
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst, by Adam Phillips. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 12, 2014
Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of ’76, by Dan Epstein. Tulsa World, May 11, 2014
The Double Life of Paul de Man, by Evelyn Barish. The San Francisco Chronicle, May 9, 2014
The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude Van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews, by Bernard Wassersein. The Jerusalem Post, May 9, 2014
The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic, by John Demos. Tulsa World, May 4, 2014
The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe, by Yohanan PetrovskyShtern. The Jerusalem Post, May 2, 2014
The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture and Style, by Nelson George. The Florida Courier, April 25, 2014
A Fighting Chance, by Elizabeth Warren. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 22, 2014
Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change, by Jeffrey Foote, Carrie Wilkens, and Nicole Kosanke, with Stephanie Higgs. Tulsa World, April 20, 2014
American Tax Resisters, by Romain D. Huret. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 14, 2014
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 10, 2014
Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better, by Peter H. Schuck. The Boston Globe, April 9, 2014
Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s PostCrash Recruits, by Kevin Roose. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 9, 2014
We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution, by Bruce Ackerman. The Florida Courier, March 28, 2014
The Struggle for Iraq’s Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy, by Zaid AlAli. The Portland Oregonian, March 24, 2014
Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters, by Diane Jacobs. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 23, 2014
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself, by Andrew Pettegree. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, March 20, 2014
Her Honor: Rosalie Wahl and the Minnesota Women’s Movement, by Lori Sturdevant. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 16, 2014
Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of SelfLove, by Simon Blackburn. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 12, 2014
The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God, by Peter Watson. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2, 2014
The Americanization of Narcissism, by Elizabeth Lunbeck. Tulsa World, March 2, 2014
HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton, by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 2, 2014
Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity, by Kwame Anthony Appiah. The Florida Courier, February 21, 2014
It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, by Danah Boyd. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 18, 2014
The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI, by Betty Medsger. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 16, 2014
The Limits of Partnership: U.S.Russian Relations in the TwentyFirst Century, by Angela E. Stent. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 22, 2014
On Paper: The Everything of Its TwoThousandYear History, by Nicholas A. Basbanes. Tulsa World, February 9, 2014
Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy, by Kenneth M. Pollack. The Jerusalem Post, February 7, 2014
The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools, by Christopher A. Lubienski and Sarah Theule Lubienski. The Portland Oregonian, February 4, 2014
The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son, by Pat Conroy. The Portland Oregonian, January 27, 2014
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, by Robert M. Gates. The San Francisco Chronicle, January 26, 2014
After Civil Rights: Racial Realism in the New American Workplace, by John D. Skrentny. The Florida Courier, January 24, 2014
Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us About Right and Wrong, by George Edmonds. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 23, 2014
Unbalanced: The CoDependency of America and China, by Stephen Roach. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 21, 2014
Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA, by John Rizzo. The Boston Globe, January 15, 2014
A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: SteelTrue 19071940, by Victoria Wilson. Tulsa World, January 5, 2014
Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life, by Berel Lang. The Jerusalem Post, January 3, 2014
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools, by Diane Ravitch. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 29, 2013
Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs From Voices Around the World, by Retha Powers, Editor. The Florida Courier, December 27, 2013
Jesus: The Human Face of God, by Jay Parini. The Boston Globe, December 25, 2013
The Smithsonian’s History of America in 101 Objects, by Richard Kurin. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 22, 2013
The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City, by William B. Helmreich. The Portland Oregonian, December 22, 2013
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, by Jennifer Michael Hecht. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 16, 2013
The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams, by Ben Bradlee, Jr. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 15, 2013
Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London, and the Birth of the Modern City, by Jonathan Conlin. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 14, 2013
Report from the Interior, by Paul Auster. The Jerusalem Post, December 6, 2013
WhiteCollar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making, by Nicholas Carnes. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 4, 2013
The Explorer Gene: How Three Generations of One Family Went Higher, Deeper and Further Than Any Before, by Tom Cheshire. The Boston Globe, December 3, 2013
Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, & Branding in the Social Media Age, by Alice E. Marwick. Tulsa World, December 1, 2013
The Rejected Stone: Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership, by Al Sharpton. The Florida Courier, November 22, 2013
The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging, by Margaret Lock. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 19, 2013 (the review was named “An Essential Read in Aging”)
Dallas 1963, by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis. The San Francisco Chronicle, November 17, 2013
Looking for Strangers: The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood, by Dori Katz. The Jerusalem Post, November 15, 2013
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 10, 2013
Man in the Dark: A Novel, by Paul Auster. The Jerusalem Post, November 8, 2013
If Mayors Ruled The World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities, by Benjamin R. Barber. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, November 5, 2013
The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible, by Simon Winchester. The Boston Globe, November 4, 2013
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 29, 2013
The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. The Portland Oregonian, October 28, 2013
Johnny Cash: The Life, by Robert Hilburn. Tulsa World, October 27, 2013
One Summer: America, 1927, by Bill Bryson. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 27, 2013
Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, by Wendy Lower. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 22, 2013
With Charity For All: Why Charities Are Failing and A Better Way To Give, by Ken Stern. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 20, 2013
Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law, by Alan Dershowitz. The Boston Globe, October 18, 2013
The Rise of Abraham Cahan, by Seth Lipsky. The Jerusalem Post, October 18, 2013
Friendship, by A. C. Grayling. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 15, 2013
Wordbirds: An Irreverent Lexicon for the 21st Century, by Liesl Schillinger. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 14, 2013
The Good Lord Bird: A Novel, by James McBride. The Florida Courier, October 11, 2013
Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities, by Craig Steven Wilder. The Boston Globe, October 2, 2013
The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future, by Paul Sabin. Tulsa World, September 29, 2013
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays, by Kiese Laymon; Long Division: A Novel, by Kiese Laymon. The Florida Courier, September 20, 2013
Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, & Discovery, by Rachel Adams. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 17, 2013 (marquee quotation)
Higher Education in America, by Derek Bok. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 3, 2013
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson, by Jeff Guinn. Tulsa World, September 1, 2013
The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power, by Victor S. Navasky. The San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2013
The Joker: A Memoir, by Andrew Hudgins. The Portland Oregonian, August 25, 2013
For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law, by Randall Kennedy. The Florida Courier, August 16, 2013
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care, by Cris Beam. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, August 12, 2013 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns). Reprinted in Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 15, 2013
Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation, by Robert Wilson. The Boston Globe, August 9, 2013
Roof Life, by Svetlana Alpers. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 5, 2013
The Truth in Small Doses: Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer – and How to Win It, by Clifton Leaf. The Jerusalem Post, July 26, 2013
Ready For a Brand New Beat: How “Dancing in the Street” Became the Anthem for a Changing America, by Mark Kurlansky. The Boston Globe, July 26, 2013
America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal, by Michael Golay. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 23, 2013
America’s Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation, by Joshua Kendall. The Boston Globe, July 20, 2013. Reprinted in Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 20, 2013
SmallTown America: Finding Community, Shaping the Future, by Robert Wuthnow. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 14, 2013
To America with Love, by A. A. Gill. The Portland Oregonian, July 14, 2013
To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville, by Robert Cassanello. The Florida Courier, July 12, 2013
The Working Memory Advantage: Train Your Brain To Function Stronger, Smarter, Faster, by Tracy and Ross Alloway. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 8, 2013 (the review was named “An Essential Read in Cognition”)
Christian Nation: A Novel, by Frederic C. Rich. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 7, 2013
Sleepless in Holywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business, by Lynda Obst. Tulsa World, July 7, 2013
The Humans: A Novel, by Matt Haig. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 7, 2013
The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World Together in Commerce, by Anupam Chander. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 1, 2013
Friend of the Court: On the Front Lines with the First Amendment, by Floyd Abrams. Cornell Alumni Magazine, July/August, 2013
City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York, by Mason B. Williams; The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream, by Thomas Dyja. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 30, 2013
The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies,” by Jonathan Alter. The Florida Courier, June 28, 2013
The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences, by David Cannadine. The Portland Oregonian, June 23, 2013
All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt, by John Taliaferro. Tulsa World, June 23, 2013
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Highjacking, by Brendan I. Koerner. The San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 2013
What Changed When Everything Changed: 9/11 and the Making of National Identity, by Joseph Margulies. The Florida Courier, June 21, 2013
One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, by Lauren Sandler. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 12, 2013
A Change They Can’t Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America, by Christopher S. Parker and Matt A. Barreto. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 3, 2013
The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War, by Richard Rubin. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 26, 2013
Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort, by Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer. Edited by Raffaele Laudani. The Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2013
Acts of Congress: How America’s Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn’t, by Robert G. Kaiser. The Boston Globe, May 23, 2013
College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means For Students, by Jeffrey J. Selingo. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 7, 2013
Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin To Einstein: Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe, by Mario Livio. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 6, 2013
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made the Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic, by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. Tulsa World, May 5, 2013
Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic, by David Caute. The Jerusalem Post, May 3, 2013
Letters to a Young Scientist, by Edward O. Wilson. The Boston Globe, April 29, 2013
The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, and A Movement, by David Graeber. The San Francisco Chronicle, April 28, 2013
The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution, by Marcia Coyle. The Portland Oregonian, April 28, 2013
Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight Against Zionism as Racism, by Gil Troy. The Jerusalem Post, April 26, 2013
The Wrath of Cochise: The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars, by Terry Mort. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 23, 2013
Who Owns the Future?, by Jaron Lanier. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 22, 2013
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order, by Benn Steil. Tulsa World, April 21, 2013
Hitler’s Philosophers, by Yvonne Sherratt. The Jerusalem Post, April 19, 2013
Born on a Mountaintop: On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier, by Bob Thompson. The Minneapolis StarTribune, April 17, 2013
Equilateral: A Novel, by Ken Kalfus. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 14, 2013
The New Mind of the South, by Tracy Thompson. The Florida Courier, April 12, 2013
AntiJudaism: The Western Tradition, by David Nirenberg. The Jerusalem Post, April 5, 2013
Middle C: A Novel, by William H. Gass. The Jerusalem Post, March 29, 2013
Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community, by Kenneth T. MacLeish. The Florida Courier, March 29, 2013
Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy, by David Sheff. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, March 28, 2013 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns) Reprinted in Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 2, 2013
The Art of Freedom: Teaching the Humanities to the Poor, by Earl Shorris. The San Francisco Chronicle, March 24, 2013
Why Philanthropy Matters: How the Wealthy Give, and What it Means For Our Economic WellBeing, by Zoltan J. Acs. Tulsa World, March 24, 2013
The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy, by Michael Pettis. Tulsa World, March 17, 2013
Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State, by T. D. Allman. The Portland Oregonian, March 10, 2013
Contagious: Why Things Catch On, by Jonah Berger. The Boston Globe, March 3, 2013
The Leaderless Economy: Why The World Economic System Fell Apart And How To Fix It, by Peter Temin and David Vines. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 20, 2013
The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future, by W. Patrick McCray. Tulsa World, February 3, 2013
Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson, by Barbara Ransby. The Florida Courier, February 2, 2013
I Do and I Don’t: A History of Marriage in the Movies, by Jeanine Basinger. The Boston Globe, January 30, 2013
Friendfluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are, by Carlin Flora. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 27, 2013
The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures, by Edward Ball. The San Francisco Chronicle, January 27, 2013
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expect Eyes, by Alexandra Horowitz. The Portland Oregonian, January 13, 2013
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 18611863, by James Oakes. The Florida Courier, January 11, 2013
The Story of America: Essays on Origins, by Jill Lepore. Tulsa World, December 30, 2012
Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds, by Jim Sterba. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 30, 2012
The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father’s Twentieth Century, by Margaret Talbot. The Portland Oregonian, December 23, 2012
Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives, by Amy J. Binder and Kate Wood. The Boston Globe, December 18, 2012
The Noir Forties: The American People from Victory to Cold War, by Richard Lingeman. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 16, 2012
Geronimo, by Robert M. Utley. Tulsa World, December 16, 2012
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, by David Nasaw. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 9, 2012
Back to Blood: A Novel, by Tom Wolfe. The Florida Courier, December 7, 2012
Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, and the Rule of Law, by Margaret Jane Radin. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 5, 2012
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 19451956, by Anne Applebaum. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 2, 2012
38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier’s End, by Scott W. Berg. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 2, 2012
Dear Life: Stories, by Alice Munro. The Portland Oregonian, November 25, 2012
Why Tolerate Religion?, by Brian Leiter. The Jerusalem Post, November 23, 2012
Elsewhere: A Memoir, by Richard Russo. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 18, 2012
The Great Charles Dickens Scandal, by Michael Slater. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 18, 2012
Telegraph Avenue: A Novel, by Michael Chabon. The Florida Courier, November 16, 2012
Jews and Words, by Amos Oz and Fania OzSalzberger. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, November 14, 2012
The American Circus, edited by Susan Weber, Kenneth Ames, and Matthew Wittmann. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 13, 2012
Hallucinations, by Oliver Sacks. The Portland Oregonian, November 4, 2012
The Richard Burton Diaries, edited by Chris Williams. The Boston Globe, October 30, 2012
Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics, by Daniel Stedman Jones. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, October 28, 2012
The Parties Versus The People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans, by Mickey Edwards. Tulsa World, October 28, 2012
Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, by Jon D. Levenson. The Jerusalem Post, October 26, 2012
Exam Schools: Inside America’s Most Selective Public High Schools, by Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Jessica A. Hockett. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 17, 2012
The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden, by Mark Bowden. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 16, 2012
Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad, by David Lesch. The Jerusalem Post, October 12, 2012
NW: A Novel, by Zadie Smith. The Florida Courier, October 5, 2012
Against Security: How We Can Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger, by Harvey Molotch. Barron’s Financial Weekly, October 1, 2012
The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown, by Richard L. Hasen. The Portland Oregonian, September 30, 2012
The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Healthcare Doesn’t, by William J. Baumol. The Boston Globe, September 24, 2012
Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age, by Steven Johnson. The San Francisco Chronicle, September 23, 2012
The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 23, 2012
We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860April 1861, by William J. Cooper. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 23, 2012
The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln: A Novel, by Stephen L. Carter. The Florida Courier, September 21, 2012
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, by Paul Tough. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 19, 2012 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West, by Rubén Martínez. Tulsa World, September 16, 2012
Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work, by Jeanne Marie Laskas. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 16, 2012
Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to HipHop, by Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen. The Florida Courier, September 7, 2012
On the Origins of Jewish SelfHatred, by Paul Reitter. The Jerusalem Post, August 31, 2012
Affluence & Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America, by Martin Gilens. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, August 28, 2012
Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep, by David K. Randall. The Portland Oregonian, August 19, 2012
Ascent of the AWord: Assholism, the First Sixty Years, by Geoffrey Nunberg. The San Francisco Chronicle, August 12, 2012
True Believers: A Novel, by Kurt Andersen. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 12, 2012
Some of My Best Friends Are Black, by Tanner Colby. The Florida Courier, August 10, 2012
American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 19452000, by Joshua B. Freeman. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 5, 2012
Cronkite, by Douglas Brinkley. Tulsa World, August 5, 2012
Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy, by Paul Thomas Murphy. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 5, 2012
Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street, by Neil Barofsky. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 31, 2012
The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution, by Richard Slotkin. The Boston Globe, July 27, 2012
Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II, by Arthur Herman. Tulsa World, July 22, 2012
Sincerity: How a Moral Ideal Born Five Hundred Years Ago Inspired Religious Wars, Modern Art, Hipster Chic, and the Curious Notion That We All Have Something to Say (No Matter How Dull), by R. Jay Magill, Jr. The Portland Oregonian, July 15, 2012
Superman: The HighFlying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero, by Larry Tye. Tulsa World, July 8, 2012
Wait: The Art and Science of Delay, by Frank Partnoy. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 8, 2012
The World Without You: A Novel, by Joshua Henkin. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 8, 2012
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City, by Alan Ehrenhalt. Barron’s Financial Weekly, July 2, 2012
Barack Obama: The Story, by David Maraniss. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 1, 2012
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power, by Robert A. Caro. The Florida Courier, June 22, 2012
In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible, by Michael Walzer. The Jerusalem Post, June 22, 2012
Maximum Brainpower: Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom, by Shlomo Breznitz and Collins Hemingway. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 18, 2012
Mr. President: How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive, by Ray Raphael. Tulsa World, June 17, 2012
Mudwoman: A Novel, by Joyce Carol Oates. The Florida Courier, June 8, 2012
America the Philosophical, by Carlin Romano. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 3, 2012
A Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character, by Jack Hill. The San Francisco Chronicle, May 27, 2012
The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It, by Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 21, 2012
A Disposition to Be Rich: How a SmallTown Pastor’s Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the BestHated Man in the United States, by Geoffrey C. Ward. The San Francisco Chronicle, May 20, 2012
Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States, by Michael Lind. Tulsa World, May 20, 2012
10 ½ Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said, by Charles Wheelan. The Boston Globe, May 17, 2012
Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, by George Dyson. Tulsa World, May 13, 2012
In One Person: A Novel, by John Irving. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 6, 2012
Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power, by Terri Apter. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 30, 2012 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
The Abolitionist Imagination, by Andrew Delbanco. The Florida Courier, April 27, 2012
Paper Promises: Debt, Money and the New World Order, by Philip Coggan. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 22, 2012
Calico Joe: A Novel, by John Grisham. The Portland Oregonian, April 22, 2012
When General Grant Expelled the Jews, by Jonathan D. Sarna. The San Francisco Chronicle, April 22, 2012
Promiscuous: Portnoy’s Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness, by Bernard Avishai. The Jerusalem Post, April 20, 2012
Finance and the Good Society, by Robert J. Shiller. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 10, 2012
Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship, by Richard Aldous. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 8, 2012
The Beginner’s Goodbye: A Novel, by Anne Tyler. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 8, 2012
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed Quest to Clean Up SinLoving New York, by Richard Zacks. The San Francisco Chronicle, April 8, 2012
Schmidt Steps Back: A Novel, by Louis Begley. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 25, 2012
In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age, by Patricia Cohen. The Portland Oregonian, March 18, 2012
Watergate: A Novel, by Thomas Mallon. Tulsa World, March 18, 2012
Psychology’s Ghosts: The Crisis in the Profession and the Way Back, by Jerome Kagan. The Jerusalem Post, March 16, 2012
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg. The Portland Oregonian, March 11, 2012
Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power, by Andrew Nagorski. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 11, 2012
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Haidt. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, March 1, 2012
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy, by Andrew Preston. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, March 1, 2012
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now – As Told By Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long For It, by Craig Taylor. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 26, 2012
Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, An American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing, by Jim Yardley. Tulsa World, February 26, 2012
Thinking the Twentieth Century, by Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder. The San Francisco Chronicle, February 19, 2012
Memory: Fragments of a Modern History, by Alison Winter. The Boston Globe, February 19, 2012
A Line in the Sand: The AngloFrench Struggle for the Middle East, 19141948, by James Barr. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 12, 2012
The Street Sweeper: A Novel, by Elliot Perlman. The Jerusalem Post, February 10, 2012
Money Well Spent?: The Truth Behind the Trillion Dollar Stimulus, The Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History, by Michael Grabell. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 9, 2012
Kearny’s March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 18461847, by Winston Groom. Tulsa World, February 5, 2012
Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition, by Marni Davis. The San Francisco Chronicle, February 5, 2012
Hope: A Tragedy, by Shalom Auslander. The Jerusalem Post, February 3, 2012
The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb, by Philip Taubman. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 22, 2012
The Night Swimmer: A Novel, by Matt Bondurant. The San Francisco Chronicle, January 22, 2012
The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the ‘50s, New York in the ‘60s: A Memoir of Publishing’s Golden Age, by Richard Seaver. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 22, 2012
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 8, 2012
Fraternity, by Diane Brady. The Florida Courier, January 6, 2012
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, by Charles J. Shields. Cornell Alumni Magazine, January/February, 2012
Invisible Men: Men’s Inner Lives and the Consequences of Silence, by Michael Addis. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 4, 2012 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
Room for Improvement: Notes on a Dozen Lifelong Sports, by John Casey. Tulsa World, January 1, 2012
The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry is Defining Your Identity and Your World, by Joseph Turow. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 27, 2011
The Dovekeepers: A Novel, by Alice Hoffman. The Jerusalem Post, December 23, 2011
Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero, by Chris Matthews. Tulsa World, December 18, 2011
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 18, 2011
Hitler’s Hangman: The Life of Heydrich, by Robert Gewarth. The Jerusalem Post, December 16, 2011
The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend, by Thomas Malory, a Retelling by Peter Ackroyd. The Boston Globe, December 14, 2011
This is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House, by Herman Cain. The Florida Courier, December 9, 2011
Lawtalk: The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions, by James E. Clapp, Elizabeth G. Thornburg, Marc Galanter, and Fred R. Shapiro. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 7, 2011
Civilization: The West and the Rest, by Niall Ferguson. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 4, 2011
Losing It: In Which An Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain, by William Ian Miller. Tulsa World, December 4, 2011
Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation Into War, by Steven M. Gillon. The Portland Oregonian, November 26, 2011
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War, by Tony Horwitz. The Florida Courier, November 24, 2011
Hi, My Name is Jack: One Man’s Story of the Tumultuous Road to Sobriety and a Changed Life, by Jack Watts. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, November 21, 2011 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
The Prague Cemetery: A Novel, by Umberto Eco. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 20, 2011
The Sense of An Ending: A Novel, by Julian Barnes. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 20, 2011.
Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President, by Ron Suskind. The San Francisco Chronicle, November 13, 2011
On Conan Doyle or, The Whole Art of Storytelling, by Michael Dirda. The Portland Oregonian, November 12, 2011
The Art of Fielding: A Novel, by Chad Harbach. Tulsa World, November 13, 2011
Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful, by Daniel S. Hamermesh. Barron’s Financial Weekly, November 7, 2011
Political Evil: What It Is and How to Combat It, by Alan Wolfe. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 31, 2011
Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, by Justin A. Frank, MD. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 23, 2011
The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits, by Kent Greenfield. The Portland Oregonian, October 22, 2011
The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn, by Lucette Lagnado. The Jerusalem Post, October 21, 2011
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard. The Portland Oregonian, October 15, 2011
The Virtues of Our Vices: A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness and Other Bad Habits, by Emrys Westacott. The Boston Globe, October 14, 2011
The Marriage Plot: A Novel, by Jeffrey Eugenides. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 9, 2011
How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought, by Leora Batnitzky. The Jerusalem Post, October 7, 2011
Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock, by David Margolick. The Florida Courier, October 7, 2011
Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care Reform, by Paul Starr. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 4, 2011
The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times, by Mohamed ElBaradei. Barron’s Financial Weekly, October 3, 2011
Driving Home: An American Journey, by Jonathan Raban. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 1, 2011
Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies, by Howard Wainer. Tulsa World, September 25, 2011
Virginia Woolf, by Alexandra Harris. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 24, 2011
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life, by Vivian Gornick. The Jerusalem Post, September 23, 2011
Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson, by Amanda Smith. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 20, 2011
Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy, by John Julius Norwich. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 17, 2011
American Anthrax: Fear, Crime, and the Investigation of the Nation’s Deadliest Bioterror Attack, by Jeanne Guillemin. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, September 14, 2011
The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘N’ Roll, by Preston Lauterbach. The Florida Courier, September 9, 2011
In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, by Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 6, 2011
Tough Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart, by Stefan Kanfer. Tulsa World, September 4, 2011
The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion, by Hugh B. Urban. The Boston Globe, August 31, 2011
American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation, by Michael Kazin. The San Francisco Chronicle, August 28, 2011
The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture, by David Mamet. The Jerusalem Post, August 19, 2011
The Good School: How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the Education They Deserve, by Peg Tyre. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, August 9, 2011 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, by David Brooks. Tulsa World, August 7, 2011
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and Making of Modern America, by Richard White. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 7, 2011
The TalkFunny Girl: A Novel, by Roland Merullo. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 31, 2011
Pacific Heights: A Novel, by Paul Harper. The Portland Oregonian, July 30, 2011
The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, The Anthrax Attacks and America’s Rush to War, by David Willman. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 24, 2011
Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America, by Cameron McWhirter. The Florida Courier, July 22, 2011
Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion, by Michael Levy. The Jerusalem Post, July 22, 2011
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon, by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner. The Australian, July 16, 2011
American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America, by David O. Stewart. The Kansas City Star, July 16, 2011
The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World, by Michael Spence. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 12, 2011
David Crockett: The Lion of the West, by Michael Wallis. Tulsa World, July 10, 2011
The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers, by James O’Shea. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 10, 2011
Turn of Mind, by Alice LaPlante. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 3, 2011
Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir, by Robert Jay Lifton. The Boston Globe, June 24, 2011
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, by David McCullough. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 19, 2011
La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life, by Elaine Sciolino. The Boston Globe, June 15, 2011
A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion: A Novel, by Ron Hansen. The San Francisco Chronicle, June 12, 2011
What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years, by Ricky Riccardi. The Florida Courier, June 9, 2011
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies – How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths, by Michael Shermer. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 7, 2011
Will Rogers: A Political Life, by Richard White, Jr. Tulsa World, June 5, 2011
The Road to Fatima Gate: The Beirut Spring, The Rise of Hezbollah, and the Iranian War Against Israel, by Michael J. Totten. The Portland Oregonian, June 4, 2011
Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole. The San Francisco Chronicle, May 29, 2011
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 19141918, by Adam Hochschild. The Portland Oregonian, May 27, 2011
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present, by Jeff Madrick. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 23, 2011
Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff, by James B. Stewart. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 22, 2011
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, by Erik Larson. The San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 2011
Voices from Iraq: A People’s History, 20032009, by Mark Kukis. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 15, 2011
The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel, by David Foster Wallace. The Jerusalem Post, May 13, 2011
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral – And How it Changed the American West, by Jeff Guinn. Tulsa World, May 8, 2011
Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom, by Steven Weitzman. The Forward, May 6, 2011
The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed, by Adam Bryant. Barron’s Financial Weekly, May 2, 2011
The Great Night, by Chris Adrian. The San Francisco Chronicle, May 1, 2011
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge, by T. J. English. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 1, 2011
Reading My Father, by Alexandra Styron, “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, April 28, 2011
The Company We Keep: A HusbandAndWife TrueLife Spy Story, by Robert Baer and Dayna Baer. The Jerusalem Post, April 15, 2011
A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life, by Deval Patrick. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 14, 2011
The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War, by Ben Shephard. Tulsa World, April 3, 2011
Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game, by Rob Ruck. The Florida Courier, April 1, 2011
While Mortals Sleep, by Kurt Vonnegut. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 20, 2011 (reprinted in Cornell Alumni Magazine, May/June, 2011)
Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: The Lost Dreams of my Iraqi Family, by Tamara Chalabi. The Jerusalem Post, March 18, 2011
O: A Presidential Novel, by Anonymous. The Florida Courier, March 18, 2011
Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right, by Dominic Sandbrook. Tulsa World, March 13, 2011
Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping our World, by Doug Saunders. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, March 11, 2011
Branch Rickey, by Jimmy Breslin. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 11, 2011
Romanov Riches: Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars, by Solomon Volkov. The Boston Globe, March 10, 2011
The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America, by Richard Kluger. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 6, 2011
Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage, by Douglas Waller. The Portland Oregonian, March 5, 2011
Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany, by Richard Lucas. The Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2011
How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III, by Ron Rosenbaum. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 27, 2011
Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Rise and Fall – From America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness, by Frank Brady. The Jerusalem Post, February 21, 2011
Known and Unknown: A Memoir, by Donald Rumsfeld. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 21, 2011
Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics, by John J. Mearsheimer. Tulsa World, February 20, 2011
My Father’s Fortune: A Life, by Michael Frayn. The Boston Globe, February 13, 2011
Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War, by Andrew J. Bacevich. Barron’s Financial Weekly, February 7, 2011
Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau, by Brian Walker. The Australian, February 5, 2011
The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort, by Perry Mehrling. Tulsa World, January 30, 2011
The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom 18791960, by Douglas Brinkley. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 30, 2011
Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surprising Trends That Will Reshape the Global Economy, by Daniel Altman. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, January 27, 2011
The Emotional Calendar: Understanding Seasonal Influences and Milestones to Become Happier, More Fulfilled, and in Control of Your Life, by John R. Sharp, M. D. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 27, 2011
J. D. Salinger: A Life, by Kenneth Slawenski. The Portland Oregonian, January 22, 2011 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer, by Jane Smiley. Tulsa World, January 16, 2011
The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East, by Timur Kuran. The Jerusalem Post, January 14, 2011
New Essays in American Jewish History, edited by Pamela S. Nadell, Jonathan D. Sarna and Lance J. Sussman. The Forward, January 14, 2011
Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man’s Quest to Preserve the World’s Greatest Animals, by Jay Kirk. The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 9, 2011
The Killing of Crazy Horse, by Thomas Powers. Tulsa World, January 9, 2011
Toward the Setting Sun: John Ross, the Cherokees, and the Trail of Tears, by Brian Hicks. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 9, 2011
American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt, by Daniel Rasmussen. The Kansas City Star, January 9, 2011
Thinking About Leadership, by Nannerl O. Keohane. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 5, 2011
Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power, by Robert D. Kaplan. Tulsa World, January 2, 2011
Joe Louis: Hard Times Man, by Randy Roberts. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 26, 2010
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices, by Noah Feldman. The Jerusalem Post, December 17, 2010
America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag, by Sarah Palin. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 13, 2010
My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth that Led to an American Tragedy, by Nora Titone. Tulsa World, December 12, 2010
The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb, by Allen M. Hornblum. The Forward, December 10, 2010 (cited by the National Book Critics Circle as “the exemplary review of the week”)
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 17871788, by Pauline Maier. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 8, 2010
The Secret History of MI6: 19091949, by Keith Jeffrey. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 6, 2010
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 5, 1010
History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage, by Beth S. Wenger. The Jerusalem Post, December 3, 2010
Decision Points, by George W. Bush. The Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2010
Driven West: Andrew Jackson’s Trail of Tears to the Civil War, by A. J. Langguth. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 21, 2010
My Reading Life, by Pat Conroy. The Boston Globe, November 21, 2010
Obama’s Wars, by Bob Woodward; The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad, by Tariq Ali. The Australian, November 20, 2010
Frank: The Voice, by James Kaplan. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, November 9, 2010
Why the West Rules – For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future, by Ian Morris. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, October 31, 2010
Madison and Jefferson, by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg. Tulsa World, October 31, 2010
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, by Jane Leavy. Tulsa World, October 24, 2010 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
By Nightfall: A Novel, by Michael Cunningham. The Portland Oregonian, October 23, 2010
Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion, by Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 15, 2010
Nemesis, by Philip Roth. The Jerusalem Post, October 15, 2010
A Journey: My Political Life, by Tony Blair. Tulsa World, October 10, 2010
This Is Not Florida: How Al Franken Won The Minnesota Senate Recount, by Jay Weiner. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 10, 2010
Washington: A Life, by Ron Chernow. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, October 9, 2010
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, by Steven Johnson. The Portland Oregonian, October 2, 2010
White House Diary, by Jimmy Carter. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 27, 2010
The “Good War” in American Memory, by John Bodnar. Tulsa World, September 26, 2010
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/911/Iraq, by John W. Dower. The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 26, 2010
An American Type: A Novel, by Henry Roth. The Jerusalem Post, September 25, 2010
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt, by Robert Gottlieb. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, September 24, 2010
American Caesars: The Lives of U.S. Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush, by Nigel Hamilton. The Boston Globe, September 8, 2010
Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, by John Quiggin. Barron’s Financial Weekly, September 6, 2010
The Land of Blood and Honey: The Rise of Modern Israel, by Martin Van Creveld. Tulsa World, August 22, 2010
Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law, by Gabriel Schoenfeld. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 22, 2010
Freedom: A Novel, by Jonathan Franzen. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 22, 2010
Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Jewish Right, by Benjamin Balint. The Jerusalem Post, August 20, 2010
Rich Boy: A Novel, by Sharon Pomerantz. The Jerusalem Post, August 13, 2010
Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Breakout of the Pacific War, by John D. Lukacs, The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 8, 2010
7 Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin, by James Sullivan. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 7, 2010 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired CHICAGO, by Douglas Perry. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, August 5, 2010
The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Murder and Madness in Saratoga’s Gilded Age, by Geoffrey O’Brien. The Boston Globe, August 1, 2010
Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids and What We Can Do About It, by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus. Tulsa World, July 25, 2010
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, by Matt Ridley. The Portland Oregonian, July 17, 2010
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family Feuds, by Lyndall Gordon. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 10, 2010
Twilight at the World of Tomorrow: Genius, Madness, and Murder, and the 1939 World’s Fair on the Brink of War, by James Mauro. Tulsa World, July 4, 2010
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance, by Wilbert Rideau. Tulsa World, June 27, 2010
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, by David Kirkpatrick. The Portland Oregonian, June 26, 2010
Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future, by Stephen Kinzer. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, June 25, 2010
Hitch22: A Memoir, by Christopher Hitchens. The Jerusalem Post, June 25, 2010
The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents, by Alex Butterworth. The Kansas City Star, June 19, 2010
The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City – and Determined the Future of Cities, by Joe Flood. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 16, 2010
Globish: How the English Language Became the World’s Language, by Robert McCrum. The Portland Oregonian, June 12, 2010
The Book in the Renaissance, by Andrew Pettegree. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 7, 2010
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898, by Evan Thomas. Tulsa World, June 6, 2010
Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self, by Marilynne Robinson. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 6, 2010
Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey. Tulsa World, May 30, 2010
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, by Bill Clegg. Tulsa World, May 30, 2010 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, by David Remnick. The Jerusalem Post, May 28, 2010
The Dead Republic, by Roddy Doyle. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 23, 2010
Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, by Ian Buruma. The Jerusalem Post, May 21, 2010
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, by Alan Brinkley. Tulsa World, May 16, 2010
Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court, by Jeff Shesol. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 9, 2010 (reprinted November 28, 2010)
Sixty to Zero: An Inside Look at the Collapse of General Motors – and the Detroit Auto Industry, by Alex Taylor III. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, May 8, 2010
Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival, by Dean King. The Portland Oregonian, May 8, 2010
Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles, by Panthea Reid. The Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2010
The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World, by Ben Wildavsky. The Boston Globe, April 29, 2010
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion, by Bettye CollierThomas. Tulsa World, April 25, 2010
The Game From Where I Stand: A Ballplayer’s Inside View, by Doug Glanville. Tulsa World, April 18, 2010 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, by David Grann. The Portland Oregonian, April 17, 2010
The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected, by Jonathan R. Cole. The Boston Globe, April 16, 2010
Kazan on Directing, by Elia Kazan. The Forward, April 9, 2010
The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University, by Louis Menand. The Boston Globe, April 6, 2010
Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War, by Ted Morgan. The Pittsburgh PostGazette and Tulsa World, March 28, 2010
The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on WellBeing, by Derek Bok. The Boston Globe, March 21, 2010
Our Hero: Superman on Earth, by Tom De Haven. Tulsa World, March 21, 2010
Backing into Forward, by Jules Feiffer. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 21, 2010
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, by Diane Ravitch. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, March 16, 2010
The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 14, 2010
Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture, by Alice Echols. Tulsa World, March 14, 2010
Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and WellBeing, by George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton. Barron’s Financial Weekly, March 1, 2010
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche, by Ethan Watters. Tulsa World, February 28, 2010
Into the Story: A Writer’s Journey through Life, Politics, Sports and Loss, by David Maraniss. The Boston Globe, February 28, 2010
The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again, by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols. The Jerusalem Post, February 26, 2010
On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System, by Henry M. Paulson, Jr. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 21, 2010
Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, by David Bianculli. Tulsa World, February 14, 2010
The Case for God, by Karen Armstrong. Tulsa World, February 14, 2010
The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr, by Ken Gormley. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 14, 2010
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a TwentiethCentury Skeptic, by Michael Scammell. The Forward, January 29, 2010
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and The National Security State, by Garry Wills. The Boston Globe, January 24, 2010
The Believers: How America Fell for Bernard Madoff’s $65 Billion Investment Scam, by Adam LeBor. The Jerusalem Post, January 22, 2010
In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History, by Michael Fellman. Tulsa World, January 17, 2010
American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, by Joan Biskupic. Tulsa World, January 3, 2010
Noah’s Compass, by Anne Tyler. The Baltimore Sun, January 3, 2010
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel H. Pink. The Portland Oregonian, January 3, 2010
FDR’s Deadly Secret, by Steven Lomazow and Eric Fettman. Tulsa World, December 27, 2009
Angler Management: The Day I Died While Fly Fishing and Other Essays, by Jack Ohman. The Portland Oregonian, December 27, 2009
Going Rogue: An American Life, by Sarah Palin. The Jerusalem Post, December 25, 2009
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jennifer Burns. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 20, 2009
Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5, by Christopher Andrew. Tulsa World, December 20, 2009
Last Night in Twisted River, by John Irving. Tulsa World, December 13, 2009
Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret, by Steve Luxenberg. The Forward, December 11, 2009
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff. Barron’s Financial Weekly, December 7, 2009
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, by John Milton Cooper, Jr. Tulsa World, December 6, 2009
Devil’s Dream: A Novel, by Madison Smartt Bell. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 29, 2009
Pure Goldwater, by John W. Dean and Barry M. Goldwater, Jr. Tulsa World, November 29, 2009
America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story, by Bruce Feiler. Tulsa World, November 29, 2009
Look at the Birdie, by Kurt Vonnegut. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, November 25, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Too Much Happiness, by Alice Munro. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 22, 2009
The Humbling, by Philip Roth. The Jerusalem Post, November 13, 2009
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, by James McManus. The Boston Globe, November 8, 2009
Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics, by Joyce Purnick. The Jerusalem Post, November 6, 2009
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, by Robert M. Edsel. Tulsa World, November 1, 2009
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, by Morris Dickstein. Tulsa World, November 1, 2009
City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ‘70s, by Edmund White. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 22, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. The Portland Oregonian, October 17, 2009
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, by Gail Collins. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, October 14, 2009
Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance, by Garrison Keillor. Tulsa World, October 11, 2009
American Passage: The History of Ellis Island, by Vincent J. Cannato. The Jerusalem Post, October 9, 2009
Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen, by Joe Drape. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, October 6, 2009
True Compass: A Memoir, by Edward M. Kennedy. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, October 4, 2009
The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools, by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. The Boston Globe, September 27, 2009
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President, by Taylor Branch. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 27, 2009
Homer & Langley, by E. L. Doctorow. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 22, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters, by Louis Begley. The Forward, September 18, 2009
You or Someone Like You, by Chandler Burr. The Jerusalem Post, September 11, 2009
The Retail Revolution: How WalMart Created a Brave New World of Business, by Nelson Lichtenstein. Barron’s Financial Weekly, September 7, 2009
Free: The Future of a Radical Price, by Chris Anderson. The Jerusalem Post, August 28, 2009
In Rooms of Memory, by Hilary Masters. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 16, 2009
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘N’ Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music, by Elijah Wald. Tulsa World, August 16, 2009 (reprinted in California Chronicle, August 16, 2009)
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture, by Ellen Ruppell Shell. Tulsa World, August 9, 2009
That Old Cape Magic, by Richard Russo. The Boston Globe, August 9, 2009
Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story, by Evan I. Schwartz. Tulsa World, August 2, 2009
The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses, by Stephen Norwood. The Boston Globe, July 26, 2009
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, by Douglas Brinkley. The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 2009
The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded From the Confederacy, by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer. Tulsa World, July 26, 2009
Touch, by Francine Prose. Tulsa World, July 26, 2009
Judaism Does Not Equal Israel, by Marc Ellis; Einstein on Israel and Zionism: His Provocative Ideas About the Middle East, by Fred Jerome. The Forward, July 24, 2009
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal, by Ben Mezrich. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 23, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Reagan’s Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster, by Martin Anderson and Annelise Anderson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 19, 2009
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, by David Kilcullen. The Jerusalem Post, July 17, 2009
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon, by Craig Nelson. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, July 17, 2009
The Devil’s Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age, by Gary M. Pomerantz. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, July 9, 2009
The Last Trials of Clarence Darrow, by Donald McRae. Tulsa World, June 28, 2009
Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev. The Portland Oregonian, June 28,2009
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T. J. Stiles. Tulsa World, June 21, 2009
The Environmental Justice, by Adam M. Sowards. The Portland Oregonian, June 21, 2009
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, by Larry Tye. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 21, 2009
Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America, by JeffreyShandler. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 21, 2009
Talking Together: Public Deliberation and Political Participation in America, by Lawrence R. Jacobs, Fay Lomax Cook, and Michael X. Delli Carpini. The Daily Kos (online) www.dailykos.com, June 20, 2009 (coauthored with Robert Spitzer)
A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent into Depression, by Richard A. Posner. The Jerusalem Post, June 19, 2009
Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music, by Greg Kot. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 15, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, by Alain de Botton. The Boston Globe, June 14, 2009
American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone, by D. D. Guttenplan. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, June 8, 2009
After Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age of New York Baseball, by Robert E. Murphy. Tulsa World, June 7, 2009
Rogues’ Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum, by Michael Gross. Tulsa World, June 7, 2009
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street, by Justin Fox. Barron’s Financial Weekly, June 1, 2009
The American Future: A History, by Simon Schama. The Boston Globe, May 24, 2009
Singin’ in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece, by Earl J. Hess and Pratibha A. Dabholkar. Tulsa World, May 24, 2009
The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement, by Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell, PhD. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 21, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 20062008, by Thomas E. Ricks. The Jerusalem Post, May 15, 2009
Pay to Play: How Rod Blagojevich Turned Political Corruption Into a National Show, by Elizabeth Brackett. The Baltimore Sun, May 10, 2009
Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century, by Barry Mazor. Tulsa World, May 10, 2009
The Day We Found The Universe, by Marcia Bartusiak. Tulsa World, May 3, 2009
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience, by Kirstin Downey. Tulsa World, May 3, 2009
The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story, by Elliott West. The Portland Oregonian, May 3, 2009
Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy, by Peter S. Canellos. The Jerusalem Post, May 1, 2009
Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend, by Paul Schneider. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 26, 2009
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life, by Gerald Martin. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 26, 2009 (reprinted in The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 17, 2009)
Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing, by Steven J. Zipperstein. The Forward, April 24, 2009
Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself, by Michael Shapiro. Tulsa World, April 19, 2009
Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee, by Allan Barra. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 12, 2009
As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires, by Bruce Weber. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, April 6, 2009
The Wall Street Journal Guide To The End Of Wall Street As We Know It: What You Need To Know About The Greatest Financial Crisis Of Our Time And How To Survive It, by David Kansas. Barron’s Financial Weekly, April 6, 2009
Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America, by Julia Angwin. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 2, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Alger Hiss and the Battle for History, by Susan Jacoby. The New York Observer, March 30, 2009
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi, by Neal Bascomb. The Portland Oregonian, March 27, 2009
So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government, by Robert G. Kaiser. Tulsa World, March 22, 2009
Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (And Redeeming Promise) Of Our Country, by William Greider. The Baltimore Sun, March 22, 2009
Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life, by Adam Gopnik. The Boston Globe, March 15, 2009
Blood & Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism, by Michael Burleigh. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 15, 2009
The Future of Liberalism, by Alan Wolfe. The Boston Globe, March 8, 2009
Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years, by Cari Beauchamp. Tulsa World, March 8, 2009
1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History, by Charles Bracelen Flood. Tulsa World, March 1, 2009
Snark, by David Denby. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 25, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future, by Will Bunch. Tulsa World, February 22, 2009
Frankly, My Dear: Gone With the Wind Revisited, by Molly Haskell. Tulsa World, February 22, 2009
A Mad Desire to Dance, by Elie Wiesel. The Jerusalem Post, February 20, 2009
Halliburton’s Army: The Long, Strange Tale of a Private, Profitable and Out of Control Texas Oil Company, by Pratap Chatterjee. The Portland Oregonian, February 13, 2009
The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch, by Michael Wolff. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 11, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
The Women, by T. C. Boyle. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 8, 2009
Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy From Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, by Peter W. Rodman. Tulsa World, February 8, 2009
Chicago: A Novel, by Alaa Al Aswany. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 1, 2009
Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy, by Michael Soussan. Tulsa World, January 25, 2009
How To Break A Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, To Take Down The Deadliest Man in Iraq, by Matthew Alexander, with John R. Bruning. Tulsa World, January 18, 2009
The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith and the Birth of America, by Steven Johnson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 18, 2009
Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, by Fred Kaplan. The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 11, 2009
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North, by Thomas J. Sugrue. Tulsa World, January 11, 2009
The Moguls and The Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II, by David Welky. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 9, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
The Pages in Between, by Erin Einhorn. The Jerusalem Post, January 1, 2009
Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America, by Mike Huckabee. Tulsa World, December 14, 2008
Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, by John Stauffer. The Baltimore Sun, December 7, 2008
Call Me Ted, by Ted Turner with Bill Burke. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 2, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
New Deal or Raw Deal: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, by Burton W. Folsom, Jr. Barron’s Financial Weekly, December 1, 2008
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, by H. W. Brands. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 30, 2008
Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson's Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution and What It Means for America Today, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo. Tulsa World, November 30, 2008
Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, edited by Michael Lewis. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 23, 2008
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, by Alice Schroeder. The Baltimore Sun, November 23, 2008
War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.Mexican War, by Brian DeLay. Tulsa World, November 23, 2008
The Jewel of Medina: A Novel, by Sherry Jones. The Jerusalem Post, November 14, 2008
The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread, by Maria Balinska. The Forward, November 14, 2008
The Great Brain Suck and Other American Epiphanies, by Eugene Halton. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, November 7, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Fred Astaire, by Joseph Epstein. The Boston Globe, November 2, 2008
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, by George C. Herring. The Jerusalem Post, October 24, 2008
Some of It Was Fun: Working with RFK and LBJ, by Nicholas deB. Katzenbach. Tulsa World, October 19, 2008
The Widows of Eastwick, by John Updike. The Jerusalem Post, October 7, 2008
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – And How it Can Renew America, by Thomas L. Friedman. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 7, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
PhilanthroCapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World, by Matthew Bishop and Michael Green. Barron’s Financial Weekly, October 6, 2008
Planet Google, by Randall Stross. The Portland Oregonian, October 5, 2008
The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, by Jerome R. Corsi. The Jerusalem Post, October 3, 2008
Indignation, by Philip Roth. The Jerusalem Post, September 19, 2008
They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It, by Brigitte Gabriel; Against Us: The New Face of America’s Enemies in the Muslim World, by Jim Sciutto. The Baltimore Sun, September 7, 2008
Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, by Rick Wartzman. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 31, 2008
The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, by Ron Suskind. The Jerusalem Post, August 29, 2008
Liberty: A Novel of Lake Wobegon, by Garrison Keillor. The Baltimore Sun, August 24, 2008
Man in the Dark, by Paul Auster. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 24, 2008
The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman and Davis in the Mexican War, 18461848, by Martin Dugard. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 24, 2008
Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love, by Lara Vapnyar. The Jerusalem Post, August 15, 2008
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, by Andrew J. Bacevich. The New York Observer, August 11, 2008
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, by Thomas Frank. The Baltimore Sun, August 10, 2008
The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America, by Maury Klein. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 10, 2008
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception, by Scott McClellan. The Jerusalem Post, August 8, 2008
1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance, by Gavin Menzies. The Baltimore Sun, July 27, 2008
My Sister, My Love, by Joyce Carol Oates. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 25, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism, by Douglas J. Feith. The Jerusalem Post, July 25, 2008
The Age of Reagan: A History, 19742008, by Sean Wilentz. The Boston Globe, July 20, 2008
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do, by Tom Vanderbilt. The Pittsburg PostGazette, July 20, 2008
The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President, edited by Jeffrey A. Engel. The Baltimore Sun, July 13, 2008
Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy, by Natan Sharansky with Shira Wolosky Weiss. The Jerusalem Post, July 11, 2008
The Kingmakers: How the Media Threatens Our Security and Our Democracy, by Mike Gravel and David Eisenbach. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 2, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, by Mark Bauerlein. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 19, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of LikeMinded America is Tearing Us Apart, by Bill Bishop. With Robert Cushing. The Boston Globe, June 15, 2008
Only A Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul, by Kenneth R. Miller; The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, by Leonard Mlodinow; Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith, by George E. Vaillant. The Baltimore Sun, June 15, 2008
Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership, by Madeleine Albright. The Jerusalem Post, June 13, 2008
White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters From FDR to George W. Bush, by Robert Schlesinger. The Baltimore Sun, June 8, 2008
Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice, by Eric Lichtblau. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 1, 2008
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, by Rick Perlstein. The Portland Oregonian, June 1, 2008
Audition: A Memoir, by Barbara Walters. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 27, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
The PostAmerican World, by Fareed Zakaria. The Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2008
The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage, by Daniel Mark Epstein. The Baltimore Sun, May 18, 2008
The Man Who Loved China: Joseph Needham and the Making of a Masterpiece, by Simon Winchester. The Portland Oregonian, May 18, 2008
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, by Tony Horwitz. The Baltimore Sun, May 11, 2008
The Investor's Dilemma: How Mutual Funds are Betraying Your Trust and What to Do About It, by Louis Lowenstein. Barron’s Financial Weekly, May 5, 2008
Strange Bedfellows: How LateNight Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke, by Russell Peterson. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 1, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen, by Susan Griffin. The Baltimore Sun, April 27, 2008
The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country, by Laton McCartney; Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You With the Bill), by David Cay Johnston; The Age of American Unreason, by Susan Jacoby. The Baltimore Sun, April 20, 2008
Dictation, by Cynthia Ozick. The Jerusalem Post, April 18, 2008
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, by Mark Harris. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 17, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Worlds at War: The 2,500 Year Struggle Between East and West, by Anthony Pagden. The Baltimore Sun, April 13, 2008
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism, by Kevin Phillips. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 6, 2008
The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, by Parag Khanna. The Baltimore Sun, April 6, 2008
In Search of the Blues, by Marybeth Hamilton. The Boston Globe, March 23, 2008
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes. The Jerusalem Post, March 21, 2008
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, by Nicholson Baker. The Boston Globe, March 9, 2008
AmericanMade: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA When FDR Put the Nation to Work, by Nick Taylor. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 9, 2008
President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman, by William Lee Miller. The Baltimore Sun, February 24, 2008
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy: From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond, by Peter Gay. The Jerusalem Post, February 22, 2008
Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith & Politics After the Religious Right, by E. J. Dionne, Jr. The New York Observer, February 18, 2008
The Slave Ship: A Human History, by Marcus Rediker. The Baltimore Sun, February 10, 2008
The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World, by Tim Harford. The Baltimore Sun, February 3, 2008
Day Of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed are Tearing America Apart, by Patrick J. Buchanan. The Jerusalem Post, February 1, 2008
Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes & Asides from The National Review, by William F. Buckley, Jr. The Baltimore Sun, January 27, 2008
The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America, by Beth S. Wenger. The Baltimore Sun, January 13, 2008
Aaronsohn's Maps: The Untold Story of the Man Who Might Have Created Peace in the Middle East, by Patricia Goldstone. The Jerusalem Post, January 11, 2008
Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America, by Jonathan Gould. The Baltimore Sun, January 6, 2008
The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (On A Shag Rug) in the Seventies, by Thomas Hine. The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 6, 2008
WorstCase Scenarios, by Cass R. Sunstein. The Baltimore Sun, December 30, 2007
Trying Leviathan: The NineteenthCentury New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature, by D. Graham Burnett. The New York Observer, December 17, 2007
Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—And Why They Fall, by Amy Chua. The Baltimore Sun, December 16, 2007
Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure, by Michael Chabon. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 2, 2007
The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity, by Robert Kuttner. The Baltimore Sun, December 2, 2007
A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, by Carl Bernstein. The Jerusalem Post, November 30, 2007
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign, by Edward J. Larson. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 25, 2007
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 18151848, by Daniel Walker Howe. The Baltimore Sun, November 18, 2007
On God: An Uncommon Conversation, by Norman Mailer with Michael Lennon. The Jerusalem Post, November 16, 2007
Abraham Epstein: The Forgotten Father of Social Security, by Pierre Epstein. The Forward, November 9, 2007
God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, by Walter Russell Mead. The Baltimore Sun, November 4, 2007
Shopping for God: How Christianity Went From In Your Heart To In Your Face, by James B. Twitchell. The Baltimore Sun, October 28, 2007
King of the Club: Richard Grasso and the Survival of the New York Stock Exchange, by Charles Gasparino. The New York Observer (online) http://www.observer.com, October 23, 2007
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race, by Richard Rhodes. The Baltimore Sun, October 21, 2007
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 14, 2007
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, by David Michaelis. The Baltimore Sun, October 14, 2007
The FBI: A History, by Rhodri JeffreysJones. The Baltimore Sun, October 7, 2007
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by John J. Mearsheimer and Stepehn M. Walt. The Jerusalem Post, October 3, 2007
In A Cardboard Belt! Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage, by Joseph Epstein. The Boston Globe, September 30, 2007
Head and Heart: American Christianities, by Garry Wills. The Baltimore Sun, September 30, 2007
Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path of Power, by Marcus Mabry. The Jerusalem Post, September 28, 2007
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, by David Halberstam. The Baltimore Sun, September 23, 2007
The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty, by Wilfrid Sheed. The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 23, 2007
Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life, by Anthony T. Kronman. The Baltimore Sun, September 16, 2007
Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy, by Charlie Savage. The Baltimore Sun, September 9, 2007
A Secular Age, by Charles Taylor. The Baltimore Sun, September 9, 2007
The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe, by Greg Behrman. The Baltimore Sun, August 26, 2007
Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into The Bard, by Jack Lynch. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 21, 2007
The Politics of Heaven: America in Fearful Times, by Earl Shorris. The Baltimore Sun, August 19, 2007
Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea, by Richard Kluger. The Baltimore Sun, August 12, 2007
Capital Ideas Evolving, by Peter L. Bernstein. Barron’s Financial Weekly, August 6, 2007
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, by Amity Shlaes. The Baltimore Sun, August 5, 2007
The Gravedigger's Daughter, by Joyce Carol Oates. The Jerusalem Post, August 3, 2007
Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World, by Dennis Ross. The Baltimore Sun, July 29, 2007
Attendant Cruelties: Nation and Nationalism in American History, by Patrice Higonnet. The Baltimore Sun, July 22, 2007
The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation, by Drew Westen. The Baltimore Sun, July 15, 2007
Stealing Lincoln’s Body, by Thomas J. Craughwell. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 2007
Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency, by William C. Harris. The Baltimore Sun, July 8, 2007
Mere Anarchy, by Woody Allen. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 5, 2007
The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars, by Robert D. Hormats. The Baltimore Sun, July 1, 2007
Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower, by Zbigniew Brzezinski. The Jerusalem Post, June 29, 2007
The Life of Kingsley Amis, by Zachary Leader. The Baltimore Sun, June 24, 2007
The Clarks of Cooperstown, by Nicholas Fox Weber. The Baltimore Sun, June 17, 2007
Ralph Ellison, by Arnold Rampersad. The Baltimore Sun, June 10, 2007
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 17891989, by Michael Beschloss. The Baltimore Sun, June 3, 2007
FDR, by Jean Edward Smith. The Baltimore Sun, May 27, 2007
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA, by George Tenet (with Bill Harlow). The Jerusalem Post, May 25, 2007
Freedom’s Power: The True Force of Liberalism, by Paul Starr. The Baltimore Sun, May 20, 2007
Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry, by Holly GeorgeWarren. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 20, 2007
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power, by Robert Dallek. The Jerusalem Post, May 18, 2007
A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War, by Scott Nelson and Carol Sheriff. The Baltimore Sun, May 13, 2007
The Road to Disunion: Secessionists Triumphant 18541861, by William W. Freehling. The Baltimore Sun, May 6, 2007
Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels, by Jill Jonnes. The Baltimore Sun, April 29, 2007
Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture, by Jon Savage. The Boston Globe, April 22, 2007
ColorBlind Justice: Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality, by Mark Elliott. The Baltimore Sun, April 22, 2007
What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War, by Chandra Manning. The Baltimore Sun, April 15, 2007
Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 19481961, by James L. Baughman. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 8, 2007
The Silence of the Rational Center: Why American Foreign Policy is Failing, by Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke. The Baltimore Sun, April 8, 2007
Imperfect Presidents: Tales of Misadventure and Triumph, by Jim Cullen. The Baltimore Sun, April 1, 2007
The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian, by Heather Ewing. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 1, 2007
At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches, by Susan Sontag. The Jerusalem Post, March 30, 2007
Presidential Power: Unchecked & Unbalanced, by Matthew Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg. The Baltimore Sun, March 25, 2007
Lincoln’s Smile and Other Enigmas, by Alan Trachtenberg. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 11, 2007
The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, by Dinesh D’Souza. The Jerusalem Post, February 23, 2007
A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now, by Peter Wood. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 2007
Calvin Coolidge, by David Greenberg. The Baltimore Sun, February 11, 2007
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, by Chalmers Johnson. The New York Observer (online) http://www.observer.com. February 7, 2007
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy, by Barbara Ehrenreich. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 4, 2007
Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, The Crisis That Shocked the Nation, by Elizabeth Jacoway. The Baltimore Sun, February 4, 2007
The Averaged American: Survey, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public, by Sarah Igo. The Baltimore Sun, January 28, 2007
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present, by Michael Oren. The Baltimore Sun, January 14, 2007
The Foundation: A Great American Secret: How Private Wealth is Changing the World, by Joel Fleishman. The Baltimore Sun, January 7, 2007
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, by Barack Obama. The Jerusalem Post, January 5, 2007
Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History, by Deborah R. Weiner. The Forward, January 5, 2007
Mellon: An American Life, by David Cannadine. Barron’s Financial Weekly, January 1, 2007
On the Wealth of Nations, by P.J. O’Rourke. The Baltimore Sun, December 31, 2006
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Love, Their Work, by Susan Cheever. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 31, 2006
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism, by Robert D. Richardson. The Boston Globe, December 24, 2006
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, by Jimmy Carter. The Jerusalem Post, December 22, 2006
The Emotion Machine: CommonSense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence and The Future of the Human Mind, by Marvin Minsky. The Baltimore Sun, December 17, 2006
The Conference on Beautiful Moments, by Richard Burgin. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 17, 2006
The Wicked Son: AntiSemitism, SelfHatred and the Jews, by David Mamet. The Baltimore Sun, December 3, 2006
George Gershwin: His Life and Work, by Howard Pollack. The Baltimore Sun, November 26, 2006
Patriotism and Other Mistakes, by George Kateb. The New York Observer (online) http://www.observer.com. November 15, 2006
The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder, by Daniel Stashower. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 12, 2006
Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, The Untold Story of an American Legend, by Scott Reynolds Nelson. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 5, 2006
Dangerous Nation: America’s Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, by Robert Kagan. The New York Observer (online) http://www.observer.com. November 1, 2006.
A Glorious Disaster: Barry Goldwater’s Presidential Campaign and the Origins of the Conservative Movement, by J. William Middendorf II. The Baltimore Sun, October 29, 2006
What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education, by Michael Bérubé. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 22, 2006
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, by Neal Gabler. The Baltimore Sun, October 15, 2006
Fortunate Son: The Life of Elvis Presley, by Charles L. Ponce de Leon. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 8, 2006
A WellPaid Slave: Curt Flood’s Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports, by Brad Snyder. The Baltimore Sun, October 8, 2006
Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball, by Alan Klein. Barron’s Financial Weekly, October 2, 2006
A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth Century New York, by Timothy Gilfoyle. The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 17, 2006
Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting, by Aviel Rubin; Does American Democracy Still Work?, by Alan Wolfe; Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles For a New Political Debate, by Ronald Dworkin. The New York Observer (online): http://www.observer.com. September 13, 2006
Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer, by C. S. Monaco. The Forward, September 1, 2006
There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 19451975, by Jason Sokol. The Baltimore Sun, August 27, 2006
Friendship: An Expose, by Joseph Epstein. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 27, 2006
Empire & Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond, by Rock Brynner. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 20, 2006
Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death, by Deborah Blum. The Baltimore Sun, August 13, 2006
The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for Justice, by Chad Millman. The New York Observer (online): http://www.observer.com. July 12, 2006
Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America, by Tom Lutz. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 2, 2006
Nearest Thing to Heaven: The Empire State Building and American Dreams, by Mark Kingwell. The New York Observer (online): http://www.observer.com, June 28, 2006
Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair, by Anthony Arthur. The Boston Globe, June 18, 2006
Uncommon Carriers, by John McPhee. The Baltimore Sun, June 11, 2006
Terrorist, by John Updike. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 4, 2006
The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, by Leigh Montville. The Boston Globe, June 4, 2006
Possible Side Effects: True Stories, by Augusten Burroughs. The Baltimore Sun, May 21, 2006
Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq, by Stephen Kinzer. The New York Observer (online): http://www.observer.com, May 3, 2006
Conversation: A History of a Declining Art, by Stephen Miller. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 30, 2006
Saving South Beach, by M. Barron Stofik. The Forward, April 14, 2006
A Life That Matters: The Legacy of Terri Schiavo—A Lesson for Us All, by Mary and Robert Schindler with Suzanne Schindler Vitadamo and Bobby Schindler; Terri: The Truth, by Michael Schiavo with Michael Hirsh. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 9, 2006
Manliness, by Harvey C. Mansfield. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6, 2006
American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn, by Ted Steinberg; Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping, by Judith Levine; The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies, by Muriel R. Gillick. The Boston Globe, March 26, 2006
Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, by Michael Rosenthal. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 12, 2006
Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America, by Philip Jenkins. The New York Observer (online): http://www.observer.com, March 8, 2006
Is Rock Dead?, by Kevin J.H. Dettmar. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 21, 2006
Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America, by Eyal Press. The Baltimore Sun, February 19, 2006
Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve, by Sandra M. Gilbert. The Boston Globe, February 5, 2006
American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville, by BernardHenri Lévy. The New York Observer, January 30, 2006
The Cold War: A New History, by John Lewis Gaddis. The New York Observer, January 9, 2006
Elia Kazan: A Biography, by Richard Schickel. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 22, 2005
Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, by Peter Guralnick. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 4, 2005
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, by Barbara Ehrenreich. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 13, 2005
Henry Adams and the Making of America, by Garry Wills. The Boston Globe, November 13, 2005
What Goes Up, by Eric Weiner. Barron’s Financial Weekly, November 7, 2005
Melville: His World and Work, by Andrew Delbanco; Mark Twain: A Life, by Ron Powers. The Boston Globe, September 18, 2005
The King of the Jews, by Nick Tosches. The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 8, 2005
The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century, by Steven Watts. The New York Observer, August 15, 2005
Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, by Elizabeth Royte. The Boston Globe, July 3, 2005
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights, by David Reynolds. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 3, 2005
Harvard Rules: The Struggle for the Soul of the World’s Most Powerful University, by Richard Bradley. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 12, 2005
Jewish Life in SmallTown America: A History, by Lee Shai Weissbach. The Forward, May 13, 2005
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer And The Secret City of Los Alamos, by Jennet Conant. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 9, 2005
Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It, by Alan Wolfe. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 1, 2005
The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan, by John Ehrman; Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s, by Gil Troy. The New York Observer, March 28, 2005
The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood, by David Thomson. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 27, 2005
Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America, by Newt Gingrich; Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from A Controversial Life, by Michael Medved; It’s My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America, by Christine Todd Whitman. The New York Observer, February 14, 2005
John James Audubon: The Making of an American, by Richard Rhodes. The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 16, 2005
Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp, by Steven Lubet. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 26, 2004
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, by Anne Norton. The New York Observer, November 1, 2004
Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical, by Andrea Most. The Forward,
October 15, 2004
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book, by Gerard Jones.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 10, 2004
Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America, by Thurston Clarke; High Noon In The Cold War: Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Max Frankel. The New York Observer, October 4, 2004
Why The Electoral College Is Bad For America, by George C. Edwards III. The New York Observer, September 20, 2004
Sore Winners (and the Rest of Us) in George Bush’s America, by John Powers. The New York Observer, August 2, 2004 (and a Letters to the Editor exchange between Joe Conason and me, August 16, 2004)
Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates In the Golden Age, by Marcus Rediker. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 4, 2004
Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876 by William Rehnquist. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 18, 2004
Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education by David Kirp. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 28, 2003
Something for Nothing: Luck in America, by Jackson Lears. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 19, 2003
Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind, by Gerald Graff. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 15, 2003
May the Best Team Win: Baseball Economics and Public Policy, by Andrew Zimbalist. Barron’s Financial Weekly, June 2, 2003
Universities in the Marketplace, by Derek Bok. Barron’s Financial Weekly, April 7, 2003
“Short and Sweet,” The New York Review of Books, May 29, 1980 (coauthored with Murray Steinberg)
“History Revised; The Boss as Saint,” The Ithaca Journal, January 29, 1977
“Henry on the Couch,” The Ithaca Journal, December 4, 1976
In The Shadow Of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States, by Ana Raquel Minian. The Jerusalem Post, May 2, 2024
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 21, 2024
Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters, by Susan Page. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 17, 2024
Is College Worth It?: Class and the Myth of the College Premium, by Richard Ohmann and Ira Shor. Inside Higher Ed, (co-authored with David Wippman), April 12, 2024
Hell Put To Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America’s Second Slavery, by Earl Swift. The Florida Courier, April 5, 2024
The Anxious Generation: How The Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing An Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 21, 2024 (reposted in National League of Cities, nlc.hu, Budapest, Hungary April 8, 2024)
The Black Box: Writing the Race, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Florida Courier, March 15, 2024
Leaving: A Novel, by Roxana Robinson. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 27, 2024
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool, by James Kaplan. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 27, 2024 (and 8 other media outlets)
Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed A Country and Its Sounds, by Michael Broyles. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 26, 2024
Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed A Country and Its Sounds, by Michael Broyles. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 25, 2024
Brought Forth On This Continent: Abraham Lincoln And American Immigration, by Harold Holzer. The Florida Courier, February 23, 2024
Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words, by Boel Westin. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 19, 2024
“The Veteran ‘Post’ Book Reviewer Shares His Life Story.” The Jerusalem Post, February 18, 2024
Attacking The Elites: What Critics Get Wrong—and Right About America’s Leading Universities, by Derek Bok. Inside Higher Education (co-authored with David Wippman), February 16, 2024
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, The C.I.A., And The Origins Of America’s Invasion Of Iraq, by Steve Coll. The Jerusalem Post, February 5, 2024
Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs, by Benjamin Herold. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 5, 2024
John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community, by Raymond Arsenault. The Florida Courier, January 27, 2024
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point, by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt. The Jerusalem Post, January 27, 2024
They Flew: A History of the Impossible, by Carlos Eire. The Jerusalem Post, January 19, 2024
Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence, by Yaroslav Trofimov. The Jerusalem Post, January 5, 2023
Lifting the Chains: The Black Freedom Struggle Since Reconstruction, by William H. Chafe. The Florida Courier, December 29, 2023
The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street And Shaped Modern America, by Daniel Schulman. The Jerusalem Post, December 16, 2023
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song, by Judith Tick. The Florida Courier, December 15, 2023
American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860, by Edward L. Ayers. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 11, 2023
Never Again: Germans And Genocide After The Holocaust, by Andrew I. Port. The Jerusalem Post, November 17, 2023
The Cost Of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, And An American Inheritance, by Rebecca Clarren. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 12, 2023
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, by Jennifer Burns. The Messenger, November 11, 2023
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondswoman’s Narrative, by Gregg Hecimovich. The Florida Courier, November 10, 2023
How To Know A Person: The Art Of Seeing Others Deeply And Being Deeply Seen, by David Brooks. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 7, 2023
Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East, by Uri Kaufman. The Jerusalem Post, October 28, 2023
Elon Musk, by Walter Isaacson. The Messenger, October 28, 2023
The Synthetic University: How Higher Education Can Benefit From Shared Solutions And Save Itself, by James L. Shulman (co-authored with David Wippman). Inside Higher Ed, October 20, 2023
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, by Robert M. Sapolsky. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 17, 2023
Fields of Play: Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City, by Robert T. Hayashi. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 14, 2023
Let Us Descend: A Novel, by Jesmyn Ward. The Florida Courier, October 13, 2023
The Cancelling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott (co-authored with David Wippman). The Messenger, October 7, 2023
This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity, by Richard Deming. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 3, 2023
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, by Heather Cox Richardson. The Messenger, September 30, 2023
Defer We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America, by Steve Inskeep. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 29, 2023
Before The Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, by Dylan C. Penningroth. The Florida Courier, September 22, 2023
The Fraud: A Novel, by Zadie Smith. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 16, 2023
The Dissident: A Novel, by Paul Goldberg. The Jerusalem Post, September 9, 2023
A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism, by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein. The Messenger, September 2, 2023 (and 2 other media outlets)
The Great White Bard: How To Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race, by Farah Karim-Cooper. The Florida Courier, September 1, 2023
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin and the Miraculous Survival of My Family, by Daniel Finkelstein. The Jerusalem Post, August 26, 2023
Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein and Leah Rothstein. The Florida Courier, August 18, 2023
24/7 Politics: Cable Television & The Fragmenting of America From Watergate to Fox News, by Kathryn Cramer Brownell. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 19, 2023
Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism, by Magda Teter. The Jerusalem Post, August 12, 2023
Religicide: Confronting the Roots of Anti-Religious Violence, by Georgette Bennett and Jerry White. The Jerusalem Post, August 12, 2023
August Wilson: A Life, by Patti Hartigan. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 12, 2023
Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble, by Madeleine Blais. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 10, 2023
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class, by Blair Kelley. The Florida Courier, July 28, 2023
The Country of the Blind, by Andrew Leland. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 23, 2023
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream, by Peter Moore. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 9, 2023
Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being in Person, by Andy Field. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 4, 2023
A Madman’s Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves and the Mirage of Freedom, by Gregory May. The Florida Courier, July 1, 2023
Escape To Aswan: A Novel, by Amal Sedky Winter. The Jerusalem Post, July 1, 2023
Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street, by Jackson Lears. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 24, 2023
Being a NationState in the TwentyFirst Century: Between State and Synagogue in Modern Israel, by Shuki Friedman. The Jerusalem Post, June 3, 2023
Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone, by Amy Key. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 30,2023
The Soldier’s Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II, by David Chrisinger. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 28, 2023
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains The World, by Henry Grabar. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 20, 2023
The Wounded World: W.E.B. DuBois And The First World War, by Chad L. Williams. The Florida Courier, May 19, 2023
King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 12, 2023 (and in 51 other media outlets)
Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods, by Mariana Alessandri. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 9, 2023
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, by Timothy Egan. The Florida Courier, April 28, 2023
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions, by Jonathan Rosen. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 26, 2023
The Point Of No Return: American Democracy at the Crossroads, by Thomas Byrne Edsall. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 16, 2023
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, A Murder, And The Hijacking Of History, by Benjamin Balint. The Jerusalem Post, April 15, 2023
Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco, by Stephan Talty. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 7, 2023 (reprinted in the Miami Herald and 60 other media outlets)
Volodymyr Zelensky In His Own Words, edited and translated by Lisa Rogak and Daisy Gibbons. The Jerusalem Post, April 1, 2023
Skinfolk: A Memoir, by Matthew Pratt Guterl. The Florida Courier, March 24, 2023
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journey Through American Slavery and Independence, by David Waldstreicher. The Florida Courier, March 10, 2023
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Dementia and the Hidden Workings of the Mind, by Dasha Kiper. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 1, 2023
I Am Still With You: A Reckoning With Silence, Inheritance, and History, by Emmanuel Iduma. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 24, 2023
Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings, by Randall Kenan. The Florida Courier, February 10, 2023
Profiles in Peace: Voices of Peacebuilders in the Midst of the IsraeliPalestinian Conflict, by Ron Kronish. The Jerusalem Post, February 3, 2023
ZigZag Boy: A Memory of Madness and Motherhood, by Tanya Frank. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 31, 2023
Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, And The Rise Of An American Dynasty, by Andrew Meier. The Jerusalem Post, January 21, 2023
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction, by Kidada Williams. The Florida Courier, January 20, 2023
Kennan: A Life Between Worlds, by Frank Costigliola. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 20, 2023 (and 53 other media outlets)
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life, by Dacher Keltner. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 3, 2023
The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America, by Philip Bump. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 1, 2023
How To Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times, by Chris Bailey. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 27, 2022
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation 17651795, by Edward J. Larson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 24, 2022
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery In An American Family, by Kerri K. Greenidge. The Florida Courier, December 23, 2022
Hollywood: The Oral History, by Jeannine Basinger and Sam Wasson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 18, 2022
Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him To Freedom, by Andrew Nagorski. The Jerusalem Post, December 17, 2022
The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest 18001900, by Jon Lauck. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 9, 2022 (and 61 other media outlets).
Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad, by Andrew K. Diemer. The Florida Courier, December 3, 2022
War By Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance, by Daniel Akst. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 2, 2022
Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy, by Timothy Shenk. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 20,2022
The Fun Habit: How the Disciplined Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life, by Mike Rucker. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 15, 2022
The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America, by H.W. Brands. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 6, 2022
Looking For An Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism, edited by Jo Glanville. The Jerusalem Post, November 5, 2022
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II At Home And Abroad, by Matthew F. Delmont. The Florida Courier, November 4, 2022
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, by Walter Russell Mead. The Jerusalem Post, October 22, 2022
The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City, by Nicholas Dawidoff. The Florida Courier, October 14, 2022
The Book of Phobias & Manias: A History of Obsession, by Kate Summerscale. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 29, 2022
The Only Woman In The Room: Golda Meir And Her Path To Power, by Pnina Lahav. The Jerusalem Post, September 4, 2022
Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment, by Brad Snyder. The Pittsburg PostGazette, September 5, 2022
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, by Margaret Burnham. The Florida Courier, September 2, 2022
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change, by W. David Marx. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 30, 2022
Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird, by Gene Andrew Jarrett. The Florida Courier, August 12, 2022
Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide: Denial, State Deception, Truth Versus Politicization of History, by Israel W. Charny. The Jerusalem Post, August 6, 2022
Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions, by Batja Mesquita. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 2, 2022
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals, by David Hackett Fischer. The Florida Courier, July 24, 2022
New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State, by William J. Novak. The Pittsburg PostGazette, July 16, 2022
Who Killed Jane Stanford? A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a University, by Richard White. The Pittsburg PostGazette, July 2, 2022
Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 19391945, by Halik Kochanski. The Jerusalem Post, July 1, 2022
A Lynching At Port Jervis: Race And Reckoning In The Gilded Age, by Philip Dray. The Florida Courier, July 1, 2022
Jacob’s Younger Brother: ChristianJewish Relations After Vatican II, by Karma BenJohanan. The Jerusalem Post, June 18, 2022
O Say Can You Hear? A Cultural Biography of The StarSpangled Banner, by Mark Clague. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 17, 2022
The Walls Around Opportunity: The Failure of Colorblind Policy for Higher Education, by Gary Orfield. The Florida Courier, June 11, 2022
The Steal: The Attempt To Overthrow The 2020 Election And The People Who Stopped It, by Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague. The Pittsburg PostGazette, June 4, 2022
Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History, by Timothy Hampton. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 24, 2022
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and The Struggle for Racial Justice, by Robert Samuel and Toluse Olorunnipa. The Florida Courier, May 20, 2022
The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death, by Sam Knight. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 3, 2022
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis De Tocqueville, by Olivier Zunz. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 29, 2022 (and 58 other media outlets)
A Progressive History of American Democracy Since 1945: American Dreams, Hard Realities, by Chris J. Magoc. The Pittsburg PostGazette, April 23, 2022
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure,” by Yascha Mounk. The Florida Courier, April 22, 2022
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest To Cure Mental Illness, by Andrew Scull. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 20, 2022 (designated an “Essential Topic”)
The Wealthy: Chronicle of a Jewish Family (17631948), by Hamutal BarYosef. The Jerusalem Post, April 7, 2022
One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs Of An Attorney General, by William P. Barr. The Pittsburg PostGazette, April 3, 2022
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe, by Keith O’Brien. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 29, 2022
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties, by David De Jong. The Jerusalem Post, March 24, 2022
The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against The Slave Trade, by A.E. Rooks. The Pittsburg PostGazette, March 20, 2022
Smashing Statues: The Rise And Fall Of America’s Public Monuments, by Erin L. Thompson. The Florida Courier, March 19, 2022
The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States, by Brian Hochman. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 8, 2022
Prophets Without Honor: The 2000 Camp David Summit and the End of the TwoState Solution, by Shlomo BenAmi. The Jerusalem Post, March 3, 2022
Europe’s Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp’s Golden Age, by Michael Pye. The Jerusalem Post, February 25, 2022
One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival, by Donald Antrim (in Death and AntiDeath, Volume 19, edited by Charles Tandy, Ria University Press, 2022)
White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White And America’s Darkest Secret, by A.J. Baime. The Florida Courier, February 11, 2022
Doom: The Politics Of Catastrophe, by Niall Ferguson. The Pittsburg PostGazette, February 6, 2022
Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care, by John Abramson. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 1, 2022
American Shtetl: The Making of Kirvas Joel, A Hasidic Village in Upstate New York, by Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers. The Jerusalem Post, January 27, 2022
The Fifties: An Underground History, by James R. Gaines. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 21, 2022
Born In Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War, by Howard W. French. The Florida Courier, January 21, 2022
Grief: A Philosophical Guide, by Michael Cholbi. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 11, 2022
The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 17731783,” by Joseph J. Ellis. The Pittsburg PostGazette, January 11, 2022
The Rage Of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth, by Kristin Henning. The Florida Courier, December 27, 2021
The Transcendentalists And Their World, by Robert A. Gross. The Minneapolis Star Tribune (and 83 other media outlets), December 17, 2021
Colorization: One Hundred Years Of Black Films In A White World, by Wil Haygood. The Florida Courier, December 7, 2021
The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, And The Search For Truth, by Meriel Schindler. The Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2021
A Brave And Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough And The War For America, by James Horn. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 19, 2021 (and 76 media outlets)
The Last King Of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III, by Andrew Roberts. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 12, 2021
American Afterlives: Reinventing Death In The 21st Century, by Shannon Lee Dawdy. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 9, 2021
Vindicating Shakespeare: A Theater Director’s Study of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice, by Stephen Byk. The Jerusalem Post, November 11, 2021
Three Girls From Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir Of Race, Fate, And Sisterhood, by Dawn Turner. The Florida Courier, November 5, 2021
The Shattering: America In The 1960s, by Kevin Boyle. The Minneapolis Star Tribune (and 59 media outlets), October 22, 2021
Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History, And Culture, by Randall Kennedy. The Florida Courier, October 15, 2021
Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical, by Shaul Magid. The Jerusalem Post, October 14, 2021
People Love Dead Jews, by Dara Horn. The Jerusalem Post, October 7, 2021
Squirrel Hill: The Tree Of Life Synagogue Shooting And The Soul Of A Neighborhood, by Mark Oppenheimer. The Pittsburg PostGazette, October 5, 2021
Rationality: What It Is. Why It Seems Scarce. Why It Matters. By Steven Pinker. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 28, 2021
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom Of Black Life And Literature, by Farah Jasmine Griffin. The Florida Courier, September 25, 2021
Survival Of The City: Living And Thriving In A Life Of Isolation, by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 14, 2021
The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always Been Unequal—And How To Set Them Right, by Adam Harris. The Florida Courier, August 28, 2021
Metropolitan Stories: A Novel, by Christine Coulson. The Jerusalem Post, August 26, 2021
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, And The Impeachment Of Andrew Johnson, by Robert S. Levine. The Florida Courier, August 13, 2021
Reign Of Terror: How The 9/11 Era Destabilized America And Produced Trump, by Spencer Ackerman. The Pittsburg PostGazette, August 8, 2021
Public Citizens: The Attack On Big Government And The Remaking Of American Liberalism, by Paul Sabin. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 3, 2021
Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America In Black And White, by Patricia Sullivan. The Florida Courier, July 24, 2021
If Anyone Calls, Tell Them I Died: A Memoir, by Emanuel Rosen. The Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2021
The Free World: Art and Thought In The Cold War, by Louis Menand. The Pittsburg PostGazette, July 20, 2021
When Evil Lived In Laurel: The White Knights And The Murder Of Vernon Dahmer, by Curtis Wilkie. The Florida Courier, July 11, 2021
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter, by Kai Bird. The Pittsburg PostGazette, July 4, 2021
The Plague Year: America In The Time Of COVID, by Lawrence Wright. The Pittsburg PostGazette, June 20, 2021
A Sense Of Self: Memory, The Brain, And Who We Are, by Veronica O’Keane. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 15, 2021
How To Avoid A Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have And The Breakthroughs We Need, by Bill Gates. The Pittsburg PostGazette, June 8, 2021
The Luckiest Guy In The World: My Journey In Politics, by Robert Abrams. The Jerusalem Post, June 3, 2021
Justice Deferred: Race And The Supreme Court, by Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner. The Florida Courier, May 30, 2021
Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, And The New Battleground Of The Cold War, by Jeff Shesol. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 28, 2021 (and also appeared in 74 media outlets, including The Sacramento Bee)
Let’s Talk About Hard Things, by Anna Sale. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 25, 2021
China Vs. Democracy: The Greatest Game: A Handbook For Democracies, by Robin Shepherd. The Jerusalem Post, May 19, 2021
American Republics: A Continental History Of The United States, 17831850, by Alan Taylor. The Pittsburg PostGazette, May 16, 2021
Unexpected Life: A Short History Of Living Longer, by Steven Johnson. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 11, 2021
Traveling Black: A Story Of Race And Resistance, by Mia Bay. The Florida Courier, May 9, 2021 (also published in the Michigan Chronicle, July 1, 2021)
What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract For A Better Society, by Minouche Shafik. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 30, 2021
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson And The Art Of Black Teaching, by Jarvis R. Givens. The Florida Courier, April 18, 2021
Philip Roth: The Biography, by Blake Bailey. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 2, 2021
The Wondering Jew: Israel And The Search For Jewish Identity, by Micah Goodman. The Jerusalem Post, April 1, 2021
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From The Revolution To Reconstruction, by Kate Masure. The Florida Courier, March 28, 2021
Useful Delusions: The Power And Paradox Of The SelfDeceiving Brain, by Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 23, 2021
Songs In Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry Of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine, by Amelia M. Glaser. The Jerusalem Post, March 19, 2021
The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir, by Sherry Turkle. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 9, 2021
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, And The Future Of The Human Race, by Walter Isaacson. The Pittsburg PostGazette, March 7, 2021
Survival On The Margins, by Eliyana Adler. The Jerusalem Post, March 11, 2021
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song, by Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Florida Courier, February 27, 2021
The Rope: A True Story Of Murder, Heroism, And The Dawn Of The NAAP, by Alex Tresniowski. The Florida Courier, February 21, 2021
When Brains Dream: Exploring The Science And Mystery Of Sleep, by Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 16, 2021
This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends: The Cyber Weapons Race, by Nicole Perlroth. The Pittsburg PostGazette, February 7, 2021
American Baby: A Mother, A Baby, And The Shadow History Of Adoption, by Gabrielle Glaser. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 26, 2021
White Freedom: The Racial History Of An Idea, by Tyler Stovall. The Florida Courier, January 24, 2021
Nine Days: The Race To Save Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life And Win The 1960 Election, by Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick. The Pittsburg PostGazette, January 17, 2021
From Babylon to Jerusalem, by Aharon Nathan. The Jerusalem Post, January 14, 2021
Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created The Stigma Of Mental Illness, by Roy Richard Grinker. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 12, 2021
Drives Human Invention, by Simon BaronCohen. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 28, 2020
First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned From The Greeks And Romans And How That Shaped Our Country, by Thomas E. Ricks. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 15, 2020
How To Start A War: How The Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq, by Robert Draper. The Pittsburg PostGazette, November 22, 2020
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science, by Michael Strevens. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 17, 2020
The Dead are Rising: The Life of Malcolm X, by Les Payne and Tamara Payne. The Florida Courier, November 7, 2020
Righteous Kill, by Ted Lapkin. The Jerusalem Post, November 5, 2020
Never Alone: Prison, Politics and My People, by Natan Sharansky. The Jerusalem Post, October 23, 2020
In Deep: The FBI, The CIA, And The Truth About America’s Deep State, by David Rohde. The Pittsburg PostGazette, October 20, 2020
The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, by Robert Reich. The Pittsburg PostGazette (online). October 18, 2020
Hate In The Homeland: The New Global Far Right, by Cynthia MillerIdriss. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 18, 2020 (the review was named an “Essential Topic” and “Essential Home”)
The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and The Struggle for Black Freedom, by Eddie R. Cole. The Florida Courier, October 18, 2020
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life, by Jonathan Alter. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 16, 2020
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and The Power of Hope, by Jon Meacham. The Florida Courier, September 26, 2020
The Man Who Ran Washington, by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 25, 2020
Voice, Choice, and Action: The Potential of Young Citizens To Heal Democracy, by Felton Earls and Mary Carlson. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 15, 2020
The Last Million, by David Nasaw. The Jerusalem Post, September 10, 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. The Florida Courier, September 9, 2020
Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 19761980, by Rick Perlstein. The Pittsburg PostGazette, August 30, 2020
The President Vs. The Press, by Harold Holzer. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 21, 2020
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir, by Natasha Trethewey. The Florida Courier, August 19, 2020
Older and Wiser: New Ideas for Youth Mentoring in the 21st Century. By Jean E. Rhodes. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 18, 2020
Saving Ruby King: A Novel, by Catherine Adel West. The Florida Courier, August 15, 2020.
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close, by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 22, 2020
Make Russia Great Again: A Novel, by Christopher Buckley. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 19, 2020
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. The Florida Courier, July 18, 2020
Promised Land: How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 19291968, by David Stebenne. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 10, 2020
Keep Saying Their Names, by Simon Stranger. The Jerusalem Post, July 10, 2020
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win, by Maria Konnikova. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 30, 2020
True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Spotting Fake News, by Cindy L. Otis. The Jerusalem Post, June 26, 2020
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, by Joshua Bennett. The Florida Courier, June 22, 2020
Grown Ups: A Novel, by Emma Jane Unsworth. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 15, 2020
Money, Blood and Conscience: Love. Terror. The Crime of the Century. A Novel, by David Steinman. The Jerusalem Post, June 12, 2020
The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace, by Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf. The Jerusalem Post, May 29, 2020
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, by Robert Kolker. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 17, 2020
Redhead by the Side of the Road: A Novel, by Anne Tyler. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 14, 2020
Blood Libel: On the Trail of an AntiSemitic Myth, by Magda Teter. The Jerusalem Post, May 8, 2020
The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception, by David Michaels. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 26, 2020
Navigate Your Stars, by Jesmyn Ward. The Florida Courier, April 24, 2020
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life, by John Kaag. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 21, 2020
Einstein in Bohemia, by Michael D. Gordin. The Jerusalem Post, April 17, 2020
The End of October, by Lawrence Wright. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 14, 2020
The Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn’t Work, by Donald F. Kettle. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 5, 2020
Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s FiftyYear Battle for a More Unjust America, by Adam Cohen. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 29, 2020
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife, by Bart D. Ehrman. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 26, 2020
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future, by James Shapiro. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 16, 2020
The Storm Before the Calm: America’s Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond, by George Friedman. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 15, 2020
To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America, by Felicia Angeja Viator. The Florida Courier, March 6, 2020
American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change, by Emily Sigalow. The Jerusalem Post, February 28, 2020
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era, by Jerry Mitchell. The Florida Courier, February 22, 2020
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 31, 2020
Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond, by Lydia Denworth. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 27, 2020 (the review was named an “Essential Topic” and “Essential Home”)
Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About It, by Christopher T. Robertson. The Florida Courier, January 24, 2020
The Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia, by P.E. Caquet. The Jerusalem Post, January 24, 2020
Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ LifeandDeath Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe, by Laurel Leff. The Jerusalem Post, January 17, 2020
The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us, by Paul Tough. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 12, 2020
Prospective Longevity: A New Vision of Population Aging, by Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 7, 2020
Bitter Reckoning: Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators, by Dan Porat. The Jerusalem Post, January 3, 2020
Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone, by Charles Moore. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 29, 2019
Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo, by Alan Dershowitz. The Jerusalem Post, December 13, 2019 (appeared in Beijing News, December 14, 2019)
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present, by Frank M. Snowden. The Florida Courier, December 13, 2019
The Letters of Cole Porter, edited by Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 8, 2019
The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness, by Susannah Cahalan. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 4, 2019
Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream, by Nicholas Lemann. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 24, 2019
Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For, by Susan Rice. The Florida Courier, November 19, 2019
Antisocial: Online Extremists, TechnoUtopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, by Andrew Marantz. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 5, 2019
The Water Dancer: A Novel, by TaNehisi Coates. The Florida Courier, October 27, 2019
Thomas Jefferson’s Education, by Alan Taylor. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 17, 2019
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth, by Rachel Maddow. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, October 13, 2019
Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being, by Agustín Fuentes. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 8, 2019
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, by Christopher Leonard. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, October 6, 2019
The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America, by Nicholas Buccola. The Florida Courier, October 4, 2019
The Nickel Boys: A Novel, by Colson Whitehead. The Florida Courier, September 20, 2019
Talk Radio’s America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States, by Brian Rosenwald. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 15, 2019
The Last Train to London: A Novel, by Meg Waite Clayton. The Jerusalem Post, September 12, 2019
Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America, by Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 26, 2019
Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 18401917, by Dale Cockrell. The Florida Courier, August 23, 2019
Barnum: An American Life, by Robert Wilson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 18, 2019
The Assault on American Excellence, by Anthony Kronman. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 15, 2019
Lincoln’s Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation, by Douglas Waller. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 11, 2019
The Song of the Jade Lily: A Novel, by Kirsty Manning. The Jerusalem Post, July 30, 2019
Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary, by John Clubbe. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 28, 2019
The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s TenYear Road Trip, by Jeff Guinn. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 28, 2019
The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America’s First Black Sports Hero, by Michael Kranish. The Florida Courier, July 19, 2019
The Art of Inventing Hope: Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel, by Howard Reich. The Jerusalem Post, July 14, 2019
If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years, by Christopher Benfey. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 7, 2019
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, by Clive Thompson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 25, 2019
The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction, by Daniel Brook. The Florida Courier, June 21, 2019
Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth, by Jodi Magness. The Jerusalem Post, June 7, 2019
Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition, by Patricia S. Churchland. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 4, 2019
The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation, by Brenda Wineapple. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 26, 2019
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide, by Tony Horwitz. The Florida Courier, May 24, 2019
The Heartland: An American History, by Kristin L. Hoganson. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 17, 2019
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, by Anthony Abraham Jack. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 12, 2019
A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father, by David Maraniss. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 9, 2019
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, by David McCullough. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 5, 2019
Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America, by Matthew FoxAmato. The Florida Courier, May 1, 2019
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11, by Mitchell Zuckoff. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 28, 2019
The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality, by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 14, 2019
Blood in the Water: How the US and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty, by Joan Mellen. The Jerusalem Post, April 12, 2019
The Power of Cute, by Simon May. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 9, 2019
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Florida Courier, April 3, 2019
The Lion’s Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky, by Susie Linfield. The Forward, March 31, 2019
Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer? And Other Essays, by Adam Kirsch. The Jerusalem Post, March 29, 2019
Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason, by Justin E. Smith. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 26, 2019
The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, by Andrew McCabe. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 24, 2019
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, by Jennifer L. Eberhardt. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 19, 2019
Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodward and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring, by Richard Gergel. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 17, 2019
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation, by Steve Luxenberg. The Florida Courier, February 15, 2019
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, by Stephanie E. JonesRogers. The Florida Courier, February 8, 2019
American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology, by D.W. Pasulka. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 5, 2019
Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn’t, by Edward Humes. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 3, 2019
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts, by Jill Abramson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 1, 2019
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us, by Joseph J. Ellis. The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 20, 2019
The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World, by Robert Mnookin. The Jerusalem Post, January 11, 2019
Button Man: A Novel, by Andrew Gross. The Jerusalem Post, January 4, 2019
The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today, by Jack Wertheimer. The Forward, December 31, 2018
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 19451975, by Max Hastings. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 28, 2018
Becoming, by Michelle Obama. The Florida Courier, December 14, 2018
As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon, by Daniel T. Rodgers. The Florida Courier, December 14, 2018
Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo, by Seth Anziska; Catch67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the SixDay War, by Micah Goodman. The Forward, December 14, 2018
Churchill: Walking with Destiny, by Andrew Roberts. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 11, 2018
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, by Andrew Delbanco. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 7, 2018
The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies, by Dawn Raffel. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 7, 2018
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts, by Chris McGreal. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 7, 2018
The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s SingleMinded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, by Deborah Blum. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 25, 2018
House of Gold: A Novel, by Natasha Solomons. The Jerusalem Post, November 23, 2018
Help! The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration, by Thomas Brothers. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 16, 2018
On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News, by Matthew Pressman. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 13, 2018
The Fifth Risk, by Michael Lewis. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 11, 2018
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life, by Jane Sherron De Hart. The Jerusalem Post, November 9, 2018
Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, by H.W. Brands. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 9, 2018
Wanamaker’s Temple: The Business of Religion in an Iconic Department Store, by Nicole C. Kirk. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 4, 2018
Behold, America: The Entangled History of ‘America First’ and ‘The American Dream,’ by Sarah Churchwell. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 4, 2018
The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End, by Gary M. Pomerantz. The Florida Courier, November 2, 2018
The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy, by Greg Miller. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, October 21, 2018
Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan. The Florida Courier, October 19, 2018
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice, by Mary Fulbrook. The Jerusalem Post, October 19, 2018
Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance, by Amy Kaplan. The Jerusalem Post, October 12, 2018
Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times, by Mark Leibovich. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 12, 2018
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger, by Rebecca Traister. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 12, 2018
These Truths: A History of the United States, by Jill Lepore. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 28, 2018
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 28, 2018
Empathy: A History, by Susan Lanzoni. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 20, 2018
Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 17, 2018
Consent on Campus: A Manifesto, by Donna Freitas. Tulsa World, September 16, 2018
Leadership in Turbulent Times, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 14, 2018
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, by Eli Saslow. The Florida Courier, September 14, 2018
Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity, by Theodore M. Porter. The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 2, 2018
The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became An American Religion, by Steven R. Weisman. The Jerusalem Post, August 31, 2018
The Politics of Autism, by Bryna Siegel. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 28, 2018
The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy, by Jay Cost. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 26, 2018
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America, by Alissa Quart. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 17, 2018
Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard, by Paul Collins. The San Francisco Chronicle, August 16, 2018
The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy, by Michael G. Hanchard. The Florida Courier, August 10, 2018
The Last Utopians: Four Late 19th Century Visionaries and Their Legacy, by Michael Robertson. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 5, 2018
Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil War, by Christopher Grasso. Tulsa World, August 5, 2018
The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983, by Marc Ambinder. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 5, 2018
Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy, by Katherine BentonCohen; America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census, by Joel Perlmann. The Forward, July 15, 2018
The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics, by Dan Kaufman. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 2018
The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine & Spain 19221923, by Ze’ev Rosenkranz, Editor. The Jerusalem Post, July 13, 2018
Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything, by Randi Hutter Epstein. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 12, 2018
Energy: A Human History, by Richard Rhodes. Tulsa World, July 8, 2018
Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech, by Keith E. Whittington. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 8, 2018
Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century, by Konrad H. Jarausch. The Jerusalem Post, July 6, 2018
Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else), by Ken Auletta. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 1, 2018
Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century, by James Loeffler. The Forward, June 29, 2018
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, by Meredith Broussard. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 28, 2018
Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics, by Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen. The Florida Courier, June 22, 2018
Demographic Angst: Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s, by Alan Nadel. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 15, 2018
Our Minds, Ourselves: A Brief History of Psychology, by Keith Oatley. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 11, 2018
Idleness: A Philosophical Essay, by Brian O’Connor. Tulsa World, June 3, 2018
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America’s Schools, by Rachel Devlin. The Florida Courier, May 25, 2018
Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West, by James Pogue. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 25, 2018
Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why, by Dean Burnett. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 21, 2018
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, by Stephen Greenblatt. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 18, 2081
In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea, by Michael Brenner. The Jerusalem Post, May 11, 2018
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, by Jordan B. Peterson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 6, 2018
Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu, by Anshel Pfeffer. The Jerusalem Post, May 4, 2018
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State, by Lawrence Wright. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 26, 2018
Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America, by Cass R. Sunstein, Editor. The Florida Courier, April 20, 2018
How to Raise Kind Kids: And Get Respect, Gratitude, and a Happier Family in the Bargain. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 17, 2018 (the review was named an “Essential Topic”)
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution, by Priya Satia. The San Francisco Chronicle, April 12, 2018
On Grand Strategy, by John Lewis Gaddis. Tulsa World, April 8, 2018
The Chateau, by Paul Goldberg. The Jerusalem Post, April 6, 2018
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic, by David Frum. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 30, 2018
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, by Adam Winkler. The San Francisco Chronicle, March 28, 2018
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, by Nassim Nichola Taleb. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 26, 2018
Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968, by Ryan H. Walsh. Tulsa World, March 18, 2018
The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll, by Randall J. Stephens. The Florida Courier, March 16, 2018
Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion, by Steve Fraser. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 16, 2018
A History of Judaism, by Martin Goodman. The Jerusalem Post, March 9, 2018
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations, by Amy Chua. Psychology Today, (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 8, 2018
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 18001906, by David Cannadine. Tulsa World, February 25, 2018
The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money, by Bryan Caplan. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 20, 2018
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, by Steven Pinker. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 29, 2018
The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook, by Niall Ferguson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 11, 2018
Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, by Omer Bartov. The Jerusalem Post, February 9, 2018
Julius Rosenwald: Repairing the World, by Hasia R. Diner. The Forward, January 29, 2018
Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court, by Paul Finkelman. The Florida Courier, January 26, 2018
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon, and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD, by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 26, 2018
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, by Daniel H. Pink. The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 14, 2018
It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America, by David Cay Johnson. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 11, 2018
Great at Work: How Top Performers Work Less and Achieve More, by Morten Hansen. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 9, 2018
Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House, by Joshua Zeitz. Tulsa World, January 7, 2018
AlleyOop to Aliyah: African American Hoopsters in the Holy Land, by David A. Goldstein. The Jerusalem Post, January 5, 2018
It’s All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree, by A.J. Jacobs. The Jerusalem Post, December 22, 2017
The Gifted Generation: When Government Was Good, by David Goldfield. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 22, 2017
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, by Maya Jasanoff. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 21, 2017
The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battling Creek, by Howard Markel. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 20, 2017
Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy, by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 19, 2017
A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species, by Robert Boyd. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 14, 2017 (the review was named an “Essential Topic”)
The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of An Early American Crisis, by James E. Lewis, Jr. Tulsa World, December 10, 2017
Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby, by Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 10, 2017
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History, by Jeremy Dauber. The Jerusalem Post, December 8, 2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel, by Jesmyn Ward. The Florida Courier, December 1, 2017
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, by Daniel Ellsberg. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 1, 2017
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, by Stephen Greenblatt. The Jerusalem Post, December 1, 2017
Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Everyone), by Devorah Baum. The Jerusalem Post, November 24, 2017
Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age, by Susan Landau. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, November 22, 2017
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, by TaNehisi Coates. The Florida Courier, November 17, 2017
When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency, by Bernardo Zacka. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 15, 2017
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition, by Linda Gordon. Tulsa World, November 12, 2017
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, by Anne Applebaum. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 12, 2017
Who Will Lead Us? The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America, by Samuel C. Heilman. The Jerusalem Post, November 3, 2017
Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson. Tulsa World, October 29, 2017
Lou Reed: A Life, by Anthony DeCurtis. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 29, 2017
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, by Gordon S. Wood. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 27, 2017
The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics, by Mark Lilla. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 24, 2017
Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism, by Eric Lott. The Florida Courier, October 20, 2017
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, by Kieran Setiya. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 17, 2017
The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges, by Derek Bok. Tulsa World, October 9, 2017
Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory, by Michael Korda. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 1, 2017
What Happened, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 29, 2017
Forest Dark: A Novel, by Nicole Krauss. The Jerusalem Post, September 29, 2017
Free Speech on Campus, by Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 25, 2017
The Origin of Others, by Toni Morrison. The Florida Courier, September 22, 2017
Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence, by Rachel Sherman. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 11, 2017 (the review was named an “Essential Topic”)
At the Strangers’ Gate: Arrivals in New York, by Adam Gopnik. Tulsa World, September 10, 2017
A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr., by Alvin Felzenberg. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 27, 2017
The 7 Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice, by Chris Chambers. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 23, 2017 (the review was named an “Essential Topic” and “Essential Home”)
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, by Eddie Izzard. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 20, 2017
Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom, by Condoleezza Rice. The Florida Courier, August 18, 2017
The Federal Judiciary: Strength and Weaknesses, by Richard A. Posner. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, August 15, 2017
The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace, by Alexander Klimburg. Tulsa World, August 13, 2017
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road, by Nick Bilton. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 30, 2017
Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler, by Bruce Henderson. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 28, 2017
The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age, by Steven Weitzman. The Jerusalem Post, July 28, 2017
The Weight of Ink: A Novel, by Rachel Kadish. The Jerusalem Post, July 21, 2017
The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State, by Yascha Mounk. The Florida Courier, July 21, 2017
Popular: The Power of Likability in a StatusObsessed World, by Mitch Prinstein. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 12, 2017
Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, by David S. Brown. Tulsa World, July 2, 2017
Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn From the Humanities, by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 27, 2017
Pioneers: The First Breach, by S. Ansky. The Jerusalem Post, June 23, 2017
Raven Rock: The Story of the U. S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself – While the Rest of Us Die, by Garrett M. Graff. The Florida Courier, June 16, 2017
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, by David J. Garrow. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 11, 2017
Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam, by Mark Bowden. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 9, 2017
The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age, by David Callahan. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 4, 2017
The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine, by Nathan Thrall. The Jerusalem Post, June 2, 2017
The Corruption Cure: How Citizens & Leaders Can Combat Graft, by Robert I. Rotberg. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 30, 2017
Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom, by Thomas E. Ricks. The San Francisco Chronicle, May 25, 2017
Janesville: An American Story, by Amy Goldstein. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 21, 2017
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, by Robert M. Sapolsky. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 17, 2017 (the review was named an “Essential Topic” and “Essential Home”)
Blue on Blue: An Insider’s Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops, by Charles Campisi. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 12 2017
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters, by Tom Nichols. The Florida Courier, May 12, 2017
Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth, by Holger Hoock. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 7, 2017
Red Shoes for Rachel: Three Novellas, by Boris Sandler. The Jerusalem Post, May 5, 2017
The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power, by Joseph Turow. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 4, 2017
Richard Nixon: The Life, by John A. Farrell. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 30, 2017
Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust, by Evgeny Finkel. The Jerusalem Post, April 28, 2017
The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America’s Courtrooms, by Kevin Davis. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 26, 2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann. Tulsa World, April 23, 2017
Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman. The Jerusalem Post, April 14, 2017
One Nation Undecided: Clear Thinking about Five Hard Issues That Divide Us, by Peter H. Schuck. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 13, 2017
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple, by Jeff Guinn. The Florida Courier, April 7, 2017
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America, by Frances FitzGerald. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 2, 2017
Superfandom: How Our Obsessions are Changing What We Buy and Who We Are, by Zoe FraadeBlanar and Aaron M. Glazer. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 30, 2017
#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Ae of Social Media, by Cass R. Sunstein. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 26, 2017
On Betrayal, by Avishai Margalit. The Jerusalem Post, March 24, 2017
Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower’s Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy, by David A. Nichols. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, March 20, 2017
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, by Adam Alter. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 16, 2017
Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II, by Ray Moseley. Tulsa World, March 12, 2017
The Blood of Emmett Till, by Timothy B. Tyson. The Florida Courier, March 10, 2017
A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland, by Sydney Nathans. The Florida Courier, March 3, 2017
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the TwentyFirst Century. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, March 1, 2017
Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff, by Edward J. Balleisen. Tulsa World, February 26, 2017
The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance, by Anders Lydell. The Jerusalem Post, February 24, 2017
Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction, by Derek Thompson. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 21, 2017
Democracy: A Case Study, by David A. Moss. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 9, 2017
Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons, by Elizabeth Brown Pryor. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 3, 2017
The Original Black Elite, by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 30, 2017
True South: Henry Hampton and Eyes on the Prize, the Landmark Television Series that Reframed the Civil Rights Movement, by Jon Else. The Florida Courier, January 27, 2017
Montaigne: A Life, by Philippe Desan. Tulsa World, January 22, 2017
AntiJudaism, Antisemitism, and Delegitimizing Israel, by Robert Wistrich, Editor. The Jerusalem Post, January 20, 2017
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds, by Michael Lewis. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 15, 2017
Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable, by Erwin Chemerinsky. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 10, 2017
Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, by Jonathan Lear. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 10, 2017
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition, by Ruth von Bernuth. The Jerusalem Post, December 30, 2016
The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community, by Jeffrey Gurock. The Jerusalem Post, December 23, 2016
Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment, by Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 20, 2016
Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend, by Deirdre Bair. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 18, 2016
The War of the Roosevelts: The Ruthless Rise of America’s Greatest Political Family, by William J. Mann. Tulsa World, December 18, 2016
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West, by Peter Cozzens. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 18, 2016
City of Dreams: The 400Year history of Immigrant New York, by Tyler Anbinder. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 18, 2016
The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel, by Steven Fine. The Jerusalem Post, December 16, 2016
Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It, by Larrie D. Ferreiro. Tulsa World, December 4, 2016
Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities, by Rogers Brubaker. The Florida Courier, November 25, 2016
A Nation Without Borders: The United States and its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 18301910, by Steven Hahn. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 25, 2016
Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds, by Leo Braudy. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 22, 2016
The Tragedy of U. S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest, by Walter A. McDougall. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, November 14, 2016
The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, by David Bianculli. Tulsa World, November 13, 2016
Freud: In His Time and Ours, by Élisabeth Roudinesco. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 3, 2016
Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation, by Leigh Eric Schmidt. Tulsa World, October 30, 2016
Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran. The Jerusalem Post, October 28, 2016
Who Owns the Dead?: The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero, by Jay D. Aronson. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 21, 2016
Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism, by James T. Hamilton. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 18, 2016
A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression, by Andrew Coe and Jane Ziegelman. Tulsa World, October 16, 2016
Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel, by David Leach. The Jerusalem Post, October 14, 2016
Life & Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations Between Them, by Tim Parks. Tulsa World, October 9, 2016
Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination, by Jack Hamilton. The Florida Courier, October 7, 2016
Impact: How Law Affects Behavior, by Lawrence M. Friedman. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 6, 2016 (the review was named an “Essential Topic”)
The Winchester: The Gun That Built an American Dynasty, by Laura Trevelyan. Tulsa World, October 2, 2016
Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton, by Joe Conason. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 25, 2016
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 2: 19201928, by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson, Robert Bernard Hass, and Henry Atmore, Editors. The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 25, 2016
The Iran Wars: Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals that Reshaped the Middle East, by Jay Solomon. The Jerusalem Post, September 23, 2016
The Boys of Dunbar: A Story of Love, Hope, and Basketball, by Alejandro Danois. The Florida Courier, September 23, 2016
How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals About Male Health and Mortality, by Richard G. Bribiescas. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 20, 2016
The Market as God, by Harvey Cox. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 6, 2016
The Secret Book of Kings: A Novel, by Yochi Brandes. The Jerusalem Post, September 2, 2016
The Underground Railroad: A Novel, by Colson Whitehead. The Florida Courier, August 26, 2016
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon, by Rosa Brooks. The San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2016
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything, by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. Tulsa World, August 21, 2016
Operation Agreement: Jewish Commandos and the Raid on Tobruk, by John Sadler. The Jerusalem Post, August 19, 2016
The Consolations of Mortality: Making Sense of Death, by Andrew Stark. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 16, 2016 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, by Jesmyn Ward, Editor. The Florida Courier, August 12, 2016
How the Post Office Created America, by Winifred Gallagher. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 12, 2016
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst, by Jeffrey Toobin. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 5, 2016
The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child, by Paula S. Fass. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 5, 2016
Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America, by James E. Campbell. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, August 4, 2016
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond, by Marc Lamont Hill. The Florida Courier, July 29, 2016
After OneHundredandTwenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition, by Hillel Halkin. The Jerusalem Post, July 29, 2016
The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works, by David Crystal. Tulsa World, July 17, 2016
Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America, by Nancy Rosenblum. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 12, 2016
Battle for BedStuy: The Long War on Poverty in New York City, by Michael Woodsworth. The Florida Courier, July 8, 2016
The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right, by Michael J. Graetz and Linda Greenhouse. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 7, 2016
Bush, by Jean Edward Smith. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 7, 2016
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon, by Larry Tye. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 3, 2016
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government, by Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels. Tulsa World, June 19, 2016
What is Modern Israel?, by Yakov M. Rabkin. The Jerusalem Post, June 17, 2016
The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction, by Henry T. Greely. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 7, 2016
American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 5, 2016
Education and the Commercial Mindset, by Samuel E. Abrams. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 2, 2016
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America, by Elizabeth Hinton. The Florida Courier, May 27, 2016
The Statesman and the Storyteller, by Mark Zwonitzer. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 24, 2016
Paul McCartney: A Life, by Philip Norman. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 22, 2016
New York’s Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway, by Edna Nahshon, Editor. The Jerusalem Post, May 20, 2016
American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division, by Michael A. Cohen. Tulsa World, May 15, 2016
Lesson Plan: An Agenda for Change in American Higher Education, by William G. Bowen and Michael S. McPherson. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 12, 2016
Finding Time: The Economics of WorkLife Conflict, by Heather Boushey. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 10, 2016
The Nazi Hunters, by Andrew Nagorski. The Jerusalem Post, May 6, 2016
There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow, by Jeffrey J. Selingo. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 26, 2016
The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible, by Chanan Tigay. The Jerusalem Post, April 22, 2016
Glory Over Everything: Beyond the Kitchen House, by Kathleen Grissom. The Florida Courier, April 22, 2016
Grief Is a Journey: Finding Your Path Through Loss, by Dr. Kenneth J. Doka. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 20, 2016 (the review was published again on July 8 and featured on the homepage under the title The Journey of Grief)
Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive RoundTheWorld Comedy Tour, by Richard Zacks. The San Francisco Chronicle, April 19, 2016
KuKlux: The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction, by Elaine Frantz Parsons. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 17, 2016
Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel, by Dov Waxman. The Jerusalem Post, April 15, 2016
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, by Adam Hochschild. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 14, 2016
On Being Human: Why Mind Matters, by Jerome Kagan. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 22, 2016 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man’s Descent into Madness, by Eli Sanders. Tulsa World, March 20, 2016
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck, by Adam Cohen. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 20, 2016
I Will Find You, by Joanna Connors. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 18, 2016
The Banjo: America’s African Instrument, by Laurent Dubois. The Florida Courier, March 18, 2016
Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government, by Gary Gerstle. Tulsa World, March 13, 2016
Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice, by Nikhil Goyal. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 11, 2016
The Finest Traditions of My Calling: One Physician’s Search for the Renewal of Medicine, by Abraham M. Nussbaum, M.D. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 11, 2016
Wisdom’s Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University, by James Axtell. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, March 8, 2016
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America’s Founding Father, by George Goodwin. Tulsa World, February 28, 2016
How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network, by Shane Greenstein. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 21, 2016
The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition, by Manisha Sinha. The Florida Courier, February 12, 2016
The Yid: A Novel, by Paul Goldberg. The Jerusalem Post, February 12, 2016
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, by Jane Mayer. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 7, 2016
When Your Child Hurts: Effective Strategies to Increase Comfort, Reduce Stress, and Break the Cycle of Chronic Pain, by Rachael Coakley. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 5, 2016
The New Deal: A Global History, by Kiran Klaus Patel. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 3, 2016
Living on Paper: Letters from Irish Murdoch, 19341995, edited by Avril Horner and Anne Rowe. The San Francisco Chronicle, January 29, 2016
Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives, by David M. Levy. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 20, 2016 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
Soldiers on the Home Front: The Domestic Role of the American Military, by William C. Banks and Stephen Dycus. Tulsa World, January 17, 2016
Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond, by E. J. Dionne, Jr. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 17, 2016
The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial, by Lawrence Douglas. The Jerusalem Post, January 15, 2016
Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary, by Richard A. Posner. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 14, 2016
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America, by Wil Hayood. The Florida Courier, January 8, 2016
Return to Casablanca: Jews, Muslims, and an Israeli Anthropologist, by André Levy. The Jerusalem Post, January 8, 2016
The Confidence Game: Why We Fall For It…Every Time, by Maria Konnikova. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 5, 2016 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections, by Richard L. Hasen. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 5, 2016
Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America, by Michael A. McDonnell. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 23, 2015
Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age, by Bernard E. Harcourt. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 17, 2015
Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing, by Joe Domanick. Tulsa World, December 13, 2015
America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk, by Megan Pugh. The Florida Courier, December 11, 2015
Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, by Shane O’Mara. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 9, 2015 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
Paris at War: 19391944, by David Drake. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 22, 2015
Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation & Deception, by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller. Tulsa World, November 22, 2015
Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story, by David Maraniss. The Florida Courier, November 20, 2015
Hamburgers in Paradise: The Stories Behind the Food We Eat, by Louise O. Fresco. The Portland Oregonian, November 19, 2015
The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball, by Charles Fountain. Tulsa World, November 15, 2015
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter, by Joseph Henrich. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 12, 2015 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History, by Jay Winik. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 8, 2015
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, by Dan Ephron. The Jerusalem Post, November 6, 2015
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin, by Steven Lee Myers. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 1, 2015
Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 3, edited by Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 30, 2015
Hitler at Home, by Despina Stratigakos. The Jerusalem Post, October 30, 2015
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War, by Susan Southard. Tulsa World, October 25, 2015
Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws, and the Politics of Punishment, by Michael Javen Fortner. The Florida Courier, October 23, 2015
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains, by Thomas W. Laqueur. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 21, 2015
Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal, by Jay Parini. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 18, 2015
The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government, by David Talbot. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 16, 2015
Kissinger: The Idealist, 19231968, by Niall Ferguson. The PittsburghPost Gazette, October 11, 2015
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 6, 2015
Black Flags: The Rise of Isis, by Joby Warrick. The San Francisco Chronicle, September 24, 2015
The Making of Asian America: A History, by Erika Lee. The Portland Oregonian, September 22, 2015
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices and the Overpowering Urge to Help, by Larissa MacFarquhar. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 16, 2015 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times, by Anne C. Heller. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 13, 2015
Between the World and Me, by TaNehisi Coates. The Florida Courier, September 11, 2015
The Israeli Mind: How the Israeli National Character Shapes Our World, by Alon Gratch. The Jerusalem Post, September 11, 2015
The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 19451975, by Michael Schudson. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 9, 2015
The Debate Over Jewish Achievement: Exploring the Nature and Nurture of Human Accomplishment, by Steven L. Pease. The Jerusalem Post, August 21, 2015
Upside: The New Science of PostTraumatic Growth, by Jim Rendon. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 14, 2015
Just Married: SameSex Couples, Monogamy & the Future of Marriage, by Stephen Macedo. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, August 13, 2015
Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century, by Andrew Wender Cohen. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 11, 2015
American Railroads: Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century, by Robert E. Gallamore and John R. Meyer. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 9, 2015
Touché: The Duel in Literature, by John Leigh. Tulsa World, August 9, 2015
Katrina: After the Flood, by Gary Rivlin. The Florida Courier, August 7, 2015
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety, by Jimmy Carter. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 26, 2015
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab, by Steve Inskeep. Tulsa World, July 26, 2015
The Heart of the Order: A Novel, by Theo SchellLambert. Tulsa World, July 19, 2015
Hotel Moscow: A Novel, by Talia Carner. The Jerusalem Post, July 17, 2015
The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics, by Barton Swaim. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 15, 2015
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey, by Rinker Buck. The Portland Oregonian, July 12, 2015
Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita, by Robert Roper. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 12, 2015
Citizen Swain: Tales from a Minnesota Life, by Tom H. Swain. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 8, 2015
Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety, by Joseph LeDoux. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 7, 2015
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the MilitaryIndustrial Complex, by Michael Hiltzik. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 4, 2015
Mislaid, by Nell Zink. The Florida Courier, July 3, 2015
Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva, by Rosemary Sullivan. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 2, 2015
Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword, by David K. Shipler. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 28, 2015
The ArabIsraeli Conflict in American Political Culture, by Jonathan Rynhold. The Jerusalem Post, June 26, 2015
The Meursault Investigation: A Novel, by Kamel Daoud. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 21, 2015
The Book of Aron: A Novel, by Jim Shepard. The Jerusalem Post, June 19, 2015
The Little Big Number: How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do About It, by Dirk Philipsen. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 16, 2015
The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough. The Portland Oregonian, June 10, 2015
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 17831789, by Joseph J. Ellis. Tulsa World, June 7, 2015
Madness in Civilization: From the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine, by Andrew Scull. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 2, 2015
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony, by Nelson Denis. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 1, 2015
Ordinary Light: A Memoir, by Tracy K. Smith. The Florida Courier, May 29, 2015
Reagan: The Life, by H. W. Brands. The San Francisco Chronicle, May 20, 2015
Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington 18481868, by Cokie Roberts. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 24, 2015
Inequality: What Can Be Done?, by Anthony B. Atkinson. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 7, 2015
When Parents Part: How Mothers and Fathers Can Help Their Children Deal with Separation and Divorce, by Penelope Leach. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 7, 2015 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
The Spy’s Son: The True Story of the HighestRanking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained to Spy for Russia,” by Bryan Denson. The Portland Oregonian, May 6, 2015
The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath, by Dan Stone. The Jerusalem Post, May 1, 2015
The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams, by Phyllis Lee Levin. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 27, 2015
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, by Robert D. Putnam. Tulsa World, April 26, 2015
Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II, by Richard Reeves. The San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 2015
God Help the Child: A Novel, by Toni Morrison. The Florida Courier, April 24, 2015
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry, by Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 21, 2015 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically, by Peter Singer. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 29, 2015
InYourFace Politics: The Consequences of Uncivil Media, by Diana C. Mutz. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 8, 2015
Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership, by Susan Butler. The Portland Oregonian, April 8, 2015
Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made, by Richard Rhodes. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 29, 2015
Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, & American Cultural Diplomacy, by Gren Barnhisel. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 29, 2015
Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women, by Sarah Helm. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 29, 2015
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson. Tulsa World, March 22, 2015
Too Hot To Handle: A Global History of Sex Education, by Jonathan Zimmerman. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, March 18, 2015
Curiosity, by Alberto Manguel. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 17, 2015
The Sacrifice: A Novel, by Joyce Carol Oates. The Florida Courier, March 13, 2015
Russian Tattoo: A Memoir, by Elena Gorokhova. The Jerusalem Post, March 13, 2015
Sometimes an Art: Nine Essays on History, by Bernard Bailyn. Tulsa World, March 1, 2015
Jewish Mad Men: Advertising and the Design of the American Jewish Experience, by Kerri P. Steinberg. The Jerusalem Post, February 27, 2015
The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood, by Susan Engel. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 26, 2015
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, by Eric Foner. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 22, 2015
One Nation, Under Gods: A New American History, by Peter Manseau. The San Francisco Chronicle, February 19, 2015
Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education, by William G. Bowen and Eugene M. Tobin. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 19, 2015
In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China, by Michael Meyer. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 15, 2015
A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 15, 2015
Mourning Lincoln, by Martha Hodes. The Florida Courier, February 13, 2015
The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire, by Adam D. Mendelsohn. The Jerusalem Post, February 13, 2015
F. B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature, by William J. Maxwell. The San Francisco Chronicle, February 5, 2015
Empire of Cotton: A Global History, by Sven Beckert. Tulsa World, January 25, 2015
The Killing Compartments: The Mentality of Mass Murder, by Abram De Swaan. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 21, 2015
The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society, by Julian E. Zelizer. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 18, 2015
The Devil Wins: A History of Lying From the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment, by Dallas G. Denery II. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 14, 2015 (the review was named an “Essential Read in Ethics and Morality”)
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief, by James M. McPherson. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 6, 2015
Christendom Destroyed: Europe 15171648, by Mark Greengrass. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 28, 2014
The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth, edited by Orlando Patterson with Ethan Fosse. The Florida Courier, December 26, 2014
Walter Lippmann: Public Economist, by Craufurd D. Goodwin. The Portland Oregonian, December 23, 2014
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, by Kai Bird. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 23, 2014
Jealousy, by Peter Toohey. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 23, 2014 (the review was named an “Essential Read”)
American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street, by Paula Rabinowitz. Tulsa World, December 14, 2014
Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way, by Hasia R. Diner. The Jerusalem Post, December 12, 2014
William Wells Brown: An African American Life, by Ezra Greenspan. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 10, 2014
Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics, by Marie Gottschalk. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 9, 2014
The Secret History of Wonder Woman, by Jill Lepore. The Portland Oregonian, December 9, 2014
Fire Shut Up In My Bones: A Memoir, by Charles M. Blow. The Florida Courier, December 5, 2014
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson, by S. C. Gwynne. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 2, 2014
Divine Fury: A History of Genius, by Darrin McMahon. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 23, 2014
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 19161931, by Adam Tooze. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 22, 2014
Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America’s Civil Rights Murders, by Renee Romano. The Florida Courier, November 21, 2014
The Rainborowes: One Family’s Quest to Build a New England,” by Adrian Tinniswood. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 16, 2014
The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How SelfInterest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won’t Admit It, by Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, November 12, 2014
The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington, by Gregg Herken. The Portland Oregonian, November 10, 2014
Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left, by Mark C. Taylor. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 10, 2014 (the review was named an “Essential Read in Behavioral Economics”)
When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys, by Thomas Maier. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 9, 2014
America’s Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation, by Grant Wacker. The Portland Oregonian, November 4, 2014
More Awesome Than Money: Four Boys and Their Heroic Quest to Save Your Privacy from Facebook, by Jim Dwyer. Tulsa World, November 2, 2014
The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea, by Robert Wald Sussman. The Florida Courier, October 31, 2014
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy, by Francis Fukuyama. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 29, 2014
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name – One White, One Black, by Chris Tomlinson. Tulsa World, October 26, 2014
Hard Choices, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, October 26, 2014
Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician, by Allen Shawn. The Jerusalem Post, October 24, 2014
The Return of George Washington: 17831789, by Edward J. Larson. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 19, 2014
Cowardice: A Brief History, by Chris Walsh. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 14, 2014
Leningrad: Siege and Symphony, by Brian Moynahan. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 12, 2014
The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of TransAtlantic Battle, by Peter Baldwin. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 8, 2014
The Innovators: How A Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created The Digital Revolution, by Walter Isaacson. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 1, 2014
All the Truth Is Out: The Fall of Gary Hart and the Rise of Tabloid Politics, by Matt Bai. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 28, 2014
Cosby: His Life and Times, by Mark Whitaker. The Florida Courier, September 26, 2014
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi, by Mitchell Zuckoff with the Annex Security Team. The Boston Globe, September 25, 2014
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David, by Lawrence Wright. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 14, 2014
Israel: Is It Good For The Jews?, by Richard Cohen. The Jerusalem Post, September 12, 2014
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran, by Ramita Navai. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 7, 2014
The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs, by Greil Marcus. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 2, 2014
Alien Landscapes? Interpreting Disordered Minds, by Jonathan Glover. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 2, 2014
Debbie Doesn’t Do It Anymore: A Novel, by Walter Mosley. The Florida Courier, August 29, 2014
Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom, by Lewis Buzbee. The San Francisco Chronicle, August 20, 2014
We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel, by Matthew Thomas. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 12, 2014
The Second Amendment: A Biography, by Michael Waldman. Tulsa World, August 10, 2014
Rough Country: How Texas Became America’s Most Powerful BibleBelt State, by Robert Wuthnow. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, August 4, 2014
Back Channel: A Novel, by Stephen L. Carter. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 3, 2014
The Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia 18802012, by Martin Kilson. The Florida Courier, August 1, 2014
Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes, by John Rosengren. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 27, 2014
American Innovations: Stories, by Rivka Galchen. The Jerusalem Post, July 25, 2014
The Second Arab Awakening and the Battle for Pluralism, by Marwan Muasher. The Jerusalem Post, July 18, 2014
The Yankee Way: Playing, Coaching, and My Life in Baseball, by Willie Randolph. The Florida Courier, July 18, 2014
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book, by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 7, 2014
The Life of the Automobile: The Complete History of the Motor Car, by Steven Parissien. Tulsa World, July 6, 2014
A Social Strategy: How We Profit From Social Media, by Mikolaj Jan Piskorski. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 3, 2014 (the review was named “An Essential Read in Behavioral Economics”)
Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty, by Elizabeth Mitchell. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 2, 2014
But Enough About You, by Christopher Buckley. The Portland Oregonian, June 29, 2014
Mannequin Girl: A Novel, by Ellen Litman. The Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2014
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death, by Colson Whitehead. The Portland Oregonian, June 17, 2014
Liberalism: The Life of an Idea, by Edmund Fawcett. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 11, 2014
Scalia: A Court of One, by Bruce Allen Murphy. The Boston Globe, June 10, 2014
Childhood Obesity in America: Biography of an Epidemic, by Laura Dawes. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 10, 2014 (the review was named “An Essential Read in Addiction”)
Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack, by Katherine C. Mooney. The Florida Courier, June 6, 2014
A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide, by Alon Confino. The Jerusalem Post, June 6, 2014
Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America, by Donald L. Miller. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 1, 2014
James Madison: A Life Reconsidered, by Lynne Cheney. Tulsa World, May 25, 2014
Other People's Houses: How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business, by Jennifer Taub. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 20, 2014
Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters, by Michael S. Roth. Inside Higher Ed (online) www.insidehighered.com, May 15, 2014
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst, by Adam Phillips. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 12, 2014
Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of ’76, by Dan Epstein. Tulsa World, May 11, 2014
The Double Life of Paul de Man, by Evelyn Barish. The San Francisco Chronicle, May 9, 2014
The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude Van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews, by Bernard Wassersein. The Jerusalem Post, May 9, 2014
The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic, by John Demos. Tulsa World, May 4, 2014
The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe, by Yohanan PetrovskyShtern. The Jerusalem Post, May 2, 2014
The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture and Style, by Nelson George. The Florida Courier, April 25, 2014
A Fighting Chance, by Elizabeth Warren. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 22, 2014
Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change, by Jeffrey Foote, Carrie Wilkens, and Nicole Kosanke, with Stephanie Higgs. Tulsa World, April 20, 2014
American Tax Resisters, by Romain D. Huret. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 14, 2014
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 10, 2014
Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better, by Peter H. Schuck. The Boston Globe, April 9, 2014
Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s PostCrash Recruits, by Kevin Roose. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 9, 2014
We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution, by Bruce Ackerman. The Florida Courier, March 28, 2014
The Struggle for Iraq’s Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy, by Zaid AlAli. The Portland Oregonian, March 24, 2014
Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters, by Diane Jacobs. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 23, 2014
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself, by Andrew Pettegree. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, March 20, 2014
Her Honor: Rosalie Wahl and the Minnesota Women’s Movement, by Lori Sturdevant. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 16, 2014
Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of SelfLove, by Simon Blackburn. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, March 12, 2014
The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God, by Peter Watson. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2, 2014
The Americanization of Narcissism, by Elizabeth Lunbeck. Tulsa World, March 2, 2014
HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton, by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 2, 2014
Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity, by Kwame Anthony Appiah. The Florida Courier, February 21, 2014
It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, by Danah Boyd. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 18, 2014
The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI, by Betty Medsger. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 16, 2014
The Limits of Partnership: U.S.Russian Relations in the TwentyFirst Century, by Angela E. Stent. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 22, 2014
On Paper: The Everything of Its TwoThousandYear History, by Nicholas A. Basbanes. Tulsa World, February 9, 2014
Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy, by Kenneth M. Pollack. The Jerusalem Post, February 7, 2014
The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools, by Christopher A. Lubienski and Sarah Theule Lubienski. The Portland Oregonian, February 4, 2014
The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son, by Pat Conroy. The Portland Oregonian, January 27, 2014
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, by Robert M. Gates. The San Francisco Chronicle, January 26, 2014
After Civil Rights: Racial Realism in the New American Workplace, by John D. Skrentny. The Florida Courier, January 24, 2014
Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us About Right and Wrong, by George Edmonds. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 23, 2014
Unbalanced: The CoDependency of America and China, by Stephen Roach. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 21, 2014
Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA, by John Rizzo. The Boston Globe, January 15, 2014
A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: SteelTrue 19071940, by Victoria Wilson. Tulsa World, January 5, 2014
Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life, by Berel Lang. The Jerusalem Post, January 3, 2014
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools, by Diane Ravitch. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 29, 2013
Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs From Voices Around the World, by Retha Powers, Editor. The Florida Courier, December 27, 2013
Jesus: The Human Face of God, by Jay Parini. The Boston Globe, December 25, 2013
The Smithsonian’s History of America in 101 Objects, by Richard Kurin. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 22, 2013
The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City, by William B. Helmreich. The Portland Oregonian, December 22, 2013
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, by Jennifer Michael Hecht. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 16, 2013
The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams, by Ben Bradlee, Jr. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 15, 2013
Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London, and the Birth of the Modern City, by Jonathan Conlin. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 14, 2013
Report from the Interior, by Paul Auster. The Jerusalem Post, December 6, 2013
WhiteCollar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making, by Nicholas Carnes. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 4, 2013
The Explorer Gene: How Three Generations of One Family Went Higher, Deeper and Further Than Any Before, by Tom Cheshire. The Boston Globe, December 3, 2013
Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, & Branding in the Social Media Age, by Alice E. Marwick. Tulsa World, December 1, 2013
The Rejected Stone: Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership, by Al Sharpton. The Florida Courier, November 22, 2013
The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging, by Margaret Lock. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, November 19, 2013 (the review was named “An Essential Read in Aging”)
Dallas 1963, by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis. The San Francisco Chronicle, November 17, 2013
Looking for Strangers: The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood, by Dori Katz. The Jerusalem Post, November 15, 2013
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 10, 2013
Man in the Dark: A Novel, by Paul Auster. The Jerusalem Post, November 8, 2013
If Mayors Ruled The World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities, by Benjamin R. Barber. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, November 5, 2013
The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible, by Simon Winchester. The Boston Globe, November 4, 2013
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 29, 2013
The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. The Portland Oregonian, October 28, 2013
Johnny Cash: The Life, by Robert Hilburn. Tulsa World, October 27, 2013
One Summer: America, 1927, by Bill Bryson. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 27, 2013
Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, by Wendy Lower. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 22, 2013
With Charity For All: Why Charities Are Failing and A Better Way To Give, by Ken Stern. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 20, 2013
Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law, by Alan Dershowitz. The Boston Globe, October 18, 2013
The Rise of Abraham Cahan, by Seth Lipsky. The Jerusalem Post, October 18, 2013
Friendship, by A. C. Grayling. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 15, 2013
Wordbirds: An Irreverent Lexicon for the 21st Century, by Liesl Schillinger. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 14, 2013
The Good Lord Bird: A Novel, by James McBride. The Florida Courier, October 11, 2013
Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities, by Craig Steven Wilder. The Boston Globe, October 2, 2013
The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future, by Paul Sabin. Tulsa World, September 29, 2013
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays, by Kiese Laymon; Long Division: A Novel, by Kiese Laymon. The Florida Courier, September 20, 2013
Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, & Discovery, by Rachel Adams. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, September 17, 2013 (marquee quotation)
Higher Education in America, by Derek Bok. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 3, 2013
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson, by Jeff Guinn. Tulsa World, September 1, 2013
The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power, by Victor S. Navasky. The San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2013
The Joker: A Memoir, by Andrew Hudgins. The Portland Oregonian, August 25, 2013
For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law, by Randall Kennedy. The Florida Courier, August 16, 2013
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care, by Cris Beam. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, August 12, 2013 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns). Reprinted in Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 15, 2013
Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation, by Robert Wilson. The Boston Globe, August 9, 2013
Roof Life, by Svetlana Alpers. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, August 5, 2013
The Truth in Small Doses: Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer – and How to Win It, by Clifton Leaf. The Jerusalem Post, July 26, 2013
Ready For a Brand New Beat: How “Dancing in the Street” Became the Anthem for a Changing America, by Mark Kurlansky. The Boston Globe, July 26, 2013
America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal, by Michael Golay. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 23, 2013
America’s Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation, by Joshua Kendall. The Boston Globe, July 20, 2013. Reprinted in Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 20, 2013
SmallTown America: Finding Community, Shaping the Future, by Robert Wuthnow. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 14, 2013
To America with Love, by A. A. Gill. The Portland Oregonian, July 14, 2013
To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville, by Robert Cassanello. The Florida Courier, July 12, 2013
The Working Memory Advantage: Train Your Brain To Function Stronger, Smarter, Faster, by Tracy and Ross Alloway. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, July 8, 2013 (the review was named “An Essential Read in Cognition”)
Christian Nation: A Novel, by Frederic C. Rich. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 7, 2013
Sleepless in Holywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business, by Lynda Obst. Tulsa World, July 7, 2013
The Humans: A Novel, by Matt Haig. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 7, 2013
The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World Together in Commerce, by Anupam Chander. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 1, 2013
Friend of the Court: On the Front Lines with the First Amendment, by Floyd Abrams. Cornell Alumni Magazine, July/August, 2013
City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York, by Mason B. Williams; The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream, by Thomas Dyja. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 30, 2013
The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies,” by Jonathan Alter. The Florida Courier, June 28, 2013
The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences, by David Cannadine. The Portland Oregonian, June 23, 2013
All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt, by John Taliaferro. Tulsa World, June 23, 2013
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Highjacking, by Brendan I. Koerner. The San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 2013
What Changed When Everything Changed: 9/11 and the Making of National Identity, by Joseph Margulies. The Florida Courier, June 21, 2013
One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, by Lauren Sandler. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, June 12, 2013
A Change They Can’t Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America, by Christopher S. Parker and Matt A. Barreto. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 3, 2013
The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War, by Richard Rubin. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 26, 2013
Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort, by Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer. Edited by Raffaele Laudani. The Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2013
Acts of Congress: How America’s Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn’t, by Robert G. Kaiser. The Boston Globe, May 23, 2013
College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means For Students, by Jeffrey J. Selingo. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 7, 2013
Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin To Einstein: Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe, by Mario Livio. Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, May 6, 2013
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made the Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic, by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. Tulsa World, May 5, 2013
Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic, by David Caute. The Jerusalem Post, May 3, 2013
Letters to a Young Scientist, by Edward O. Wilson. The Boston Globe, April 29, 2013
The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, and A Movement, by David Graeber. The San Francisco Chronicle, April 28, 2013
The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution, by Marcia Coyle. The Portland Oregonian, April 28, 2013
Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight Against Zionism as Racism, by Gil Troy. The Jerusalem Post, April 26, 2013
The Wrath of Cochise: The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars, by Terry Mort. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 23, 2013
Who Owns the Future?, by Jaron Lanier. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 22, 2013
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order, by Benn Steil. Tulsa World, April 21, 2013
Hitler’s Philosophers, by Yvonne Sherratt. The Jerusalem Post, April 19, 2013
Born on a Mountaintop: On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier, by Bob Thompson. The Minneapolis StarTribune, April 17, 2013
Equilateral: A Novel, by Ken Kalfus. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 14, 2013
The New Mind of the South, by Tracy Thompson. The Florida Courier, April 12, 2013
AntiJudaism: The Western Tradition, by David Nirenberg. The Jerusalem Post, April 5, 2013
Middle C: A Novel, by William H. Gass. The Jerusalem Post, March 29, 2013
Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community, by Kenneth T. MacLeish. The Florida Courier, March 29, 2013
Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy, by David Sheff. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, March 28, 2013 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns) Reprinted in Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, April 2, 2013
The Art of Freedom: Teaching the Humanities to the Poor, by Earl Shorris. The San Francisco Chronicle, March 24, 2013
Why Philanthropy Matters: How the Wealthy Give, and What it Means For Our Economic WellBeing, by Zoltan J. Acs. Tulsa World, March 24, 2013
The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy, by Michael Pettis. Tulsa World, March 17, 2013
Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State, by T. D. Allman. The Portland Oregonian, March 10, 2013
Contagious: Why Things Catch On, by Jonah Berger. The Boston Globe, March 3, 2013
The Leaderless Economy: Why The World Economic System Fell Apart And How To Fix It, by Peter Temin and David Vines. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 20, 2013
The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future, by W. Patrick McCray. Tulsa World, February 3, 2013
Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson, by Barbara Ransby. The Florida Courier, February 2, 2013
I Do and I Don’t: A History of Marriage in the Movies, by Jeanine Basinger. The Boston Globe, January 30, 2013
Friendfluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are, by Carlin Flora. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 27, 2013
The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures, by Edward Ball. The San Francisco Chronicle, January 27, 2013
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expect Eyes, by Alexandra Horowitz. The Portland Oregonian, January 13, 2013
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 18611863, by James Oakes. The Florida Courier, January 11, 2013
The Story of America: Essays on Origins, by Jill Lepore. Tulsa World, December 30, 2012
Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds, by Jim Sterba. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 30, 2012
The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father’s Twentieth Century, by Margaret Talbot. The Portland Oregonian, December 23, 2012
Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives, by Amy J. Binder and Kate Wood. The Boston Globe, December 18, 2012
The Noir Forties: The American People from Victory to Cold War, by Richard Lingeman. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 16, 2012
Geronimo, by Robert M. Utley. Tulsa World, December 16, 2012
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, by David Nasaw. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 9, 2012
Back to Blood: A Novel, by Tom Wolfe. The Florida Courier, December 7, 2012
Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, and the Rule of Law, by Margaret Jane Radin. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 5, 2012
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 19451956, by Anne Applebaum. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 2, 2012
38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier’s End, by Scott W. Berg. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 2, 2012
Dear Life: Stories, by Alice Munro. The Portland Oregonian, November 25, 2012
Why Tolerate Religion?, by Brian Leiter. The Jerusalem Post, November 23, 2012
Elsewhere: A Memoir, by Richard Russo. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 18, 2012
The Great Charles Dickens Scandal, by Michael Slater. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 18, 2012
Telegraph Avenue: A Novel, by Michael Chabon. The Florida Courier, November 16, 2012
Jews and Words, by Amos Oz and Fania OzSalzberger. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, November 14, 2012
The American Circus, edited by Susan Weber, Kenneth Ames, and Matthew Wittmann. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 13, 2012
Hallucinations, by Oliver Sacks. The Portland Oregonian, November 4, 2012
The Richard Burton Diaries, edited by Chris Williams. The Boston Globe, October 30, 2012
Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics, by Daniel Stedman Jones. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, October 28, 2012
The Parties Versus The People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans, by Mickey Edwards. Tulsa World, October 28, 2012
Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, by Jon D. Levenson. The Jerusalem Post, October 26, 2012
Exam Schools: Inside America’s Most Selective Public High Schools, by Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Jessica A. Hockett. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 17, 2012
The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden, by Mark Bowden. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 16, 2012
Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad, by David Lesch. The Jerusalem Post, October 12, 2012
NW: A Novel, by Zadie Smith. The Florida Courier, October 5, 2012
Against Security: How We Can Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger, by Harvey Molotch. Barron’s Financial Weekly, October 1, 2012
The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown, by Richard L. Hasen. The Portland Oregonian, September 30, 2012
The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Healthcare Doesn’t, by William J. Baumol. The Boston Globe, September 24, 2012
Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age, by Steven Johnson. The San Francisco Chronicle, September 23, 2012
The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 23, 2012
We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860April 1861, by William J. Cooper. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 23, 2012
The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln: A Novel, by Stephen L. Carter. The Florida Courier, September 21, 2012
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, by Paul Tough. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 19, 2012 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West, by Rubén Martínez. Tulsa World, September 16, 2012
Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work, by Jeanne Marie Laskas. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 16, 2012
Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to HipHop, by Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen. The Florida Courier, September 7, 2012
On the Origins of Jewish SelfHatred, by Paul Reitter. The Jerusalem Post, August 31, 2012
Affluence & Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America, by Martin Gilens. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, August 28, 2012
Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep, by David K. Randall. The Portland Oregonian, August 19, 2012
Ascent of the AWord: Assholism, the First Sixty Years, by Geoffrey Nunberg. The San Francisco Chronicle, August 12, 2012
True Believers: A Novel, by Kurt Andersen. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 12, 2012
Some of My Best Friends Are Black, by Tanner Colby. The Florida Courier, August 10, 2012
American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 19452000, by Joshua B. Freeman. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 5, 2012
Cronkite, by Douglas Brinkley. Tulsa World, August 5, 2012
Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy, by Paul Thomas Murphy. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 5, 2012
Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street, by Neil Barofsky. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 31, 2012
The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution, by Richard Slotkin. The Boston Globe, July 27, 2012
Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II, by Arthur Herman. Tulsa World, July 22, 2012
Sincerity: How a Moral Ideal Born Five Hundred Years Ago Inspired Religious Wars, Modern Art, Hipster Chic, and the Curious Notion That We All Have Something to Say (No Matter How Dull), by R. Jay Magill, Jr. The Portland Oregonian, July 15, 2012
Superman: The HighFlying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero, by Larry Tye. Tulsa World, July 8, 2012
Wait: The Art and Science of Delay, by Frank Partnoy. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 8, 2012
The World Without You: A Novel, by Joshua Henkin. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 8, 2012
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City, by Alan Ehrenhalt. Barron’s Financial Weekly, July 2, 2012
Barack Obama: The Story, by David Maraniss. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 1, 2012
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power, by Robert A. Caro. The Florida Courier, June 22, 2012
In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible, by Michael Walzer. The Jerusalem Post, June 22, 2012
Maximum Brainpower: Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom, by Shlomo Breznitz and Collins Hemingway. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 18, 2012
Mr. President: How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive, by Ray Raphael. Tulsa World, June 17, 2012
Mudwoman: A Novel, by Joyce Carol Oates. The Florida Courier, June 8, 2012
America the Philosophical, by Carlin Romano. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 3, 2012
A Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character, by Jack Hill. The San Francisco Chronicle, May 27, 2012
The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It, by Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 21, 2012
A Disposition to Be Rich: How a SmallTown Pastor’s Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the BestHated Man in the United States, by Geoffrey C. Ward. The San Francisco Chronicle, May 20, 2012
Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States, by Michael Lind. Tulsa World, May 20, 2012
10 ½ Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said, by Charles Wheelan. The Boston Globe, May 17, 2012
Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, by George Dyson. Tulsa World, May 13, 2012
In One Person: A Novel, by John Irving. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 6, 2012
Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power, by Terri Apter. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 30, 2012 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
The Abolitionist Imagination, by Andrew Delbanco. The Florida Courier, April 27, 2012
Paper Promises: Debt, Money and the New World Order, by Philip Coggan. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 22, 2012
Calico Joe: A Novel, by John Grisham. The Portland Oregonian, April 22, 2012
When General Grant Expelled the Jews, by Jonathan D. Sarna. The San Francisco Chronicle, April 22, 2012
Promiscuous: Portnoy’s Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness, by Bernard Avishai. The Jerusalem Post, April 20, 2012
Finance and the Good Society, by Robert J. Shiller. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 10, 2012
Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship, by Richard Aldous. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 8, 2012
The Beginner’s Goodbye: A Novel, by Anne Tyler. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 8, 2012
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed Quest to Clean Up SinLoving New York, by Richard Zacks. The San Francisco Chronicle, April 8, 2012
Schmidt Steps Back: A Novel, by Louis Begley. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 25, 2012
In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age, by Patricia Cohen. The Portland Oregonian, March 18, 2012
Watergate: A Novel, by Thomas Mallon. Tulsa World, March 18, 2012
Psychology’s Ghosts: The Crisis in the Profession and the Way Back, by Jerome Kagan. The Jerusalem Post, March 16, 2012
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg. The Portland Oregonian, March 11, 2012
Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power, by Andrew Nagorski. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 11, 2012
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Haidt. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, March 1, 2012
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy, by Andrew Preston. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, March 1, 2012
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now – As Told By Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long For It, by Craig Taylor. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 26, 2012
Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, An American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing, by Jim Yardley. Tulsa World, February 26, 2012
Thinking the Twentieth Century, by Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder. The San Francisco Chronicle, February 19, 2012
Memory: Fragments of a Modern History, by Alison Winter. The Boston Globe, February 19, 2012
A Line in the Sand: The AngloFrench Struggle for the Middle East, 19141948, by James Barr. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 12, 2012
The Street Sweeper: A Novel, by Elliot Perlman. The Jerusalem Post, February 10, 2012
Money Well Spent?: The Truth Behind the Trillion Dollar Stimulus, The Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History, by Michael Grabell. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 9, 2012
Kearny’s March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 18461847, by Winston Groom. Tulsa World, February 5, 2012
Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition, by Marni Davis. The San Francisco Chronicle, February 5, 2012
Hope: A Tragedy, by Shalom Auslander. The Jerusalem Post, February 3, 2012
The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb, by Philip Taubman. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 22, 2012
The Night Swimmer: A Novel, by Matt Bondurant. The San Francisco Chronicle, January 22, 2012
The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the ‘50s, New York in the ‘60s: A Memoir of Publishing’s Golden Age, by Richard Seaver. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 22, 2012
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 8, 2012
Fraternity, by Diane Brady. The Florida Courier, January 6, 2012
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, by Charles J. Shields. Cornell Alumni Magazine, January/February, 2012
Invisible Men: Men’s Inner Lives and the Consequences of Silence, by Michael Addis. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 4, 2012 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
Room for Improvement: Notes on a Dozen Lifelong Sports, by John Casey. Tulsa World, January 1, 2012
The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry is Defining Your Identity and Your World, by Joseph Turow. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 27, 2011
The Dovekeepers: A Novel, by Alice Hoffman. The Jerusalem Post, December 23, 2011
Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero, by Chris Matthews. Tulsa World, December 18, 2011
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 18, 2011
Hitler’s Hangman: The Life of Heydrich, by Robert Gewarth. The Jerusalem Post, December 16, 2011
The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend, by Thomas Malory, a Retelling by Peter Ackroyd. The Boston Globe, December 14, 2011
This is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House, by Herman Cain. The Florida Courier, December 9, 2011
Lawtalk: The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions, by James E. Clapp, Elizabeth G. Thornburg, Marc Galanter, and Fred R. Shapiro. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 7, 2011
Civilization: The West and the Rest, by Niall Ferguson. The San Francisco Chronicle, December 4, 2011
Losing It: In Which An Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain, by William Ian Miller. Tulsa World, December 4, 2011
Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation Into War, by Steven M. Gillon. The Portland Oregonian, November 26, 2011
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War, by Tony Horwitz. The Florida Courier, November 24, 2011
Hi, My Name is Jack: One Man’s Story of the Tumultuous Road to Sobriety and a Changed Life, by Jack Watts. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, November 21, 2011 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
The Prague Cemetery: A Novel, by Umberto Eco. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 20, 2011
The Sense of An Ending: A Novel, by Julian Barnes. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 20, 2011.
Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President, by Ron Suskind. The San Francisco Chronicle, November 13, 2011
On Conan Doyle or, The Whole Art of Storytelling, by Michael Dirda. The Portland Oregonian, November 12, 2011
The Art of Fielding: A Novel, by Chad Harbach. Tulsa World, November 13, 2011
Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful, by Daniel S. Hamermesh. Barron’s Financial Weekly, November 7, 2011
Political Evil: What It Is and How to Combat It, by Alan Wolfe. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 31, 2011
Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, by Justin A. Frank, MD. The San Francisco Chronicle, October 23, 2011
The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits, by Kent Greenfield. The Portland Oregonian, October 22, 2011
The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn, by Lucette Lagnado. The Jerusalem Post, October 21, 2011
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard. The Portland Oregonian, October 15, 2011
The Virtues of Our Vices: A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness and Other Bad Habits, by Emrys Westacott. The Boston Globe, October 14, 2011
The Marriage Plot: A Novel, by Jeffrey Eugenides. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 9, 2011
How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought, by Leora Batnitzky. The Jerusalem Post, October 7, 2011
Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock, by David Margolick. The Florida Courier, October 7, 2011
Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care Reform, by Paul Starr. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 4, 2011
The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times, by Mohamed ElBaradei. Barron’s Financial Weekly, October 3, 2011
Driving Home: An American Journey, by Jonathan Raban. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 1, 2011
Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies, by Howard Wainer. Tulsa World, September 25, 2011
Virginia Woolf, by Alexandra Harris. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 24, 2011
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life, by Vivian Gornick. The Jerusalem Post, September 23, 2011
Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson, by Amanda Smith. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 20, 2011
Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy, by John Julius Norwich. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 17, 2011
American Anthrax: Fear, Crime, and the Investigation of the Nation’s Deadliest Bioterror Attack, by Jeanne Guillemin. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, September 14, 2011
The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘N’ Roll, by Preston Lauterbach. The Florida Courier, September 9, 2011
In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, by Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 6, 2011
Tough Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart, by Stefan Kanfer. Tulsa World, September 4, 2011
The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion, by Hugh B. Urban. The Boston Globe, August 31, 2011
American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation, by Michael Kazin. The San Francisco Chronicle, August 28, 2011
The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture, by David Mamet. The Jerusalem Post, August 19, 2011
The Good School: How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the Education They Deserve, by Peg Tyre. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, August 9, 2011 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, by David Brooks. Tulsa World, August 7, 2011
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and Making of Modern America, by Richard White. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 7, 2011
The TalkFunny Girl: A Novel, by Roland Merullo. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 31, 2011
Pacific Heights: A Novel, by Paul Harper. The Portland Oregonian, July 30, 2011
The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, The Anthrax Attacks and America’s Rush to War, by David Willman. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 24, 2011
Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America, by Cameron McWhirter. The Florida Courier, July 22, 2011
Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion, by Michael Levy. The Jerusalem Post, July 22, 2011
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon, by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner. The Australian, July 16, 2011
American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America, by David O. Stewart. The Kansas City Star, July 16, 2011
The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World, by Michael Spence. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 12, 2011
David Crockett: The Lion of the West, by Michael Wallis. Tulsa World, July 10, 2011
The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers, by James O’Shea. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 10, 2011
Turn of Mind, by Alice LaPlante. The San Francisco Chronicle, July 3, 2011
Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir, by Robert Jay Lifton. The Boston Globe, June 24, 2011
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, by David McCullough. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 19, 2011
La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life, by Elaine Sciolino. The Boston Globe, June 15, 2011
A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion: A Novel, by Ron Hansen. The San Francisco Chronicle, June 12, 2011
What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years, by Ricky Riccardi. The Florida Courier, June 9, 2011
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies – How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths, by Michael Shermer. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 7, 2011
Will Rogers: A Political Life, by Richard White, Jr. Tulsa World, June 5, 2011
The Road to Fatima Gate: The Beirut Spring, The Rise of Hezbollah, and the Iranian War Against Israel, by Michael J. Totten. The Portland Oregonian, June 4, 2011
Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole. The San Francisco Chronicle, May 29, 2011
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 19141918, by Adam Hochschild. The Portland Oregonian, May 27, 2011
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present, by Jeff Madrick. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 23, 2011
Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff, by James B. Stewart. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 22, 2011
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, by Erik Larson. The San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 2011
Voices from Iraq: A People’s History, 20032009, by Mark Kukis. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 15, 2011
The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel, by David Foster Wallace. The Jerusalem Post, May 13, 2011
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral – And How it Changed the American West, by Jeff Guinn. Tulsa World, May 8, 2011
Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom, by Steven Weitzman. The Forward, May 6, 2011
The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed, by Adam Bryant. Barron’s Financial Weekly, May 2, 2011
The Great Night, by Chris Adrian. The San Francisco Chronicle, May 1, 2011
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge, by T. J. English. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 1, 2011
Reading My Father, by Alexandra Styron, “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, April 28, 2011
The Company We Keep: A HusbandAndWife TrueLife Spy Story, by Robert Baer and Dayna Baer. The Jerusalem Post, April 15, 2011
A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life, by Deval Patrick. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 14, 2011
The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War, by Ben Shephard. Tulsa World, April 3, 2011
Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game, by Rob Ruck. The Florida Courier, April 1, 2011
While Mortals Sleep, by Kurt Vonnegut. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 20, 2011 (reprinted in Cornell Alumni Magazine, May/June, 2011)
Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: The Lost Dreams of my Iraqi Family, by Tamara Chalabi. The Jerusalem Post, March 18, 2011
O: A Presidential Novel, by Anonymous. The Florida Courier, March 18, 2011
Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right, by Dominic Sandbrook. Tulsa World, March 13, 2011
Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping our World, by Doug Saunders. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, March 11, 2011
Branch Rickey, by Jimmy Breslin. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 11, 2011
Romanov Riches: Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars, by Solomon Volkov. The Boston Globe, March 10, 2011
The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America, by Richard Kluger. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 6, 2011
Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage, by Douglas Waller. The Portland Oregonian, March 5, 2011
Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany, by Richard Lucas. The Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2011
How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III, by Ron Rosenbaum. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 27, 2011
Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Rise and Fall – From America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness, by Frank Brady. The Jerusalem Post, February 21, 2011
Known and Unknown: A Memoir, by Donald Rumsfeld. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 21, 2011
Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics, by John J. Mearsheimer. Tulsa World, February 20, 2011
My Father’s Fortune: A Life, by Michael Frayn. The Boston Globe, February 13, 2011
Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War, by Andrew J. Bacevich. Barron’s Financial Weekly, February 7, 2011
Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau, by Brian Walker. The Australian, February 5, 2011
The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort, by Perry Mehrling. Tulsa World, January 30, 2011
The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom 18791960, by Douglas Brinkley. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 30, 2011
Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surprising Trends That Will Reshape the Global Economy, by Daniel Altman. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, January 27, 2011
The Emotional Calendar: Understanding Seasonal Influences and Milestones to Become Happier, More Fulfilled, and in Control of Your Life, by John R. Sharp, M. D. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 27, 2011
J. D. Salinger: A Life, by Kenneth Slawenski. The Portland Oregonian, January 22, 2011 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer, by Jane Smiley. Tulsa World, January 16, 2011
The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East, by Timur Kuran. The Jerusalem Post, January 14, 2011
New Essays in American Jewish History, edited by Pamela S. Nadell, Jonathan D. Sarna and Lance J. Sussman. The Forward, January 14, 2011
Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man’s Quest to Preserve the World’s Greatest Animals, by Jay Kirk. The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 9, 2011
The Killing of Crazy Horse, by Thomas Powers. Tulsa World, January 9, 2011
Toward the Setting Sun: John Ross, the Cherokees, and the Trail of Tears, by Brian Hicks. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 9, 2011
American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt, by Daniel Rasmussen. The Kansas City Star, January 9, 2011
Thinking About Leadership, by Nannerl O. Keohane. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 5, 2011
Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power, by Robert D. Kaplan. Tulsa World, January 2, 2011
Joe Louis: Hard Times Man, by Randy Roberts. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 26, 2010
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices, by Noah Feldman. The Jerusalem Post, December 17, 2010
America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag, by Sarah Palin. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 13, 2010
My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth that Led to an American Tragedy, by Nora Titone. Tulsa World, December 12, 2010
The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb, by Allen M. Hornblum. The Forward, December 10, 2010 (cited by the National Book Critics Circle as “the exemplary review of the week”)
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 17871788, by Pauline Maier. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 8, 2010
The Secret History of MI6: 19091949, by Keith Jeffrey. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 6, 2010
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 5, 1010
History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage, by Beth S. Wenger. The Jerusalem Post, December 3, 2010
Decision Points, by George W. Bush. The Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2010
Driven West: Andrew Jackson’s Trail of Tears to the Civil War, by A. J. Langguth. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 21, 2010
My Reading Life, by Pat Conroy. The Boston Globe, November 21, 2010
Obama’s Wars, by Bob Woodward; The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad, by Tariq Ali. The Australian, November 20, 2010
Frank: The Voice, by James Kaplan. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, November 9, 2010
Why the West Rules – For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future, by Ian Morris. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, October 31, 2010
Madison and Jefferson, by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg. Tulsa World, October 31, 2010
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, by Jane Leavy. Tulsa World, October 24, 2010 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
By Nightfall: A Novel, by Michael Cunningham. The Portland Oregonian, October 23, 2010
Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion, by Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 15, 2010
Nemesis, by Philip Roth. The Jerusalem Post, October 15, 2010
A Journey: My Political Life, by Tony Blair. Tulsa World, October 10, 2010
This Is Not Florida: How Al Franken Won The Minnesota Senate Recount, by Jay Weiner. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 10, 2010
Washington: A Life, by Ron Chernow. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, October 9, 2010
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, by Steven Johnson. The Portland Oregonian, October 2, 2010
White House Diary, by Jimmy Carter. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 27, 2010
The “Good War” in American Memory, by John Bodnar. Tulsa World, September 26, 2010
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/911/Iraq, by John W. Dower. The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 26, 2010
An American Type: A Novel, by Henry Roth. The Jerusalem Post, September 25, 2010
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt, by Robert Gottlieb. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, September 24, 2010
American Caesars: The Lives of U.S. Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush, by Nigel Hamilton. The Boston Globe, September 8, 2010
Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, by John Quiggin. Barron’s Financial Weekly, September 6, 2010
The Land of Blood and Honey: The Rise of Modern Israel, by Martin Van Creveld. Tulsa World, August 22, 2010
Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law, by Gabriel Schoenfeld. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 22, 2010
Freedom: A Novel, by Jonathan Franzen. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 22, 2010
Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Jewish Right, by Benjamin Balint. The Jerusalem Post, August 20, 2010
Rich Boy: A Novel, by Sharon Pomerantz. The Jerusalem Post, August 13, 2010
Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Breakout of the Pacific War, by John D. Lukacs, The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 8, 2010
7 Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin, by James Sullivan. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 7, 2010 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired CHICAGO, by Douglas Perry. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, August 5, 2010
The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Murder and Madness in Saratoga’s Gilded Age, by Geoffrey O’Brien. The Boston Globe, August 1, 2010
Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids and What We Can Do About It, by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus. Tulsa World, July 25, 2010
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, by Matt Ridley. The Portland Oregonian, July 17, 2010
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family Feuds, by Lyndall Gordon. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 10, 2010
Twilight at the World of Tomorrow: Genius, Madness, and Murder, and the 1939 World’s Fair on the Brink of War, by James Mauro. Tulsa World, July 4, 2010
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance, by Wilbert Rideau. Tulsa World, June 27, 2010
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, by David Kirkpatrick. The Portland Oregonian, June 26, 2010
Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future, by Stephen Kinzer. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, June 25, 2010
Hitch22: A Memoir, by Christopher Hitchens. The Jerusalem Post, June 25, 2010
The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents, by Alex Butterworth. The Kansas City Star, June 19, 2010
The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City – and Determined the Future of Cities, by Joe Flood. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 16, 2010
Globish: How the English Language Became the World’s Language, by Robert McCrum. The Portland Oregonian, June 12, 2010
The Book in the Renaissance, by Andrew Pettegree. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 7, 2010
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898, by Evan Thomas. Tulsa World, June 6, 2010
Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self, by Marilynne Robinson. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 6, 2010
Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey. Tulsa World, May 30, 2010
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, by Bill Clegg. Tulsa World, May 30, 2010 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, by David Remnick. The Jerusalem Post, May 28, 2010
The Dead Republic, by Roddy Doyle. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 23, 2010
Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, by Ian Buruma. The Jerusalem Post, May 21, 2010
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, by Alan Brinkley. Tulsa World, May 16, 2010
Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court, by Jeff Shesol. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, May 9, 2010 (reprinted November 28, 2010)
Sixty to Zero: An Inside Look at the Collapse of General Motors – and the Detroit Auto Industry, by Alex Taylor III. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, May 8, 2010
Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival, by Dean King. The Portland Oregonian, May 8, 2010
Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles, by Panthea Reid. The Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2010
The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World, by Ben Wildavsky. The Boston Globe, April 29, 2010
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion, by Bettye CollierThomas. Tulsa World, April 25, 2010
The Game From Where I Stand: A Ballplayer’s Inside View, by Doug Glanville. Tulsa World, April 18, 2010 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, by David Grann. The Portland Oregonian, April 17, 2010
The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected, by Jonathan R. Cole. The Boston Globe, April 16, 2010
Kazan on Directing, by Elia Kazan. The Forward, April 9, 2010
The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University, by Louis Menand. The Boston Globe, April 6, 2010
Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War, by Ted Morgan. The Pittsburgh PostGazette and Tulsa World, March 28, 2010
The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on WellBeing, by Derek Bok. The Boston Globe, March 21, 2010
Our Hero: Superman on Earth, by Tom De Haven. Tulsa World, March 21, 2010
Backing into Forward, by Jules Feiffer. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 21, 2010
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, by Diane Ravitch. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, March 16, 2010
The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 14, 2010
Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture, by Alice Echols. Tulsa World, March 14, 2010
Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and WellBeing, by George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton. Barron’s Financial Weekly, March 1, 2010
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche, by Ethan Watters. Tulsa World, February 28, 2010
Into the Story: A Writer’s Journey through Life, Politics, Sports and Loss, by David Maraniss. The Boston Globe, February 28, 2010
The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again, by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols. The Jerusalem Post, February 26, 2010
On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System, by Henry M. Paulson, Jr. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 21, 2010
Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, by David Bianculli. Tulsa World, February 14, 2010
The Case for God, by Karen Armstrong. Tulsa World, February 14, 2010
The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr, by Ken Gormley. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 14, 2010
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a TwentiethCentury Skeptic, by Michael Scammell. The Forward, January 29, 2010
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and The National Security State, by Garry Wills. The Boston Globe, January 24, 2010
The Believers: How America Fell for Bernard Madoff’s $65 Billion Investment Scam, by Adam LeBor. The Jerusalem Post, January 22, 2010
In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History, by Michael Fellman. Tulsa World, January 17, 2010
American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, by Joan Biskupic. Tulsa World, January 3, 2010
Noah’s Compass, by Anne Tyler. The Baltimore Sun, January 3, 2010
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel H. Pink. The Portland Oregonian, January 3, 2010
FDR’s Deadly Secret, by Steven Lomazow and Eric Fettman. Tulsa World, December 27, 2009
Angler Management: The Day I Died While Fly Fishing and Other Essays, by Jack Ohman. The Portland Oregonian, December 27, 2009
Going Rogue: An American Life, by Sarah Palin. The Jerusalem Post, December 25, 2009
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jennifer Burns. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, December 20, 2009
Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5, by Christopher Andrew. Tulsa World, December 20, 2009
Last Night in Twisted River, by John Irving. Tulsa World, December 13, 2009
Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret, by Steve Luxenberg. The Forward, December 11, 2009
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff. Barron’s Financial Weekly, December 7, 2009
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, by John Milton Cooper, Jr. Tulsa World, December 6, 2009
Devil’s Dream: A Novel, by Madison Smartt Bell. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 29, 2009
Pure Goldwater, by John W. Dean and Barry M. Goldwater, Jr. Tulsa World, November 29, 2009
America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story, by Bruce Feiler. Tulsa World, November 29, 2009
Look at the Birdie, by Kurt Vonnegut. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, November 25, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Too Much Happiness, by Alice Munro. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 22, 2009
The Humbling, by Philip Roth. The Jerusalem Post, November 13, 2009
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, by James McManus. The Boston Globe, November 8, 2009
Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics, by Joyce Purnick. The Jerusalem Post, November 6, 2009
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, by Robert M. Edsel. Tulsa World, November 1, 2009
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, by Morris Dickstein. Tulsa World, November 1, 2009
City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ‘70s, by Edmund White. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 22, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. The Portland Oregonian, October 17, 2009
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, by Gail Collins. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, October 14, 2009
Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance, by Garrison Keillor. Tulsa World, October 11, 2009
American Passage: The History of Ellis Island, by Vincent J. Cannato. The Jerusalem Post, October 9, 2009
Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen, by Joe Drape. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, October 6, 2009
True Compass: A Memoir, by Edward M. Kennedy. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, October 4, 2009
The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools, by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. The Boston Globe, September 27, 2009
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President, by Taylor Branch. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, September 27, 2009
Homer & Langley, by E. L. Doctorow. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 22, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters, by Louis Begley. The Forward, September 18, 2009
You or Someone Like You, by Chandler Burr. The Jerusalem Post, September 11, 2009
The Retail Revolution: How WalMart Created a Brave New World of Business, by Nelson Lichtenstein. Barron’s Financial Weekly, September 7, 2009
Free: The Future of a Radical Price, by Chris Anderson. The Jerusalem Post, August 28, 2009
In Rooms of Memory, by Hilary Masters. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 16, 2009
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘N’ Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music, by Elijah Wald. Tulsa World, August 16, 2009 (reprinted in California Chronicle, August 16, 2009)
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture, by Ellen Ruppell Shell. Tulsa World, August 9, 2009
That Old Cape Magic, by Richard Russo. The Boston Globe, August 9, 2009
Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story, by Evan I. Schwartz. Tulsa World, August 2, 2009
The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses, by Stephen Norwood. The Boston Globe, July 26, 2009
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, by Douglas Brinkley. The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 2009
The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded From the Confederacy, by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer. Tulsa World, July 26, 2009
Touch, by Francine Prose. Tulsa World, July 26, 2009
Judaism Does Not Equal Israel, by Marc Ellis; Einstein on Israel and Zionism: His Provocative Ideas About the Middle East, by Fred Jerome. The Forward, July 24, 2009
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal, by Ben Mezrich. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 23, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Reagan’s Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster, by Martin Anderson and Annelise Anderson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 19, 2009
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, by David Kilcullen. The Jerusalem Post, July 17, 2009
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon, by Craig Nelson. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, July 17, 2009
The Devil’s Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age, by Gary M. Pomerantz. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, July 9, 2009
The Last Trials of Clarence Darrow, by Donald McRae. Tulsa World, June 28, 2009
Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev. The Portland Oregonian, June 28,2009
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T. J. Stiles. Tulsa World, June 21, 2009
The Environmental Justice, by Adam M. Sowards. The Portland Oregonian, June 21, 2009
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, by Larry Tye. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 21, 2009
Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America, by JeffreyShandler. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 21, 2009
Talking Together: Public Deliberation and Political Participation in America, by Lawrence R. Jacobs, Fay Lomax Cook, and Michael X. Delli Carpini. The Daily Kos (online) www.dailykos.com, June 20, 2009 (coauthored with Robert Spitzer)
A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent into Depression, by Richard A. Posner. The Jerusalem Post, June 19, 2009
Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music, by Greg Kot. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 15, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, by Alain de Botton. The Boston Globe, June 14, 2009
American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone, by D. D. Guttenplan. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, June 8, 2009
After Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age of New York Baseball, by Robert E. Murphy. Tulsa World, June 7, 2009
Rogues’ Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum, by Michael Gross. Tulsa World, June 7, 2009
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street, by Justin Fox. Barron’s Financial Weekly, June 1, 2009
The American Future: A History, by Simon Schama. The Boston Globe, May 24, 2009
Singin’ in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece, by Earl J. Hess and Pratibha A. Dabholkar. Tulsa World, May 24, 2009
The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement, by Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell, PhD. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 21, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 20062008, by Thomas E. Ricks. The Jerusalem Post, May 15, 2009
Pay to Play: How Rod Blagojevich Turned Political Corruption Into a National Show, by Elizabeth Brackett. The Baltimore Sun, May 10, 2009
Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century, by Barry Mazor. Tulsa World, May 10, 2009
The Day We Found The Universe, by Marcia Bartusiak. Tulsa World, May 3, 2009
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience, by Kirstin Downey. Tulsa World, May 3, 2009
The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story, by Elliott West. The Portland Oregonian, May 3, 2009
Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy, by Peter S. Canellos. The Jerusalem Post, May 1, 2009
Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend, by Paul Schneider. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 26, 2009
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life, by Gerald Martin. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 26, 2009 (reprinted in The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 17, 2009)
Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing, by Steven J. Zipperstein. The Forward, April 24, 2009
Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself, by Michael Shapiro. Tulsa World, April 19, 2009
Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee, by Allan Barra. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 12, 2009
As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires, by Bruce Weber. “Books We Like”, (online) www.npr.org, April 6, 2009
The Wall Street Journal Guide To The End Of Wall Street As We Know It: What You Need To Know About The Greatest Financial Crisis Of Our Time And How To Survive It, by David Kansas. Barron’s Financial Weekly, April 6, 2009
Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America, by Julia Angwin. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 2, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Alger Hiss and the Battle for History, by Susan Jacoby. The New York Observer, March 30, 2009
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi, by Neal Bascomb. The Portland Oregonian, March 27, 2009
So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government, by Robert G. Kaiser. Tulsa World, March 22, 2009
Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (And Redeeming Promise) Of Our Country, by William Greider. The Baltimore Sun, March 22, 2009
Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life, by Adam Gopnik. The Boston Globe, March 15, 2009
Blood & Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism, by Michael Burleigh. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 15, 2009
The Future of Liberalism, by Alan Wolfe. The Boston Globe, March 8, 2009
Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years, by Cari Beauchamp. Tulsa World, March 8, 2009
1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History, by Charles Bracelen Flood. Tulsa World, March 1, 2009
Snark, by David Denby. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 25, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future, by Will Bunch. Tulsa World, February 22, 2009
Frankly, My Dear: Gone With the Wind Revisited, by Molly Haskell. Tulsa World, February 22, 2009
A Mad Desire to Dance, by Elie Wiesel. The Jerusalem Post, February 20, 2009
Halliburton’s Army: The Long, Strange Tale of a Private, Profitable and Out of Control Texas Oil Company, by Pratap Chatterjee. The Portland Oregonian, February 13, 2009
The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch, by Michael Wolff. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, February 11, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
The Women, by T. C. Boyle. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 8, 2009
Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy From Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, by Peter W. Rodman. Tulsa World, February 8, 2009
Chicago: A Novel, by Alaa Al Aswany. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 1, 2009
Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy, by Michael Soussan. Tulsa World, January 25, 2009
How To Break A Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, To Take Down The Deadliest Man in Iraq, by Matthew Alexander, with John R. Bruning. Tulsa World, January 18, 2009
The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith and the Birth of America, by Steven Johnson. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, January 18, 2009
Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, by Fred Kaplan. The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 11, 2009
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North, by Thomas J. Sugrue. Tulsa World, January 11, 2009
The Moguls and The Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II, by David Welky. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 9, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
The Pages in Between, by Erin Einhorn. The Jerusalem Post, January 1, 2009
Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America, by Mike Huckabee. Tulsa World, December 14, 2008
Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, by John Stauffer. The Baltimore Sun, December 7, 2008
Call Me Ted, by Ted Turner with Bill Burke. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 2, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
New Deal or Raw Deal: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, by Burton W. Folsom, Jr. Barron’s Financial Weekly, December 1, 2008
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, by H. W. Brands. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 30, 2008
Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson's Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution and What It Means for America Today, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo. Tulsa World, November 30, 2008
Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, edited by Michael Lewis. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, November 23, 2008
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, by Alice Schroeder. The Baltimore Sun, November 23, 2008
War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.Mexican War, by Brian DeLay. Tulsa World, November 23, 2008
The Jewel of Medina: A Novel, by Sherry Jones. The Jerusalem Post, November 14, 2008
The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread, by Maria Balinska. The Forward, November 14, 2008
The Great Brain Suck and Other American Epiphanies, by Eugene Halton. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, November 7, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Fred Astaire, by Joseph Epstein. The Boston Globe, November 2, 2008
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, by George C. Herring. The Jerusalem Post, October 24, 2008
Some of It Was Fun: Working with RFK and LBJ, by Nicholas deB. Katzenbach. Tulsa World, October 19, 2008
The Widows of Eastwick, by John Updike. The Jerusalem Post, October 7, 2008
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – And How it Can Renew America, by Thomas L. Friedman. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, October 7, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
PhilanthroCapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World, by Matthew Bishop and Michael Green. Barron’s Financial Weekly, October 6, 2008
Planet Google, by Randall Stross. The Portland Oregonian, October 5, 2008
The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, by Jerome R. Corsi. The Jerusalem Post, October 3, 2008
Indignation, by Philip Roth. The Jerusalem Post, September 19, 2008
They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It, by Brigitte Gabriel; Against Us: The New Face of America’s Enemies in the Muslim World, by Jim Sciutto. The Baltimore Sun, September 7, 2008
Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, by Rick Wartzman. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 31, 2008
The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, by Ron Suskind. The Jerusalem Post, August 29, 2008
Liberty: A Novel of Lake Wobegon, by Garrison Keillor. The Baltimore Sun, August 24, 2008
Man in the Dark, by Paul Auster. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 24, 2008
The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman and Davis in the Mexican War, 18461848, by Martin Dugard. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 24, 2008
Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love, by Lara Vapnyar. The Jerusalem Post, August 15, 2008
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, by Andrew J. Bacevich. The New York Observer, August 11, 2008
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, by Thomas Frank. The Baltimore Sun, August 10, 2008
The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America, by Maury Klein. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, August 10, 2008
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception, by Scott McClellan. The Jerusalem Post, August 8, 2008
1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance, by Gavin Menzies. The Baltimore Sun, July 27, 2008
My Sister, My Love, by Joyce Carol Oates. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 25, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism, by Douglas J. Feith. The Jerusalem Post, July 25, 2008
The Age of Reagan: A History, 19742008, by Sean Wilentz. The Boston Globe, July 20, 2008
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do, by Tom Vanderbilt. The Pittsburg PostGazette, July 20, 2008
The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President, edited by Jeffrey A. Engel. The Baltimore Sun, July 13, 2008
Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy, by Natan Sharansky with Shira Wolosky Weiss. The Jerusalem Post, July 11, 2008
The Kingmakers: How the Media Threatens Our Security and Our Democracy, by Mike Gravel and David Eisenbach. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, July 2, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, by Mark Bauerlein. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 19, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of LikeMinded America is Tearing Us Apart, by Bill Bishop. With Robert Cushing. The Boston Globe, June 15, 2008
Only A Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul, by Kenneth R. Miller; The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, by Leonard Mlodinow; Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith, by George E. Vaillant. The Baltimore Sun, June 15, 2008
Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership, by Madeleine Albright. The Jerusalem Post, June 13, 2008
White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters From FDR to George W. Bush, by Robert Schlesinger. The Baltimore Sun, June 8, 2008
Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice, by Eric Lichtblau. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, June 1, 2008
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, by Rick Perlstein. The Portland Oregonian, June 1, 2008
Audition: A Memoir, by Barbara Walters. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 27, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
The PostAmerican World, by Fareed Zakaria. The Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2008
The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage, by Daniel Mark Epstein. The Baltimore Sun, May 18, 2008
The Man Who Loved China: Joseph Needham and the Making of a Masterpiece, by Simon Winchester. The Portland Oregonian, May 18, 2008
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, by Tony Horwitz. The Baltimore Sun, May 11, 2008
The Investor's Dilemma: How Mutual Funds are Betraying Your Trust and What to Do About It, by Louis Lowenstein. Barron’s Financial Weekly, May 5, 2008
Strange Bedfellows: How LateNight Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke, by Russell Peterson. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, May 1, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen, by Susan Griffin. The Baltimore Sun, April 27, 2008
The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country, by Laton McCartney; Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You With the Bill), by David Cay Johnston; The Age of American Unreason, by Susan Jacoby. The Baltimore Sun, April 20, 2008
Dictation, by Cynthia Ozick. The Jerusalem Post, April 18, 2008
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, by Mark Harris. The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 17, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
Worlds at War: The 2,500 Year Struggle Between East and West, by Anthony Pagden. The Baltimore Sun, April 13, 2008
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism, by Kevin Phillips. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, April 6, 2008
The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, by Parag Khanna. The Baltimore Sun, April 6, 2008
In Search of the Blues, by Marybeth Hamilton. The Boston Globe, March 23, 2008
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes. The Jerusalem Post, March 21, 2008
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, by Nicholson Baker. The Boston Globe, March 9, 2008
AmericanMade: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA When FDR Put the Nation to Work, by Nick Taylor. The Pittsburgh PostGazette, March 9, 2008
President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman, by William Lee Miller. The Baltimore Sun, February 24, 2008
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy: From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond, by Peter Gay. The Jerusalem Post, February 22, 2008
Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith & Politics After the Religious Right, by E. J. Dionne, Jr. The New York Observer, February 18, 2008
The Slave Ship: A Human History, by Marcus Rediker. The Baltimore Sun, February 10, 2008
The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World, by Tim Harford. The Baltimore Sun, February 3, 2008
Day Of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed are Tearing America Apart, by Patrick J. Buchanan. The Jerusalem Post, February 1, 2008
Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes & Asides from The National Review, by William F. Buckley, Jr. The Baltimore Sun, January 27, 2008
The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America, by Beth S. Wenger. The Baltimore Sun, January 13, 2008
Aaronsohn's Maps: The Untold Story of the Man Who Might Have Created Peace in the Middle East, by Patricia Goldstone. The Jerusalem Post, January 11, 2008
Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America, by Jonathan Gould. The Baltimore Sun, January 6, 2008
The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (On A Shag Rug) in the Seventies, by Thomas Hine. The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 6, 2008
WorstCase Scenarios, by Cass R. Sunstein. The Baltimore Sun, December 30, 2007
Trying Leviathan: The NineteenthCentury New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature, by D. Graham Burnett. The New York Observer, December 17, 2007
Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—And Why They Fall, by Amy Chua. The Baltimore Sun, December 16, 2007
Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure, by Michael Chabon. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 2, 2007
The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity, by Robert Kuttner. The Baltimore Sun, December 2, 2007
A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, by Carl Bernstein. The Jerusalem Post, November 30, 2007
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign, by Edward J. Larson. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 25, 2007
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 18151848, by Daniel Walker Howe. The Baltimore Sun, November 18, 2007
On God: An Uncommon Conversation, by Norman Mailer with Michael Lennon. The Jerusalem Post, November 16, 2007
Abraham Epstein: The Forgotten Father of Social Security, by Pierre Epstein. The Forward, November 9, 2007
God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, by Walter Russell Mead. The Baltimore Sun, November 4, 2007
Shopping for God: How Christianity Went From In Your Heart To In Your Face, by James B. Twitchell. The Baltimore Sun, October 28, 2007
King of the Club: Richard Grasso and the Survival of the New York Stock Exchange, by Charles Gasparino. The New York Observer (online) http://www.observer.com, October 23, 2007
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race, by Richard Rhodes. The Baltimore Sun, October 21, 2007
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 14, 2007
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, by David Michaelis. The Baltimore Sun, October 14, 2007
The FBI: A History, by Rhodri JeffreysJones. The Baltimore Sun, October 7, 2007
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by John J. Mearsheimer and Stepehn M. Walt. The Jerusalem Post, October 3, 2007
In A Cardboard Belt! Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage, by Joseph Epstein. The Boston Globe, September 30, 2007
Head and Heart: American Christianities, by Garry Wills. The Baltimore Sun, September 30, 2007
Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path of Power, by Marcus Mabry. The Jerusalem Post, September 28, 2007
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, by David Halberstam. The Baltimore Sun, September 23, 2007
The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty, by Wilfrid Sheed. The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 23, 2007
Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life, by Anthony T. Kronman. The Baltimore Sun, September 16, 2007
Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy, by Charlie Savage. The Baltimore Sun, September 9, 2007
A Secular Age, by Charles Taylor. The Baltimore Sun, September 9, 2007
The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe, by Greg Behrman. The Baltimore Sun, August 26, 2007
Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into The Bard, by Jack Lynch. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 21, 2007
The Politics of Heaven: America in Fearful Times, by Earl Shorris. The Baltimore Sun, August 19, 2007
Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea, by Richard Kluger. The Baltimore Sun, August 12, 2007
Capital Ideas Evolving, by Peter L. Bernstein. Barron’s Financial Weekly, August 6, 2007
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, by Amity Shlaes. The Baltimore Sun, August 5, 2007
The Gravedigger's Daughter, by Joyce Carol Oates. The Jerusalem Post, August 3, 2007
Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World, by Dennis Ross. The Baltimore Sun, July 29, 2007
Attendant Cruelties: Nation and Nationalism in American History, by Patrice Higonnet. The Baltimore Sun, July 22, 2007
The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation, by Drew Westen. The Baltimore Sun, July 15, 2007
Stealing Lincoln’s Body, by Thomas J. Craughwell. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 2007
Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency, by William C. Harris. The Baltimore Sun, July 8, 2007
Mere Anarchy, by Woody Allen. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 5, 2007
The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars, by Robert D. Hormats. The Baltimore Sun, July 1, 2007
Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower, by Zbigniew Brzezinski. The Jerusalem Post, June 29, 2007
The Life of Kingsley Amis, by Zachary Leader. The Baltimore Sun, June 24, 2007
The Clarks of Cooperstown, by Nicholas Fox Weber. The Baltimore Sun, June 17, 2007
Ralph Ellison, by Arnold Rampersad. The Baltimore Sun, June 10, 2007
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 17891989, by Michael Beschloss. The Baltimore Sun, June 3, 2007
FDR, by Jean Edward Smith. The Baltimore Sun, May 27, 2007
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA, by George Tenet (with Bill Harlow). The Jerusalem Post, May 25, 2007
Freedom’s Power: The True Force of Liberalism, by Paul Starr. The Baltimore Sun, May 20, 2007
Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry, by Holly GeorgeWarren. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 20, 2007
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power, by Robert Dallek. The Jerusalem Post, May 18, 2007
A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War, by Scott Nelson and Carol Sheriff. The Baltimore Sun, May 13, 2007
The Road to Disunion: Secessionists Triumphant 18541861, by William W. Freehling. The Baltimore Sun, May 6, 2007
Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels, by Jill Jonnes. The Baltimore Sun, April 29, 2007
Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture, by Jon Savage. The Boston Globe, April 22, 2007
ColorBlind Justice: Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality, by Mark Elliott. The Baltimore Sun, April 22, 2007
What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War, by Chandra Manning. The Baltimore Sun, April 15, 2007
Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 19481961, by James L. Baughman. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 8, 2007
The Silence of the Rational Center: Why American Foreign Policy is Failing, by Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke. The Baltimore Sun, April 8, 2007
Imperfect Presidents: Tales of Misadventure and Triumph, by Jim Cullen. The Baltimore Sun, April 1, 2007
The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian, by Heather Ewing. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 1, 2007
At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches, by Susan Sontag. The Jerusalem Post, March 30, 2007
Presidential Power: Unchecked & Unbalanced, by Matthew Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg. The Baltimore Sun, March 25, 2007
Lincoln’s Smile and Other Enigmas, by Alan Trachtenberg. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 11, 2007
The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, by Dinesh D’Souza. The Jerusalem Post, February 23, 2007
A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now, by Peter Wood. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 2007
Calvin Coolidge, by David Greenberg. The Baltimore Sun, February 11, 2007
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, by Chalmers Johnson. The New York Observer (online) http://www.observer.com. February 7, 2007
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy, by Barbara Ehrenreich. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 4, 2007
Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, The Crisis That Shocked the Nation, by Elizabeth Jacoway. The Baltimore Sun, February 4, 2007
The Averaged American: Survey, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public, by Sarah Igo. The Baltimore Sun, January 28, 2007
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present, by Michael Oren. The Baltimore Sun, January 14, 2007
The Foundation: A Great American Secret: How Private Wealth is Changing the World, by Joel Fleishman. The Baltimore Sun, January 7, 2007
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, by Barack Obama. The Jerusalem Post, January 5, 2007
Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History, by Deborah R. Weiner. The Forward, January 5, 2007
Mellon: An American Life, by David Cannadine. Barron’s Financial Weekly, January 1, 2007
On the Wealth of Nations, by P.J. O’Rourke. The Baltimore Sun, December 31, 2006
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Love, Their Work, by Susan Cheever. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 31, 2006
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism, by Robert D. Richardson. The Boston Globe, December 24, 2006
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, by Jimmy Carter. The Jerusalem Post, December 22, 2006
The Emotion Machine: CommonSense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence and The Future of the Human Mind, by Marvin Minsky. The Baltimore Sun, December 17, 2006
The Conference on Beautiful Moments, by Richard Burgin. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 17, 2006
The Wicked Son: AntiSemitism, SelfHatred and the Jews, by David Mamet. The Baltimore Sun, December 3, 2006
George Gershwin: His Life and Work, by Howard Pollack. The Baltimore Sun, November 26, 2006
Patriotism and Other Mistakes, by George Kateb. The New York Observer (online) http://www.observer.com. November 15, 2006
The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder, by Daniel Stashower. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 12, 2006
Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, The Untold Story of an American Legend, by Scott Reynolds Nelson. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 5, 2006
Dangerous Nation: America’s Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, by Robert Kagan. The New York Observer (online) http://www.observer.com. November 1, 2006.
A Glorious Disaster: Barry Goldwater’s Presidential Campaign and the Origins of the Conservative Movement, by J. William Middendorf II. The Baltimore Sun, October 29, 2006
What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education, by Michael Bérubé. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 22, 2006
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, by Neal Gabler. The Baltimore Sun, October 15, 2006
Fortunate Son: The Life of Elvis Presley, by Charles L. Ponce de Leon. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 8, 2006
A WellPaid Slave: Curt Flood’s Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports, by Brad Snyder. The Baltimore Sun, October 8, 2006
Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball, by Alan Klein. Barron’s Financial Weekly, October 2, 2006
A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth Century New York, by Timothy Gilfoyle. The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 17, 2006
Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting, by Aviel Rubin; Does American Democracy Still Work?, by Alan Wolfe; Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles For a New Political Debate, by Ronald Dworkin. The New York Observer (online): http://www.observer.com. September 13, 2006
Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer, by C. S. Monaco. The Forward, September 1, 2006
There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 19451975, by Jason Sokol. The Baltimore Sun, August 27, 2006
Friendship: An Expose, by Joseph Epstein. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 27, 2006
Empire & Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond, by Rock Brynner. The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 20, 2006
Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death, by Deborah Blum. The Baltimore Sun, August 13, 2006
The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for Justice, by Chad Millman. The New York Observer (online): http://www.observer.com. July 12, 2006
Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America, by Tom Lutz. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 2, 2006
Nearest Thing to Heaven: The Empire State Building and American Dreams, by Mark Kingwell. The New York Observer (online): http://www.observer.com, June 28, 2006
Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair, by Anthony Arthur. The Boston Globe, June 18, 2006
Uncommon Carriers, by John McPhee. The Baltimore Sun, June 11, 2006
Terrorist, by John Updike. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 4, 2006
The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, by Leigh Montville. The Boston Globe, June 4, 2006
Possible Side Effects: True Stories, by Augusten Burroughs. The Baltimore Sun, May 21, 2006
Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq, by Stephen Kinzer. The New York Observer (online): http://www.observer.com, May 3, 2006
Conversation: A History of a Declining Art, by Stephen Miller. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 30, 2006
Saving South Beach, by M. Barron Stofik. The Forward, April 14, 2006
A Life That Matters: The Legacy of Terri Schiavo—A Lesson for Us All, by Mary and Robert Schindler with Suzanne Schindler Vitadamo and Bobby Schindler; Terri: The Truth, by Michael Schiavo with Michael Hirsh. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 9, 2006
Manliness, by Harvey C. Mansfield. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6, 2006
American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn, by Ted Steinberg; Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping, by Judith Levine; The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies, by Muriel R. Gillick. The Boston Globe, March 26, 2006
Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, by Michael Rosenthal. The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 12, 2006
Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America, by Philip Jenkins. The New York Observer (online): http://www.observer.com, March 8, 2006
Is Rock Dead?, by Kevin J.H. Dettmar. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 21, 2006
Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America, by Eyal Press. The Baltimore Sun, February 19, 2006
Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve, by Sandra M. Gilbert. The Boston Globe, February 5, 2006
American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville, by BernardHenri Lévy. The New York Observer, January 30, 2006
The Cold War: A New History, by John Lewis Gaddis. The New York Observer, January 9, 2006
Elia Kazan: A Biography, by Richard Schickel. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 22, 2005
Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, by Peter Guralnick. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 4, 2005
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, by Barbara Ehrenreich. The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 13, 2005
Henry Adams and the Making of America, by Garry Wills. The Boston Globe, November 13, 2005
What Goes Up, by Eric Weiner. Barron’s Financial Weekly, November 7, 2005
Melville: His World and Work, by Andrew Delbanco; Mark Twain: A Life, by Ron Powers. The Boston Globe, September 18, 2005
The King of the Jews, by Nick Tosches. The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 8, 2005
The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century, by Steven Watts. The New York Observer, August 15, 2005
Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, by Elizabeth Royte. The Boston Globe, July 3, 2005
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights, by David Reynolds. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 3, 2005
Harvard Rules: The Struggle for the Soul of the World’s Most Powerful University, by Richard Bradley. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 12, 2005
Jewish Life in SmallTown America: A History, by Lee Shai Weissbach. The Forward, May 13, 2005
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer And The Secret City of Los Alamos, by Jennet Conant. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 9, 2005
Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It, by Alan Wolfe. The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 1, 2005
The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan, by John Ehrman; Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s, by Gil Troy. The New York Observer, March 28, 2005
The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood, by David Thomson. The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 27, 2005
Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America, by Newt Gingrich; Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from A Controversial Life, by Michael Medved; It’s My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America, by Christine Todd Whitman. The New York Observer, February 14, 2005
John James Audubon: The Making of an American, by Richard Rhodes. The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 16, 2005
Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp, by Steven Lubet. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 26, 2004
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, by Anne Norton. The New York Observer, November 1, 2004
Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical, by Andrea Most. The Forward,
October 15, 2004
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book, by Gerard Jones.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 10, 2004
Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America, by Thurston Clarke; High Noon In The Cold War: Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Max Frankel. The New York Observer, October 4, 2004
Why The Electoral College Is Bad For America, by George C. Edwards III. The New York Observer, September 20, 2004
Sore Winners (and the Rest of Us) in George Bush’s America, by John Powers. The New York Observer, August 2, 2004 (and a Letters to the Editor exchange between Joe Conason and me, August 16, 2004)
Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates In the Golden Age, by Marcus Rediker. The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 4, 2004
Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876 by William Rehnquist. The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 18, 2004
Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education by David Kirp. The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 28, 2003
Something for Nothing: Luck in America, by Jackson Lears. The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 19, 2003
Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind, by Gerald Graff. The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 15, 2003
May the Best Team Win: Baseball Economics and Public Policy, by Andrew Zimbalist. Barron’s Financial Weekly, June 2, 2003
Universities in the Marketplace, by Derek Bok. Barron’s Financial Weekly, April 7, 2003
“Short and Sweet,” The New York Review of Books, May 29, 1980 (coauthored with Murray Steinberg)
“History Revised; The Boss as Saint,” The Ithaca Journal, January 29, 1977
“Henry on the Couch,” The Ithaca Journal, December 4, 1976